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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Months after I left, Google changed its mind.

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The Plan for the Waiheke EV

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I bought Gavin Shoebridge's EV Secret's book, Kia Ora mate! after looking it up on google maps, and working out all the distances I'm likely to need to cover, there's really no need for me to have a range of more than 30km. and am starting down the path. The first thing the ebook I bought said to do was plan. The island is small.

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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DIY Guru is an example for electric vehicle training and skillset development institute. The blog is monetized using affiliate links, contextual advertisements, online courses, and e-books. The Google search drives the lion’s share of traffic to the blog. You can also start a training center for. 5 Retrofitting.