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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 standard full-hybrid powertrain features a four-cyinder 2.5-liter Ford unveiled the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup truck.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

DIY Electric Car

If you want all the benefits of this great and robust power standard, google other projects, I skipped all those subtleties and got'r'done! I didn't realize this and spent 10 minutes unsoldering/resoldering. This all went together in about an hour. After that I did the research on the sense line. Here's how you can do it too.

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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. supporters are counting down until the historic day when an amateur astronaut will climb aboard a homemade rocket and wave goodbye to Earth, ready to take a giant leap for DIY-kind.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

Cars That Think

Though this space is generous by most standards, it seems I always needed “just a bit" more. I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. James Provost. Then things got more complex.

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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

Cars That Think

My homebrew devices are connected to the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi, which relays their state via Wi-Fi using the MQTT standard protocol for the Internet of Things. For commercial off-the-shelf equipment—like my energy meter—this communication is typically via Z-Wave.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. Since then we have deployed standard trackers, and gained considerable data on ice movements.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

Cars That Think

The Pi, running a stock version of the standard operating system , also allowed us to use established Python libraries to do onboard data processing. We plan to validate the data using the gold standard technique of so-called doubly labeled water , which lets us track energy expenditures on this kind of timescale very accurately.

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