Electrek

JANUARY 14, 2023

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. The post Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more appeared first on Electrek.

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Cheap Honda Mercury Electric Motorcycles 72

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

liter engine, from the same family that powered the Mazda Miata and Mercury Capri. Cars of a few decades ago seem cheap by today's standards, but note that the automatic transmission and A/C—which come at no extra cost in nearly all the most miserable 2023 econoboxes—added the 2023 equivalent of $3,352 to the bottom-line cost of this car.

Ford 90

Ford Mazda Mercury Denver 90

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 28, 2023

The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s. That includes nearly two dozen 1964-1973 Ford Mustangs and Mercury Cougars , plus some fascinating European machinery.

Dodge 98

Dodge Chrysler North Dakota Colorado 98

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As I write this, I’m sipping my third cup of Kroger-branded “Breakfast Blend” coffee, brewed via a cheap Mr. Coffee maker. I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age.

Hyundai 89

Hyundai MPG Mercury Hawaii 89

Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past.

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Fuel Gasoline San Jose San Francisco 100

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. It’s only sand.”

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Engine Design Personal Production 112