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Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR with new natural-fiber composite body kit

Green Car Congress

The Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR will tackle this year’s Nürburgring 24-hour race featuring a complete body kit made of natural-fiber composite materials for the first time. Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR with new natural-fiber composite body kit: Racing cars with body parts made of renewable raw materials.

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Ashwoods Launches Hybrid Drive Retrofit Kit for Light Vans and Stop-Start Retrofit Kit

Green Car Congress

UK-based Ashwoods Automotive , a provider of hybrid-electric vans and hybrid drive systems, is offering a hybrid drive retrofit kit for panel vans. Ashwoods says that its Stop/Start Module is suitable for most light commercial vehicles, including panel vans such as the Ford Transit and car-derived vans like the Vauxhall Combo.

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Used Car of the Day: 1993 Toyota 4Runner

The Truth About Cars

There's a two-inch lift kit, reupholstered interior, and LED lighting. Get the latest& news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our& newsletter. There are lockers front and rear and Warn manual locking hubs in front, and off-road-ready bumpers.

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Car modifications in India: What is legal and what’s not

Baua Electric

However, not all car modifications are permitted by the law of the land. In fact, performing some weird modifications to your car may lead you to legal trouble. Hence, if you are planning to modify your car, make sure not to do anything that may compromise the safety of everyone in and around the vehicle.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Garage Lighting?

The Truth About Cars

After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. Bolts fly off into dark corners, never again to see the light of day, and I am certain there is a goblin somewhere that takes all my 10mm sockets and spirits them away to another dimension. &

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Bidirectional Charging Management (BCM) research project gets green light; tying in renewables

Green Car Congress

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. The research project will run for three years under the aegis of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

Cars That Think

To help users achieve more applications in education, Elephant Robotics has also launched AI Robot Kit , a robotic kit that integrates multiple functions like vision, positioning grabbing, and automatic sorting modules. The software is very friendly for new robotics users who have yet to gain programming experience.

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