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For Sale: em57 leaf motor couplers

DIY Electric Car

Being there was no good way to adapted to the motor shaft, I spent a good long time designing this coupler. For Sale: em57 leaf motor couplers. As a result i got a small batch of them made and still have a few left for any one interested. gen 2 leaf motor (EM57) shaft coupler. untested on gen 1 leaf.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

Cars That Think

Unlike Sox, our robot dogs are real and for sale! The robot is designed to carry its own magnet, which it alternately retracts and repels. The programmable robot dogs run on Arduino with the open source quadruped framework OpenCat. Learn programming, robotics & AI while making your robot the hero in the playground! GRASP Lab ].

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

MazdaB-2600 : a nice pickup conversion MazdaMiata : Bill Theeringer project Manx Dunebuggy : Scottsbuggy, bike, and Comutacars Maxion: Max HallsCommutamatic II leaning 3 wheeler MercuryCapri : Uve has a great EV design calculator on his page. (No PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Road Noise Cancellation and Engine Order Cancellation systems will provide vehicle manufacturers with the ability to greatly improve in-cabin refinement, with additional design opportunities for optimising vehicle weight reduction and fuel economy. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I wish the thing was for sale as-is. The first one was the Zytek design you mentioned, but this is a 2nd "new and improved" design from Tesla, with more power, higher speed and greater range. Well they did give brief bursts of acceleration through the parking lot to show that it does have some Roadster goodness to it.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Forcing companies to conform to standardized batteries prevents them from designing better cars. A rectangular pack design could be installed horizontally for "under-floor" mounting, or installed vertically for "tank" mounting in the trunk or under the hood. Think of a battery in laptops. Follow us on Twitter!