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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association. My goal is to create a Civic EV conversion kit with open-source tools and open-source designs/documentation so that the most people can benefit from it. This blog is the story of my path towards that goal. Damn the torpedoes.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

The Truth About Cars

.& If you live somewhere that recently introduced new traffic cameras, driving fines ( e.g. congestion charging ), lower speed limits, bicycle rental kiosks, or additional bike lanes, there’s a good chance the person making those decisions was influenced by Vision Zero. The motivation for the study came out of a simple need, Miner said.

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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway

Baua Electric

As a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent person, I take road trips every year and have learned some tips and tricks along the way. The hotels have been reviewed in person by trained assessors; only those that meet the criteria are listed.

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How USB Came to Be

Cars That Think

USB ports now are standard on personal computers and are built into many other electronic devices such as smartphones, eBook readers, and game consoles. The IEEE Oregon Section sponsored the nomination. In Pappas’s 2019 Fast Company interview, he said that once Nye did so, the team sent a document to various destinations to print. “We

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

This included the folks at the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association, the motor control engineers at my work (HP), the communities at 914world.com, the other 914 EV conversion folks (Thanks to Randy, Ross, Roger, Matt, Paul, and many more.) The parts are high quality and the instructions take the user through the process step by step.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

“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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