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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. All the commercially available freeway-capable (70 mph) EVs are priced way out of reach for the average consumer.

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GM to acquire Cruise Automation to accelerate autonomous vehicle development

Green Car Congress

The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility. The three-year old startup developed an aftermarket kit allowing buyers to convert certain cars into autonomous vehicles for highway driving. —Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise Automation.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar! One of the best reproductions of the Elf is Lee Hart's US $89 Membership Card kit , which compresses an Elf into two circuit boards that fit into a Altoids tin. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

One company that’s hoping to reduce our battery anxiety is Exeger , which wants to enable self-charging devices that convert ambient light into energy on the go. So our solar cell can convert any light energy to electrical energy. We can print anything we want, and it will also be converting light energy to electric energy.

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

Cars That Think

That’s because Worldcoin , the company behind the project, wants to create the most widely and evenly distributed cryptocurrency ever by giving every person on the planet the same small allocation of coins. What would happen if they gave every person on the planet an equal share of a new cryptocurrency? Bitcoin since they launched.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Wireless charging is nothing new— Charged has covered wireless EV charging since at least 2011—but it may be that its true value is only coming into focus now, as more and more commercial and transit fleets are electrifying. Charged : Can you give us a brief company history? Charged : So, the same charging station will work for all vehicles?

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels. While a research manager at Intel Corp., in Rochester, NY.

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