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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. We were never going to break into that old boys’ club. It connected to your phone. But it worked.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Rio S 5-door Hatchback

Clean Fleet Report

Low-cost but not cheap. All the right connections. This well-built small car should not be considered “cheap” as some people see that as meaning poorly built. Excellent fuel economy, nice styling, low price and an excellent warranty. Drivetrain. The front-wheel drive 2022 Kia Rio is powered by a 1.6-liter Safety and Convenience.

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Super FET working Comments on Sykro Controller

Open Source Civic EV Kit

It seems that I had a loose connection between the potbox and the controller. As I've mentioned before, the big solution to this is to use the factory TPS instead of a cheap forklift potbox (like a Curtis PB-5 or PB-6). This weekend is the biggest day of the year for our local EV club.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Think of them as a giant fan club and focus group. You really have to package together something that allows you.to

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

EV Central

We don’t know if the Ioniq 6 will introduce remote connectivity – allowing activating climate control or checking the charge status from your phone – as found in Teslas, for example. They’re a big improvement on the Ioniq 5’s slightly cheap looking and feeling doors. Generous, to say the least.

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Upcyling a 40-year-old Tandy Model 100 Portable Computer

Cars That Think

Thanks to the work of the Club 100 user group , I was able to tap into a universe of software written for the Model 100 (also known as the M100). I was able to identify the faulty component, and rather than attempt to find a new replacement, I bought a cheap, broken M100 that was being sold for parts on eBay.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

The group took as its founding principle that the challenges involved in building a crewed spacecraft on the cheap are all engineering problems that can be solved, one at a time, by a diligent team of smart and dedicated people. So on that small prototype, I had to sew 972 connections. I first made a 1.24-meter-diameter

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