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Cheap Car Challenge – 2009 BMW 535i xDrive Touring Wagon

The Truth About Cars

Is a blue-smoke blowing 2009 BMW 535i xDrive Touring Wagon a good idea? The Speed Academy guys shake down this old Bimmer, and the answer may be to simply add M parts, which is never a bad idea. The 5 Series wagon kicks off Speed Academys Cheap Car Challenge, and theyre still looking for more cars to round out their competition.

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I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea

Electrek

more… The post I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea appeared first on Electrek. And that’s exactly the story of my latest weird little e-bike purchase. Say hello to the Mihogo Mini, an ultra-low-cost electric bike direct from China.

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Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

Cars That Think

With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. Vaggeeswar Rajaram/Northeastern University The idea to use infrared light stemmed from Rinaldi's previous project: detecting exhaust fumes from cars.

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VinFast May Bring The Ultra Cheap VF 3 To America

CleanTechnica EVs

VinFast is toying with the idea of selling its diminutive VF 3 electric city car in America. Its dealers approve of doing so.

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A Cheap Clean RV Option Emerges

CleanTechnica EVs

With more people remote-working than ever, the idea of hitting the road like Jack and never coming back (no more no more) sounds like a great option. After all, who doesn’t want to wake up to the views of Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon every morning? With portable Starlink internet now available, there’s almost no […].

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Comment on NIO says Abu Dhabi investment took just 3 weeks from talk to deal by Augustus Meyer

CN EV Post

Great idea; terrible execution. Why did Mr. Li not buy these cheap shares by himself, to show confidence in NIO ? Old time small investors, who believed in NIOs general concept, are deprived of their money. Simple solution: Make battery swapping tech "Open Source" for other NEV producers.

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A Cheap Balancer and Transmission Issues

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

After talking with some engineers at HP and mulling over some ideas, I came up with the attached schematics for an inexpensive battery balancer. This one relies much more heavily on complex PIC programming and uses an off-the-shelf laptop or inkjet-printer power supply to deliver an isolated source of power for the battery charger.

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