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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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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

Cars That Think

How a DIY radio kit launched Henry Samuelis career Samuelis path toward becoming one of todays key players in digital communications started 33 years ago, when he was a seventh grader. Finally, he brought the assembled kit to school, the teacher plugged it in, and it worked. Required to take a shop class at his West Hollywood, Calif.,

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Security With a Spectrometer

Cars That Think

What if it could be used to unlock the phone by scanning, say, one’s skin tone—or rather, personal spectral signature? For my prototype, I plugged the spectrometer breakout board into a small breadboard, along with a Start button and the extremely capable Arm Cortex–based Teensy 4.0. My part of the experiment?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We

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You Can't Do That!!! (the day the dreamers "grow up")

DIY Electric Car

Below is a picture and video of Brian Sauve the person who donated our first donor car, Brian dream originally was to convert this same car to electric but time does run away. Plugging in at work would not only reduce my need for full range from 150 km (93.21 Here he had just drove the car onto the car trailer for us (Uhaul rocks).

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Road Test: 2022 Ford Maverick XL FWD EcoBoost

Clean Fleet Report

The Maverick EcoBoost was not designed to be a heavy-duty work truck, but more for the weekend warrior/home owner doing DIY projects or used for active lifestyles for activities such as biking and kayaking. We came away impressed with what Ford had created. That was in October 2021. Your first truck. Back To the Future Success Story.

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Arc 1 Conversion Journal 10/1/2013 Big EV Grin

DIY Electric Car

I typically plug it in every time I come home, and unplug it to leave. I like to use 1st and 2nd personally. I am not a very good documentarian. My car is the ARC 1 over in the garage section of the forums, for anyone who wants to take a look. This car has continued to exceed my expectations. I have never run out of juice.