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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

Clean Fleet Report

The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. However, the immediate costs for the conversion kits, accessories and installation service can range from $7,000 to $20,000, making it reasonable only if you plan to keep your car for a while. See more at E Magazine.

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Is it Possible to Retrofit an Old Car with an EV Drivetrain?

Clean Fleet Report

Several companies, including Electric GT , Legacy EV and EV West , now manufacture conversion kits. See more at E Magazine. Even GM and Ford are getting in on the act with the recent release of so-called crate engines (sic) that car owners (or their mechanics) can easily swap into the engine bays of corresponding models.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: Home PowerMagazine : While not an EV magazine, they do have a regular EV section. Nuts& Volts Magazine : For the serious gadgeteer. Nice folks. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. Alltronics American Science& Surplus B.G. Fair RadioSales Co.:

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. The 100 m.p.g. Right Now can be seen here. Both Ford Motor Co.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

The two chips have about the same area and use the same 1-micrometer CMOS technology then under development at the company’s systems production and manufacturing plant in Hillsboro, Ore. And that resulted in a manufacturable and reliable part instead of a test chip for a whole bunch of new circuitry.”

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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

Drive EV

Manufacturers were not warned of this change and have unsurprisingly have not taken this decision well. 3 is set to become the people’s electric car with ample range, interior space equivalent to the class above and all the kit you will ever need. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

In 1969 Xerox had just bought Scientific Data Systems (SDS), a mainframe computer manufacturer. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970.

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