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Electric Golf Carts Are All The Rage

CleanTechnica EVs

Lithium-ion batteries are becoming a popular option for electric golf carts.

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Jay Leno on Elon Musk & EVs: “I think he should get a certain amount of credit for leading the charge”

Teslarati

Tesla is the leader of the EV market and is the best-selling type of battery-electric vehicle. I emphasize battery electric since BYD recently topped Tesla in the market with sales of both battery electric and hybrid EVs. For this article, I’m focusing only on battery-electric vehicles.

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Ioxus Introduces 1,000-, 3,000- and 5,000-Farad Ultracapacitor Cells with Higher Power Densities

Green Car Congress

Ioxus EDLCs can be used as sole energy storage devices or can be combined with other types of energy storage devices, such as batteries or fuel cells, to meet the user power demand requirements. Ioxus sees this series as serving smaller, golf-cart type vehicles and utility vehicles, as well as for engine starting, Hall said.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting. Clean air and clean water are on everyone’s minds right now,” Douglass said, explaining that city officials have been hard at work adapting alternative energy sources. “And

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Steiner, a retired IBM Systems Engineer who is now servicing EV trucks and other commercial vehicles for a battery manufacturing company, launched Waverley Electrics as an April Fools joke in 2011. “I It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US.

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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

However, they also feature a connected mobile command unit, an adjustable ride height and built-in quick-charge batteries with a charging capacity of 100 to 150 kilowatts. This vehicle relies on two lithium-ion battery packs and can even act as a mobile power source during power outages and natural disasters. Opinion: New U.S.

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More Tools (i.e. toys.)

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

tools) Most of my battery management research has been done at work using the equipment there, so I decided to bring the experiments home and analyze them with a cheap analog oscilloscope ($390 from Frys). I regret not taking more photos, but things look pretty clean. You know what that means: Time to buy toys! (er.

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