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

Baua Electric

Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. 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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Solar Power for Sheds and Electric Car Charging Solutions

Setec Powerr

– Self-Sufficient: Solar power eliminates the need for cumbersome extension cords and provides off-grid independence. – On-grid Systems: Can be interconnected to the local electrical grid, allowing you to potentially sell back excess solar energy produced. . It’s a sustainable green energy solution.

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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

More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. Much earlier in the chapter’s history, member Otmar Ebenhoech, who would go on to create the Villa DC Motor Controller, made a strong impression on the DIY community using DC motors. “Tesla licensed the technology.”

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car. Yet the hard cold reality is that unless we begin to move to grid electricity for most driving, none of the the other fuels will ever stand a chance of contributing to the end of the petroleum era. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to offer solutions.

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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.