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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around the world, with one of the most common secondary uses being watertight storage units. Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. According to Howard, Rickard’s YouTube channel EVTV Motor Werks has received over 3 million hits, a majority on 507 DIY electric vehicle (EV) and other EV-related videos that Rickard produced over the 12 years he ran the company.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car.

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Happy IEEE Day!

Cars That Think

IEEE Day celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. On this day, we IEEE Members acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful advancements in engineering and look forward to sharing more ideas for the betterment of humanity. Happy IEEE Day! Happy IEEE Day!

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

The way a Braille cell works is there’s as many as six dots arranged on a two-by-three grid. It’s got anywhere between like 14 and 80 cells. So, I guess I need to explain what a cell is. Depending on the permutation of those dots, that’s what the letter is. So, if it’s just a single dot in the upper left space , that’s the letter a.