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A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide

Clean Fleet Report

A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Essential Tools for Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Understanding which quality mechanics tools and other essential supplies you need is the first step in DIY maintenance.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Participants installed the IoTIZER on a range of products, including consumer appliances and devices as well as various items around the home, including a recliner and a door lock. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home. Well, I can just put it there and check.".

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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

The members of EAA San Joaquin Valley (EAASJV), largely held back from holding in-person events since the chapter’s founding in 2019 due to the pandemic, were determined to make their 2022 Drive Electric Earth Day event a rousing success. We shared ideas on how to do that; personally, I read a book about marketing.”

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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It’s nearly impossible to find a household today that doesn’t have at least one connected smart home device installed. It redefined the home security space by introducing wireless, DIY products and pioneered giving customers the ability to monitor their homes via a smartphone app.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It As an example, Freund referenced an EAASV history highlight, Tesla CTO J.B. Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We

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Volt Blocher

Honda S2000 EV Conversion

Here is a picture of them installed in the car. This looks much cooler in person but thought I'd add a shot with most of the cells now shunting. Dimitri and Jim have ordered their DIY kits and will hopefully have them up and running soon. I named them Volt Blocher. I needed to make 45 units for my setup.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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If you think about the blind person, you know having a mouse isn’t very useful because they can’t see where the pointer is. Everything that a sighted person can see visually, you can hear aurally with a screen reader. And I would have had to do a lot more work to find specialists who would install it on my computer for me.