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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. It took her four years, but she was finally able to afford the tuition for the language courses, which cost thousands of U.S. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. We have sponsored the EAA-PHEV project and our Open-Source designs are being used by some of the private companies as well as technically advanced individuals. So far, most start as hybrids.

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