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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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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. milliwatts.

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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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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. Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. as stated.

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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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