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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". While loitering along, experimenting with the controls, I was passed by a college student on a mountain bike who must have thought this gray-bearded old-timer on a four-decade-old 12-speed was huffing and puffing. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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All-Season Tires For The Tesla Model 3 To Keep Things Simple — Turned Out To Be Safe & Cheap

CleanTechnica EVs

Back in November 2019, I wrote about my choice to replace the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 originally fittet on my Tesla Model 3 with all-season Michelin CrossClimate+ tyres (I recommend reading that article to learn more about my choice of tyre size etc.). After 30 months and 85,000 km (53,000 miles), these tires were ripe […].

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Will cheaper gas slow Tesla's surge?

Green Car Reports

In a recent Barron's article, two Wall Street analysts said they believe electric-car adoption is now largely decoupled from gas prices. While some customers may be turned away by cheap gas, "the overall. One good reason to buy an electric car is to save money on fuel, so will low gas prices slow down Tesla sales?

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Does The Chevy Bolt Have “Huge Sales” Now?

CleanTechnica EVs

CNN Business recently published an article titled “The Chevy Bolt’s huge sales prove America is craving a cheap electric car.” ” It caught my attention since I track auto sales, and especially electric vehicle sales, very closely.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

By about the middle 2010s, these cars began appearing en masse in the boneyards I frequent , so many that I thought about doing a Minipocalypse article on the subject (along the lines of the Subiepocalypse and 240calypse pieces I wrote for this publication). They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". While loitering along, experimenting with the controls, I was passed by a college student on a mountain bike who must have thought this gray-bearded old-timer on a four-decade-old 12-speed was huffing and puffing. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

Green Car Congress

Overall, the new battery system is “ very scalable, cheap, and much safer ” than lithium-air batteries, Li says. Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16111 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.111. The carbonate they use as the liquid electrolyte in this battery “ is the cheapest kind ” of electrolyte, he says. 2016.111.

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