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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. I always knew I wanted to be a specialist: a person that others would go to because they knew something really well,” she says.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I suspect that the correct plug will be of a twist-lock design as is typical of many higher voltage and amperage plugs used in commercial service and for industrial equipment. Perhaps you should have checked that before posting. as stated. 5 Clayton B. Cornell said on April 20th, 2009 at 4:43 am Emily, thanks for spell checking for us.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Boris now conducts research on bioengineered substitutes for the pancreas; Anna is a writer and a designer. A person who requires insulin must walk a tightrope. If it falls too low, the person may faint; if it rises too high and stays elevated for too long, the person may go into a coma. In January 2008, the U.S.

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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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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

MazdaB-2600 : a nice pickup conversion MazdaMiata : Bill Theeringer project Manx Dunebuggy : Scottsbuggy, bike, and Comutacars Maxion: Max HallsCommutamatic II leaning 3 wheeler MercuryCapri : Uve has a great EV design calculator on his page. (No RileyEnterprises : Electric and hybrid DIY plans. No picturesof his car yet though.)

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. At this point it was 2008, and AMPbot was scheduled for release in early 2009, but that was not to be. At this point it was 2008, and AMPbot was scheduled for release in early 2009, but that was not to be. The product was to be named A.M.P.,