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Tesla fan creating ‘CyberRoadster’ using Model 3 Performance parts in epic DIY build

Teslarati

A Tesla owner is taking his hobby and love for electric vehicles to new levels by creating what could only be described as one of the coolest EV-related DIY projects to date. Despite this, seeing the Tesla owner’s DIY journey on such an epic build is more than satisfying. You end up with a two-seater CyberRoadster.

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This DIY kit lets you build your own street-legal tiniest car in the world

Electrek

more… The post This DIY kit lets you build your own street-legal tiniest car in the world appeared first on Electrek. The Peel P50, produced in the early 1960s, was the smallest production automobile in the world. And now a new kit allows handy folks to build their own replica, although this time, it’s electric!

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DIY Tesla Wrap — Our Tesla Model X “Stormtrooper” Gets The Blues

CleanTechnica EVs

Check out our DIY Tesla wrap, and what we learned along the way. Short story: a DIY Tesla wrap is not as easy as it may look, but we did it!

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Wheel-E Podcast: RadTrike, $150 DIY 6-seater e-motorbike, solar electric boat camper & more

Electrek

This time that includes the newly unveiled RadTrike, 1,500W e-bike, a $150 DIY 6-seater e-motorcycle, a solar-powered electric boat that converts into a camper and lots more. The post Wheel-E Podcast: RadTrike, $150 DIY 6-seater e-motorbike, solar electric boat camper & more appeared first on Electrek.

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Weekend Project: Build your own DIY electric bike for under $500

Electrek

If you know anything about me or the topics I cover, you’ll know two of my biggest hobbies revolve around electric bicycles and DIY projects. But the ability to repurpose that bike gathering dust in your garage or build the exact e-bike of your dreams means that a DIY option is a still a great choice for many riders.

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Jeep builds a DIY-style Wrangler EV

DIY Electric Car

​ Jeep builds a DIY-style Wrangler EV. From Road&Track: Jeep Builds an Electric Wrangler With a Stick Shift for Easter Jeep Safari. The 2021 Easter Jeep Safari concept trucks are here, and they start with Magneto: A Wrangler Rubicon with an electric drivetrain.

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Check out this guy’s awesome DIY solar-charging electric bike utility trailer

Electrek

Here at Electrek we love DIY projects. The post Check out this guy’s awesome DIY solar-charging electric bike utility trailer appeared first on Electrek. The post Check out this guy’s awesome DIY solar-charging electric bike utility trailer appeared first on Electrek. And solar power. And electric bikes.

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Swytch shows off first pocket-sized electric bike battery for DIY e-bike conversion kit

Electrek

The post Swytch shows off first pocket-sized electric bike battery for DIY e-bike conversion kit appeared first on Electrek. I got the chance to see the new kit in person at Eurobike a few days ago and even take a couple quick test laps on a bike equipped with the updated kit.

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This amazing DIY electric Jeep is the coolest electric car you’ll see all week

Electrek

more… The post This amazing DIY electric Jeep is the coolest electric car you’ll see all week appeared first on Electrek. It’s only Sunday and technically the week has just begun. But I can already pretty much guarantee you that this homemade electric Jeep is the coolest electric car you’ll see all week.

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: A DIY build-your-own electric car kit!

Electrek

The post Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: A DIY build-your-own electric car kit! appeared first on Electrek.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Cars That Think

So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

Cars That Think

And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing? Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

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How to make a diy electric car?

DIY Electric Car

Hello everyone, I have an electric motor at home. I am a person who loves to find, learn and explore. So I wanted to try my best by making an electric car myself. So I want to ask everyone who can show me how to make an electric car. Thanks everyone.

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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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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

Cars That Think

I’ve not used my DIY magnetometer to search for any submarines or alien monoliths, but I did test it using a steel hammer, which affects the readings in an obvious way when placed within about a meter of the sensor board. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. supporters are counting down until the historic day when an amateur astronaut will climb aboard a homemade rocket and wave goodbye to Earth, ready to take a giant leap for DIY-kind.

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DIY MG ZS EV Mod Provides Superb Regen Braking & More

CleanTechnica EVs

Yesterday, I was invited back to the cluttered but always exciting electronics and engineering workshop of Francisco Shi. He unveiled his breakthrough saying: “If Elon Musk tried this modified MG ZS EV, he would tell his minions to go and modify the Tesla. An all-wheel-drive Tesla and a track with this technology would be amazing!” […]

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Tesla Cybertruck Will Come With DIY Scratch Removal Solution

InsideEVs

Design boss Franz von Holzhausen confirmed Cybertruck owners will be able to remove scratches by simply buffing them out.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. With no guarantees on how long any given instrument might last, you have to deploy a lot of them to get the data you need.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

Cars That Think

I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. James Provost. Then things got more complex. Yes, my solder squid is made out of concrete , via a 3D-printed mold—though that last refinement is perhaps optional.

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These YouTubers Made DIY Airless Tires

CleanTechnica EVs

Automakers and tire companies have been trying to deliver airless tires for decades. While it would be great to not suffer from flats, the challenges of coming up with something that both grips and doesn’t have air inside has proven more challenging than people thought at first. But what if it’s not as hard as […].

