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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

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2023 Kia Soul EV The boot’s surprisingly small – at 315L it’s less than the titchy Kia Rio hatchback – but for a city / school run car this matters little: suitcases and golf clubs won’t be typical cargo. The post Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on appeared first on EV Central.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. He’s also a member of Scranton’s IEEE student branch, the IEEE Club. Ham radio researcher Piccini joined Scranton’s amateur radio club when he was a freshman. Scranton’s IEEE Club offers presentations by engineering companies and technical talks.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Business as usual results in a mix of energy clubs, with little cooperation. A wave of green globalization allows all countries to share in the benefits of decarbonization.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Think of them as a giant fan club and focus group. You really have to package together something that allows you.to

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Super FET working Comments on Sykro Controller

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As I've mentioned before, the big solution to this is to use the factory TPS instead of a cheap forklift potbox (like a Curtis PB-5 or PB-6). This weekend is the biggest day of the year for our local EV club. The lurch instantly takes up the slack in the drivetrain and you can get a jerk that might cause oscillations.

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Is the Prius the greenest car of all?

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That’s the verdict of Germany’s VCD Automobile Club’s annual list of the most environmentally friendly vehicles, which only served to highlight Toyota’s dominance in the sector. According to Gerd Lottsiepen, the spokesman of the German VCD Automobile Club, hybrid cars are proving cheap to run and very quiet.

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Upcyling a 40-year-old Tandy Model 100 Portable Computer

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Thanks to the work of the Club 100 user group , I was able to tap into a universe of software written for the Model 100 (also known as the M100). I was able to identify the faulty component, and rather than attempt to find a new replacement, I bought a cheap, broken M100 that was being sold for parts on eBay.

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