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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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Rivian Shows New Travel Kitchen Accessory In Recent Event

The Truth About Cars

The new $1,400 Rivian Travel Kitchen is designed to fit the R1, R2, and R3 vehicles. Rivian hasn’t listed the product on its site yet, but early images from YouTuber Brian Tong show that it secures to the R1S’ tailgate and uses its onboard power outlets for juice.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

Free Juice Bar explicitly sells charge stations to offer free power. The new ChargePoint America installation seems designed to illustrate my point. Creating an new industry that converts cheap electricity into a monetized charge session is not necessarily the best way forward. Obviously not.

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Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable

Cars That Think

We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Accenture Labs are putting this idea to the test with the design of a wireless heater that can warm up whatever’s placed inside of it when the heater is placed on a standard wireless charging pad.

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The Workplace Charging Challenge

Plugs and Cars

The Fortune 500 will get on board (garnering awards and photo ops with politicians at well-designed charge stations.) Many workplaces could become EV friendly on the cheap, repurposing existing 120V outlets in parking areas and expressly allowing PEV charging. Providing a conventional 120V outlet is cheap and familiar.

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2025 MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite Review: Updates to this affordable SUV means the battery now stays charged, but it still left us feeling a little flat

EV Central

In the old days (last year), the MG ZS compact SUV was cheap and cheerful rental fleet fodder, but now its meant to be something that appeals beyond its price. And that was because the petrol engine intervened early, often and quite obviously to keep the juice flowing. MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite. So, anyway, on with the show.

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