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Daimler forms electrified coach project ELCH

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Requirements for long-range transport, flexibility in use, battery charging on the go, high payloads and the space required for passengers and luggage are indispensable and in part contradictory. This will be recorded systematically for the first time in the project and serve as a reference dimension for the design of the drivetrains.

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Tesla rogue mechanic goes full “Mad Max” in insane rebuild

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A reference to the iconic dystopian film franchise invokes images of large, brutally designed off-road machines traversing a barren wasteland. This is not just a Model 3 with a lift kit. This meant that a good number of parts from the vehicle, especially its interior, were still in mint condition. Credit: Rich Rebuilds/Twitter.

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6G Terahertz Devices Demand 3D Electronics

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The chip design is called FinFET (for “fin field-effect transistor,” where “fin” refers to the shark-fin-like vertical electron channel). Roozbeh Tabrizian, University of Florida “We definitely got inspired [by FinFETS],” says Tabrizian.

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. The parts are high quality and the instructions take the user through the process step by step. I often refer people back to specific pages when they have questions about their own conversions.

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A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

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John Linsley Hood class-A design from the 1970s (usually referred to as a JLH class-A ). SDS-250 Power Amplifier Kit from C lass D Audio and put it into a second cabinet identical to the case holding my pre-amp. You can definitely use. I also skipped tone control in the name of providing as pure a path for the audio as possible.

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

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The speech writer later said that neither he nor McColough had a specific definition of the phrase. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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But this long-deferred move into the booming market in reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) was more of a shock, in part because it broke with Intel’s tradition of compatibility with earlier processors—and not least because after three well-guarded years in development the chip came as a complete surprise. Integer core.

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