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This Chinese electric car is almost entirely windows

Baua Electric

One of my favorite parts of perusing Alibaba for fun and outlandish electric vehicles is seeing just how creative the designers can become. The rear units look like they’re barely a hand wide and the front is perhaps half of that again, but the designers definitely weren’t about to spend a penny more on body panels than they had to.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

Like Paul MacCready’s original design for the Impact that established the world’s lowest drag coefficient of.195, Like Paul MacCready’s original design for the Impact that established the world’s lowest drag coefficient of.195, At the end of this article, Prof.

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Why this electric ‘car’ the size of two motorcycles should be on your list

Baua Electric

I’m talking about Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) , the official term for what many people call Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). As long as they meet the regulations and can be certified as street legal, they’re allowed on nearly any road in the country that has a posted speed limit of 35 mph (56 km/h) or less.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. But Bradley thought the article was fine in telling the basic details of his story. and they said, “Hey, we’re ready to see you.”

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. It’s designed to be easily maintainable, swappable. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. This article appeared in Issue 60: April-June 2022 – Subscribe now.