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$3,000 DIY electric Mini Cooper is a fun exception among conversions

Green Car Reports

The 2020 Mini Cooper SE offers an all-electric powertrain from the factory, but YouTuber Rich Benoit took a different path to an electric Mini. Benoit's Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel gained popularity focusing on Tesla rebuilds, but recently its star has been branching out. As documented in a series of videos, he bought a non-running.

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Weekend Project: I added a solar panel to my electric mini-truck to charge from the sun

Electrek

With a bit of DIY magic, I was able to outfit my Chinese mini-truck with a solar panel that can trickle charge it from the sun. The electric mini-truck that keeps on giving has another fun trick up its sleeve. more… The post Weekend Project: I added a solar panel to my electric mini-truck to charge from the sun appeared first on Electrek.

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3D-Printed OLEDs Enable DIY  Screens Nearly Anywhere

Cars That Think

LCDs may be the mainstay of consumer displays, but when it comes to picture quality, including high contrast ratio, brighter colors, and wider viewing angles, OLEDs have the edge.

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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

Green Car Congress

Maverick’s FLEXBED gives customers organization and storage solutions to secure cargo, while accommodating Ford accessories and creative DIY solutions. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. Five standard drive modes include Normal, Eco, Sport, Slippery and Tow/Haul to enhance performance and confidence over various driving conditions.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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Tesla Cyber-Roadster DIY Project Is Sure To Turn Heads

InsideEVs

This guy is transforming a dual-motor Tesla Model 3 into a Cyber-Roadster, and the project is taking shape rather nicely.

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Weekend Project: This guy made an electric bike snowplow out of garbage

Electrek

But since the bike paths hadn’t been plowed, he turned his e-bike into a DIY snow plow using leftover parts to go get his fix. They say that necessity is the mother of invention. And one Canadian man had a serious need for Vietnamese takeout.

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Tesla Model 3 transformed into DIY electric pickup

Green Car Reports

Waiting and waiting for more details about the upcoming Tesla Pickup—the “cyberpunk truck”—or concerned that it’s going to be too big when it arrives? You could essentially build your own. That’s what San Francisco YouTube star Simone Giertz did, from a Tesla Model 3. In the project, which declares it’s.

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Build Your Own Smallest Car In The World With This Peel P50 DIY Kit

InsideEVs

The street-legal kit car is available with a variety of engine choices, including electric.

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Do-It-Yourself Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

“I love Teslas,” says Graeme, owner of Oz-DIY Electric Vehicles, “they make great spare parts!” Graeme knows a lot about cars, both fossil fueled cars (ICE cars) and EV. He was the chairman of Australian Electric Vehicles Association Queensland for 7 years.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

Cars That Think

Physical activity is essential to both physical and mental health, something brought home to many people following sedentary pandemic lockdowns. Even without the lockdowns, many parts of the world have been facing an obesity epidemic, which has created a need to help people manage their weight.

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With two solar panels and one afternoon, I made my electric bike charge from the sun

Electrek

DIY solar power projects have always been fascinating to me. I kind of on the subject. And since electric bikes have always been a huge part of my life, combining the two has always seemed inevitable. And so with a pair of solar panels and one afternoon to kill, I rigged up a simple solar-powered electric bicycle setup that is easy to build.

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HHO Booster: A DIY Fuel Cell Conversion?

Electric Cars are for Girls

The makers of these devices are claiming it will increase your gas mileage to 100 mpg or more. How cool is that? It's not.)

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EV Transmissions Are Awesome!

CleanTechnica EVs

Since then, we’ve seen a number of EVs and plugin hybrids that use a transmission, and the advantages that were mathematically predictable (as well as known from the DIY EV scene that predated mass EV production) became a reality. Just over two years ago, I wrote an article discussing upcoming EV transmissions.

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DIY Electric Car Highlights and Progress

DIY Electric Car

The DIY website has been going under some pretty impressive changes and has included some pretty interesting threads over the past few months, but with over 3000 members and an average of 400 new threads a week there is a lot of content to go over.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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Watch This Guy Electrify His Bike To Tow A DIY Camper Trailer

InsideEVs

Will a massive, homemade battery pack and a 1,000W hub motor do the trick?

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Order book opens for Swindon Powertrain’s High Power Density (HPD) EV system

Green Car Congress

The reaction underlines the firm’s belief that both enthusiast DIY mechanics and niche OEMs are woefully underserved by traditional suppliers or must resort to scavenging parts from scrapped electric cars.

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Wheel-E Podcast! Volcon electric mopeds, solar-charging e-bikes, electric unicycles & more

Electrek

This time that includes an unexpected unveiling of a new electric moped-style bike, new dirt jumper e-bikes from ONYX, an ultra high-speed electric unicycle, testing anti-lock brakes for electric bikes, a DIY solar-charging electric bike, Gogoro hitting a major milestone for electric motorcycle battery swapping, and lots more.

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Check Out This Salvage Tesla Model 3 DIY Overland Build Series

InsideEVs

This salvage Model 3 turns out to be an awesome Overlanding car. Watch and learn how they pulled it off.

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: Solar-powered 2-seat e-bike with infinite range

Electrek

Two of my passions are electric bicycle projects and DIY solar powered projects. In fact I’ve written the book on both topics. So to see these two fields combined in one quirky-yet-awesome product totally made my week.

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Battery Recycling, DIY EVs &The First F-150 Lightning: EV News Jun 24, 2022

InsideEVs

Check out our weekly dose of interesting EV-related stories you may have missed.

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