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Cars That Think
JUNE 22, 2022
So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. My interest in gamma-ray spectroscopy came from my physics studies. V the SiPM needs.
Plugs and Cars
OCTOBER 27, 2007
Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. It also spreads doubt about the enviro bona fides of plug-ins. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car.
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Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. How did it all start? We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. It was time to buy our first car. This criteria only left the Prius in play.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. These range from about one cycle per second (1 hertz) down to a fraction of a cycle per second. was, in fact, a small earthquake.
DIY Electric Car
JANUARY 4, 2013
It's applaudable to see so many plug-in vehicles on the roads. Here's a scenario philisophis electricus: You are beyond the range of no return. but at the public charge; it's a shock. You pull into your strategic public charger to find it occupied by, let's say a Volt. You can not get home, the Volt of course, can. Do you unplug it?
DIY Electric Car
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
We have had a few road tests, trying to find the actual range per charge. and taking about 6 hours to charge @ 10amps per charger from a standard 115 volt ac plug rated at 15 amps. miles) The range and speed performance is not bad for used UPS (uninterrupted power supply) batteries from a computer back up system.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity.
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