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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

What about the person who tinkers in their garage who drives like the typical person ( With that in mind, I sorted through the electric conversions over at EVAlbum and found several cars that you could purchase for under $2,000 on the local Craigslist classified listings.

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2024 Toyota C-HR Debuts Elsewhere: Does Our Market Care?

The Truth About Cars

Hell, even the Honda Civic Type R is supposed to yield 36 mpg on the highway when the C-HR was only able to manage 31 mpg. Granted, the Mazda CX-30 is light years better to drive and there’s a slew of excellent Hyundai and Kia-branded crossovers that you should probably cross-shop.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

EV Adoption

” The VW staff person kind of mumbled and explained that yes, “Teslas have more range.” Granted I’m spoiled from the “Taste of Lexus” events my family used to attend and even the old Tesla meet-up events. Perhaps VW chose this approach intentionally, and granted the ID.4 Overall the ID.4

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Jonathan Macias Current Profession: Grant Manager for County Government and CEO/Founder of Sky Island, LLC How will you add value to the EAA Board? Writing a grant to fund the expansion of 15 Level 2 community chargers within the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico. About Alan: Alan drives a Tesla Model 3 and Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Jonathan Macias Current Profession: Grant Manager for County Government and CEO/Founder of Sky Island, LLC How will you add value to the EAA Board? Writing a grant to fund the expansion of 15 Level 2 community chargers within the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico. About Alan: Alan drives a Tesla Model 3 and Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid.

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Virent and HCL CleanTech receive $900K grant to demonstrate lignocellulosic sugars as feedstock for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts

Green Car Congress

The grant supports almost half of the $2.1 As part of the BIRD project, HCL CleanTech will also provide pine sugars to a leading biopolymer producer for evaluating fermentation into hydrocolloids that historically are produced from cane or corn sugars for use in a broad range of personal care, food and beverage applications.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. must create a strong electric car industry. The answer may lie in Silicon Valley. To keep U.S.

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