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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries.

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ICL researchers develop new membrane-based system for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

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—Professor Andrew Livingston of Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering. —Co-author Dr Ji Hoon Kim, also of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Another benefit of low-ethanol biofuels is that the majority of conventional combustion engines are already equipped to use this type of fuel.

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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

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Ford says it is using the Unreal Engine 3D platform that is used in computer gaming. We were also given the chance to use the available drift brake – which is available with both engines, including with manual-transmission GTs. It used to be about style for the base cars and cheap speed for the more-powerful ponies.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

Part of that is due to the way electric drivetrains help break the mold of aging design constraints, but it’s also due to a new wave of forward-thinking engineers boldly pushing products in new and exciting directions. The post Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats?

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

Cars That Think

is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. Gerard Piccini Member grade Student member; member of IEEE-HKN’s Lambda Nu chapter University: University of Scranton in Pennsylvania Major: Electrical engineering Minors: Math and physics Grade: Junior Another of his passions is robotics.

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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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The BYD Atto 3 and MG4 are great, but there is one cheap Chinese electric vehicle that’s not quite there yet…. Opinion

EV Central

I recently spent a week in the GWM Ora, a car that would have made even Saab’s semi-suicidal engineers blanche in fear. It would be fair to mention at this point that the GWM Ora is cheap, very cheap, just about the cheapest EV money can buy. I don’t know, even after a week together, what most of them mean.

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