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Scout Motors Banks On One Weird Trick To Sell More Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

The new electric vehicles from Scout Motors parlay dials, buttons and switches into a rugged 1970's-era DIY off-grid vibe with 21st century V2X capability and other modern electronic systems. The post Scout Motors Banks On One Weird Trick To Sell More Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Solar Power for Sheds and Electric Car Charging Solutions

Setec Powerr

– Self-Sufficient: Solar power eliminates the need for cumbersome extension cords and provides off-grid independence. – On-grid Systems: Can be interconnected to the local electrical grid, allowing you to potentially sell back excess solar energy produced. . It’s a sustainable green energy solution.

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I run my electric tractor completely off-grid. Here’s my secret

Baua Electric

In what continues to feel like the ultimate tool hack, I’ve been running my electric tractor completely off-grid. With this setup, I’ve created an entirely off-grid system where my electric tractor is always powered by solar energy. For example, we just got an electric chainsaw and now I can run that off-grid as well.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car. Yet the hard cold reality is that unless we begin to move to grid electricity for most driving, none of the the other fuels will ever stand a chance of contributing to the end of the petroleum era. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to offer solutions.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

The way a Braille cell works is there’s as many as six dots arranged on a two-by-three grid. It’s got anywhere between like 14 and 80 cells. So, I guess I need to explain what a cell is. Depending on the permutation of those dots, that’s what the letter is. So, if it’s just a single dot in the upper left space , that’s the letter a.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.