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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

Green Car Congress

Maverick comes as a standard five-passenger, four-door pickup, with a full-hybrid powertrain and a projected EPA-estimated rating of 40 mpg city fuel economy and 500 miles of range on a single tank of gas. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The Maverick product proposition is like nothing else out there.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

DIY Electric Car

So for all the glory of free charging, it just got my charger begging to suck on that lovely 220V/30A hiding behind a fancy gas nozzle look-alike. At 1.6wk, that ment 2hrs to charge a typical 20mi trip-leg. Who is that fooling anyway? I've had a hard time bellying up to the bar of SAE and pulling out my anty in the J1772 game.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. Volunteers use a tank of argon gas [left] to fill a tube within which engine elements are fused together. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. We're now building the.

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HHO Booster: A DIY Fuel Cell Conversion?

Electric Cars are for Girls

The makers of these devices are claiming it will increase your gas mileage to 100 mpg or more. How cool is that? It's not.)

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Out of gas (tank)

DIY Electric Car

We got the gas tank out. Apparently, did not get all gas out of tank. Stu and David came over today. Make progress. No smoking at our house for a while please. Postponed trying to disconnect transmission from cv joint due to one lousy stinking bolt/screw (see previous post).

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Picking Your Dream Car for Conversion

DIY Electric Car

So your almost there, ready to take the plunge as well to convert a car from gas to electric or maybe you dino drinker is on its last legs and is going to need to be replaced soon. A junky gas car will make a junky electric car. Try to do a gas to electric conversion not restoration unless it?s s your dream car. Eco Steve

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Tesla Owners' Class-Action Suit Gets Green Light from a California Judge

The Truth About Cars

Electric vehicles don’t require the same routine maintenance that gas models do, but they’re not completely repair-free. Right-to-repair is a hot-button issue across several industries, with companies of all types pushing back hard against efforts to allow owners to either DIY a repair or have a product serviced by a third party.

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