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Is it Possible to Retrofit an Old Car with an EV Drivetrain?

Clean Fleet Report

A new or used EV might be an easier choice If you’re undeterred and want to proceed with a conversion anyway, keep in mind that certain types of cars lend themselves to the process better than others. Likewise, lighter vehicles make better candidates for conversions given that less weight translates into greater range.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Ignoring the “burning fuel” option as anathema to the objectives of a magazine about EVs, the remaining two options—a resistive heating element and a heat pump—are both used in EVs. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in the IEEE is currently 50 percent off for the rest of the year, giving you access to perks, including Spectrum Magazine and lots of education and career resources. So go to IEEE.org/join to get started.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it. I know these folks.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? — Kaare Nilsen 2. In the U.S.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. E.ON’s Mr. Ewert says one winning technology could be biogas, which can be fermented from farm and domestic waste or even sewage, and then be piped through existing gas networks.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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