Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. He'd been selling kits for his mount in small numbers. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Fast forward a dozen years. OK boomer," indeed.

DIY 145

DIY Conversion Cheap Motor 145

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. He'd been selling kits for his mount in small numbers. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Fast forward a dozen years. OK boomer," indeed.

DIY 98

DIY Conversion Cheap Motor 98

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. In 2000, IBM began selling M-Systems’ 8-MB storage devices in the United States under the less-than-memorable name DiskOnKey. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Singapore 2000 Store IDEA 143

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

Grid 47

Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58