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JUNE 9, 2025

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 2, 2025

I had initially considered other sorts of DIY seismometers, and I was put off by how large and ungainly they were. Most DIY seismometers use a magnet and coil to sense motion as the moving magnet induces a current in the fixed coil. Hertz) is low enough to make it better at sensing distant earthquakes.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2025

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 27, 2025

The website American Trucks has conducted some research on vehicle repairs, focusing in particular on a kind of DIY repair revolution. As seems to be the case lately, some of the more interesting findings concern Tesla. First of all, the standout point regarding Tesla is probably that it ranks 3rd.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2025

Dear DIY EV community, I am working on a conversion to create a BMW 2002e in celebration of the first electric BWM from 1972. My aim is to meet the 50th anniversary of this visionary vehicle in 2022. My story is that I believe in EV's and have a strong connection to the BMW 1602/2002.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 11, 2025

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

continued] The post The Cybertruck Ain’t Got Nothin’ On This DIY Cyberbike appeared first on CleanTechnica. You either loved it or hated it, and it seemed like most EV enthusiasts loved it. But by now, after all of the various quirks and flaws.

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Electrek

MAY 27, 2022

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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Electrek

MARCH 12, 2022

Most of the weird electric vehicles I find each week on Alibaba for this column are fun to imagine driving, but they box you into a single odd product. Maybe you get an electric horseless carriage , or an electric backyard train , or an electric house-on-wheels. But there’s not much creativity in that, now is there?

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Hybrids and electrics need maintenance, too Electric and hybrid vehicles are not just a trend; they’re the future of automotive technology. Plus, don’t forget a battery charger.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

liter Atkinson-cycle engine that, when combined with the electric motor, delivers 191 horsepower and 155 lb-ft (210 N·m) of torque mated to a continuously variable transmission driving the front wheels. It features an in-house-designed and manufactured electric traction motor. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 8, 2025

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Electrek

JUNE 28, 2022

Here at Electrek we love DIY projects. And electric bikes. 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.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 22, 2021

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. ​ Jeep builds a DIY-style Wrangler EV.

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JUNE 11, 2025

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Electrek

JULY 17, 2022

Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’d love an electric bicycle, but it’d be even more convenient if the battery fit into my pocket”? And the UK-based e-bike conversion kit company Swytch made it happen with the newest edition of the brand’s easy to use electric bike conversion kit. Ok fine, but lots of people actually have.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 21, 2021

Hello everyone, I have an electric motor at home. 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. I am a person who loves to find, learn and explore. Thanks everyone.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2019

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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Electrek

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. 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.

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Electrek

MAY 5, 2023

As many of my regular readers will know, nearly two years ago I set out on a saga to buy an electric mini-truck from China. more… The post After I bought a $2,000 electric mini-truck from China, these DIY upgrades made it great appeared first on Electrek.

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Electrek

JULY 24, 2022

Last month we featured an awesome DIY solar cargo trailer that an Electrek reader built for his electric bike. Just in case you needed any more proof that our readers are some of the handiest and most clever eco-DIYers on the planet, we’ve got another impressive solar powered electric bike to show you.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And now a new kit allows handy folks to build their own replica, although this time, it’s electric! 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.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. Fast forward a dozen years.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Toward the back of the bench rests a hot-air gun and a soldering station, as well as my bag of other electrical tools. 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.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 30, 2025

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2024

Among other things, I can control lights and outlets, monitor the status of various appliances, measure how much electricity and water I’m using, and even cut off the water supply in the event of a leak. Over the last few years, I’ve added a fair amount of smart-home technology to my house.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The proliferation of e-bikes started with easy-to-install conversion kits that allowed riders to take their existing bicycle and convert it into an electric bike. Now, electric boats are charting a similar path. TEMO’s easy-installation electric outboard motors make it painless for boaters to convert their vessels into electric boats.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 23, 2025

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Electrek

JANUARY 18, 2024

The proliferation of e-bikes started with easy-to-install conversion kits that allowed riders to take their existing bicycle and convert it into an electric bike. Now, electric boats are charting a similar path. TEMO’s easy-installation electric outboard motors make it painless for boaters to convert their vessels into electric boats.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 26, 2022

I scrounged a 6-millimeter-diameter plastic tube, which I put into the chuck of an electric drill and wound a few hundred turns of 32-gauge magnet wire around it. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. And that was the only hard-to-obtain item I needed. Power comes from an external USB battery.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2011

For those of you who don't know, we have an electric car conversion wiki which has tons of info for beginners and pros. Some of the members here will find this obvious but I've spoken with several people recently who had no idea that we have such a fantastic resource built up.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. The 10-tonne truck is the largest pure electric vehicle on the road in Ireland. This represents some 250,000 cars, vans and trucks on Irish roads over the coming years.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2022

Therefore, we selected materials that maintained high electrical conductivities, such as silver-based inks for our electrodes. “[They] require pixels and conductive interconnects that maintain good performance under large mechanical deformations,” Su explains. There is plenty of work yet to be done to improve this technology, of course.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2020

If you like DIY projects, Volkswagen has an offer that might interest you. The automaker is letting visitors to its "glass house" factory in Dresden, Germany, help build e-Golf electric cars. As of now, visitors to the factory can get hands on at up to five stations on the e-Golf assembly line, VW said in a press release Tuesday.

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