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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. But I was in a hurry and simply mounted on the handlebars a Drok meter , which I had purchased for an earlier bicycle-based battery-charging project.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. But I was in a hurry and simply mounted on the handlebars a Drok meter , which I had purchased for an earlier bicycle-based battery-charging project.

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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

Green Car Congress

The agreement provides for an initial purchase of 500MW of SOEC units and is expandable to up to 5GW over the lifetime of the agreement. These projects will be the world’s first commercial-scale, green ammonia production facilities with operation planned for 2025. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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Tesla Semi will be incredibly affordable with US’ revamped EV tax credit

Teslarati

Long-range all-electric trucks like the Tesla Semi will not come cheap. While the bill’s extension of the $7,500 tax credit for consumer electric vehicles may be compelling, it is still important to note that heavy-duty commercial vehicles also stand to gain from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

The Truth About Cars

In 1984 GM completed a deal to purchase a company called Electronic Data Systems, or EDS. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. The board approved a purchase of all of Perot’s stock for $750 million ($2.1B To make his dreams come true, Smith put the company’s money where his mouth was. Smith forked over $2.5

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. If a substantial amount of solar or wind energy is on the grid, customers would be able to save money by purchasing and storing electricity during low-rate times.

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SpaceX to launch Varda Space’s first Rocket Lab-derived ‘space factory’ satellite

Teslarati

While far from the commercial orbital laboratory many at NASA would like to paint it as, the joint NASA-Russia International Space Station (ISS) routinely hosts payloads from paying customers, some of which are focused on manufacturing (albeit at an absurdly low volume) materials that can only be made in microgravity (i.e.

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