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looking for inwheel hub motors

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DIY Electric Car Forums posts 552K members 94K Since 2007 A forum community dedicated to DIY electric car owners and enthusiasts. If one motor decides to do something else than requested the car will be un controllable to you need to be able to detect that very quickly and intervene.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. There are also videos on Youtube where people change the pack the DIY way or the individual modules, but be aware to only buy individual modules from a trusted source.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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Smith Electric Vehicles Delivers First Battery-Electric Truck into Ireland

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Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. In January 2009, the government of Ireland announced a target of 10% of all vehicles to be powered by electricity by 2020.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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My Conversion status as of 2009-10-09

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Have removed exhaust. Fuel system, found centricity for shaft, and done general maintenance of rig. Next will buy motor, and mount. getting excited.

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This New Site

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Did someone refer you to an article Elon Musk wrote for us back in 2009? We're also starting something we call Spectrum Collections, curated bundles of our articles on specific topics that showcase our most popular Hands On DIY projects, say, or a menagerie of the world's most influential CPUs.

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