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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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But I was in a hurry and simply mounted on the handlebars a Drok meter , which I had purchased for an earlier bicycle-based battery-charging project. So I poured on the juice and blew past him, thereafter maintaining Tour de France speed. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.".

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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But I was in a hurry and simply mounted on the handlebars a Drok meter , which I had purchased for an earlier bicycle-based battery-charging project. So I poured on the juice and blew past him, thereafter maintaining Tour de France speed. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.".

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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