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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. Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

IoTIZER is a prototype of a mechanical hijacking device (MHD), designed to replace human manipulation of existing products. Part of the project involved putting some prototypes in the homes of potential users. As one user commented, "I think it is easy, because I can do it while looking at the product.

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Stuff We Use: Toolboxes & Worktables

The Truth About Cars

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have purchased with our own meager income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. &

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

The Truth About Cars

The two-door was a credibly rakish personal luxury coupe for its time, and probably cannibalized some sales from the Cordoba. Another problem with the 1977-1981 LeBaron was its all-too-obvious resemblance to its cheap Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury siblings. Worth restoring? Lighter, leaner, with a young aggressive style.

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

Green Car Congress

The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours. They plan to develop the craft for guidance by GPS or camera technology, controlled by an operator wearing first person-view goggles.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Hyundai to launch a new electric mini-SUV at €20K

Baua Electric

The best part, the price is aimed at that elusive yet coveted €20,000 range (about $21.5K). The car is expected to go into production in July. The new Casper joins a flood of small, cheap EVs landing in Europe , including Renault’s electric Twingo and Citroën’s ë-C3, not to mention new models coming from BYD and SAIC’s MG Motors.

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