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25 Must-Have Accessories for Electric Vehicles

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Emergency Roadside Kit Preparing for unexpected situations is important for any vehicle owner, including EV owners. An emergency roadside kit typically includes items like jumper cables, a tire repair kit, reflective triangles, a flashlight, and a first aid kit.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. That’s why the approach is called synthetic-aperture radar.

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

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Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. I modified the wiring in the original 914 AC kit (as suggested by Paul Jorg) to turn on the regen when the brake lights came on instead of controlling regen by releasing the accelerator pedal.

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Cummins chooses Hythane OptiBlend system for retrofitting dual-fueled power on drilling rigs

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The Optiblend kit displaces diesel with natural gas (up to 70%) or other alternative fuels, without modifications to the internal components or the stock fuel management system. Hythane’s testing allows them, as dealers of aftermarket equipment, to document and demonstrate the expectations described by the EPA. Background.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Even today, he said, he receives laser-printed documents from universities in which he can recognize the Dover typefaces.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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“If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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For calculations and formulae, you may refer NPTEL course, then you may get some information from IEEE I guess.😊 If you are planning to use ADVISOR tool in MATLAB then the help documents of the software would also be helpful. . #5 Thanks a lot… Can you suggest sites from where I can collect data for ideas given by u??

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