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DAIHEN leverages WiTricity wireless charging technology for solar-powered mobility demo in Japan

Green Car Congress

at Expo Park in Osaka, Japan, to showcase next-generation mobility services using a small electric vehicle, similar in size and functionality to a golf cart, and a solar-powered wireless charging system, provided by DAIHEN. DAIHEN recently launched a demonstration with Kansai Electric Power Co.

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Calif. Energy Commission approves energy efficiency rules for battery charger systems; automotive chargers exempted

Green Car Congress

This exception does not apply to autoettes, electric personal assistive mobility devices, golf carts, or low speed vehicles. The rules cover larger battery charger systems; small battery charger systems; inductive charger systems; and battery backup and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), both consumer and non-consumer.

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Hauling Lead and Confusing Connections

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

These high-capacity 8-volt golf-cart batteries are 70 pounds apiece. I couldn't find a good solution with the copper bars supplied by ElectroAuto, so I just took my best guess and gave it a shot. I got this battery strap at a Yamaha golf cart dealer. Here are the supplied fusible links. And the rear box.

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Don't let those batteries just sit around

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The 8-volt golf cart batteries arrived over 24 days ago and have just been sitting on the garage floor, discharging. I'm also going to replace the #2 gauge wire that came in the crate with 2/0 cable from United Welding Supply to help carry supply current more efficiently. Next up: Tapping into the 914 fuse block.

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Nickel expert calls on Musk, Farley, others to demand Nickel sourcing in North America

Teslarati

Musk pledged a massive contract to any company that could supply nickel to Tesla , as long as it was sourced efficiently and sustainably. Musk eventually landed a nickel supply deal with Minnesota-based Talon Metals in January. “We used to refer to LFP cells as ‘golf cart batteries,'” he said.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

Setec Powerr

Light electric vehicles: electric bicycles, golf carts, electric wheelchairs, etc. Transportation power supply. Lithium iron phosphate battery single cell life is long, about 2000 times, but the lithium iron phosphate battery group life is generally short about 500 times. Scope of use. Scope of use. Power storage power.

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A closer look at humidity control methods for EV electronics

Charged EVs

Potting should only be a last resort, and it only tends to make sense in very cost-sensitive devices that aren’t considered worth repairing (such as a golf-cart motor controller, which is where I’ve seen it used the most in the EV field).

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