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Smith Electric Vehicles Delivers First Battery-Electric Truck into Ireland

Green Car Congress

Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. This provides a top speed of 50 mph (80 km/h) and a range of 100 miles (160 km) on one battery charge.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

In addition to Creative Greenius you’ll find these great EV Driven blogs: DIY Electric Car. Click on the links and you can see that Electric Car Blog talks about MPH. I am both humbled and flattered to be part of this impressive network of people who all focus on the EV topic. Electric Car Blog. Electric Cars are for Girls.

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Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

Clean Fleet Report

We did a bit better on a 120-mile freeway run with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph, achieving 28.1 Selecting the Sport mode for that extra oomph helped turn 0-60 mph in about 6.3 torque comes on at 1,700 rpm and pulls through 4,000 rpm to easily negotiate highway onramps and passing big rigs.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

On the highway at around 130 km/h (80 mph) , we get by with about 5.3 There are also videos on Youtube where people change the pack the DIY way or the individual modules, but be aware to only buy individual modules from a trusted source. In our commute, that consists of 60% highway, 40% city, we get around 4.6

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The best electric skateboard conversion kits

Green Authority

However, if you love skateboarding and thought of how to convert a skateboard to electric, there are DIY electric skateboard conversion kits available in the market today. Vestar E-Skateboard DIY Kit. You will get a pair of 750-watt high-torque motors out of the box, that will give you a top speed of 25 mph. See the Revel Kit.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

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. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. Otmar was one of our first speakers,” said Pohorsky. “He

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mostly finished-90%

DIY Electric Car

I have now had 4 test drives to a distance of 15 miles round trip and speed up to 60 mph without mishap or any sign of trouble. After a section of hard run I pull over and thoroughly inspect all components of the system and have yet found any hot spots or areas of concern.