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Electric Supercar

DIY Electric Car

I will definitely reach out to the forum for advice along the way. My plan is to have a Tesla drive train. I am sourcing from EV-West. Hopefully that was a good company to partner with. I am waiting on batteries until the build is further along. I am also documenting in YouTube. Feel free to follow along.

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A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

Cars That Think

November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. In commercial product development, an optimized microcontroller would be the way to go, but for my DIY project, a Pi was perfect.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

Cars That Think

It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). Shamlian: We're definitely targeting Create 3 at a higher age level than something like Root. I think our hope is that the robot will be accessible to high school students as well as postdocs.

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Opinion: Cars and Toxic Substances

Clean Fleet Report

While driving a car cannot expose you to asbestos, working or repairing a car definitely can. Mechanics, hobbyists and people who repair cars as DIY projects can be exposed to asbestos–especially when they clean the brakes of older cars—but EPA has advice on how to avoid exposure. Careful with brake work.

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EV advocacy, provincial style 

Electric Auto Association

VEVA membership was originally comprised of folks into DIY EV conversions, but now leans toward LEAF and Tesla owners. chapters today, “Not only have we changed our name from VEAA to VEVA, but we are definitely agnostic about the form of electric transport,” Constantine said. Again like U.S.

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2024 Kia Sorento Review

Baua Electric

inch high-definition displays, one each for the instrumentation and infotainment systems. Inside, the Sorento now features a 4.0-inch inch multifunction LCD digital display on S, Sport and Sport + trim grades designed to replace the outgoing model’s analogue instrumentation. High grade GT-Line variants score a dual 12.3-inch

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2024 Kia Sorento Review

Baua Electric

inch high-definition displays, one each for the instrumentation and infotainment systems. Inside, the Sorento now features a 4.0-inch inch multifunction LCD digital display on S, Sport and Sport + trim grades designed to replace the outgoing model’s analogue instrumentation. High grade GT-Line variants score a dual 12.3-inch

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