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I’ve got the power: Using the Cybertruck to power my off-grid Tiny House
I watched the Cybertruck reveal and knew I had to have one because it was everything I had always wanted in a car but never been able to have. I grew up lusting after the Lamborghini Countach and the...
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I just can’t stop: Best brakes for ebikes
Nothing sucks worse than wanting to stop quickly on your ebike and not being able to. In the last 5 years, I’ve tested dozens of different brake systems and developed some pretty strong opinions about...
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Using ebike batteries to power your RV or travel van
Many years of my life I have spent living in vans. My first travel van was an old 2001 Honda Odessey that I outfitted with a bed to sleep in. I put over 200,000 miles on that van and traveled all over...
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Five hubmotors with the controller built inside.
If you have ever seen the inside of a direct drive (DD) hubmotor, the thought might have occurred to you that there is a surprising amount of unused space in the middle of it, and that it is also just...
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“Dr Chopper”, building Hot Rod Street-Cruiser ebikes
Hot Rod cruisers are a style where most people have a clear divide over whether they love them of hate them. That being said, Doctor Chopper (in Philadelphia) has wrestled with customers over what...
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Use a Junked Chevy Volt Pack to Power Ebikes, Electric Cars, Off-Grid homes,...
A good friend of mine, Laurence who is also ebike obsessed rode his ebike from Ithaca, NY to Washington DC last year. This trip without traffic in a car is about 12 hours round trip which got me...
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Valeo Mid drive with integrated Effigear 7-speed transmission
There’s not a lot of information yet on this system, but it’s pretty interesting, so I’d still like to show what I found. ___________________________________________________ So far, about all I could...
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Competing EV charging plugs and Voltages
If you are old like me, you remember how Betamax was a competing format against VHS, when it came to renting video-taped movies (this was during the ancient era before web-streaming, when the ships...
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12 Ebikes that use a hubmotor as a non-hub
A direct drive hubmotor is affordable, simple, and robust. However, they turn at the same low speed as the drive-wheel. Electric motors perform best at higher RPM’s and that is why the most common...
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“Dr Chopper”, building Hot Rod Street-Cruiser ebikes
Hot Rod cruisers are a style where most people have a clear divide over whether they love them of hate them. That being said, Doctor Chopper (in Philadelphia) has wrestled with customers over what...
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Use a Junked Chevy Volt Pack to Power Ebikes, Electric Cars, Off-Grid homes,...
A good friend of mine, Laurence who is also ebike obsessed rode his ebike from Ithaca, NY to Washington DC last year. This trip without traffic in a car is about 12 hours round trip which got me...
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Valeo Mid drive with integrated Effigear 7-speed transmission
There’s not a lot of information yet on this system, but it’s pretty interesting, so I’d still like to show what I found. ___________________________________________________ So far, about all I could...
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Competing EV charging plugs and Voltages
If you are old like me, you remember how Betamax was a competing format against VHS, when it came to renting video-taped movies (this was during the ancient era before web-streaming, when the ships...
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12 Ebikes that use a hubmotor as a non-hub
A direct drive hubmotor is affordable, simple, and robust. However, they turn at the same low speed as the drive-wheel. Electric motors perform best at higher RPM’s and that is why the most common...
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Charging an Electric Car with a 4kW Off Grid system and an Electric Tractor...
18 months ago I bought a Chevy Bolt for about 1/2 off sticker price. The Bolt has been awesome with the sole exception that I had no way to charge it at my wife’s house which is off grid and over an...
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Power vs Pedal: An In-Depth Look at the Maintenance Needs of Ebikes vs Bicycles
I was slumming it on Twitter today when I came across the following post: Say it isn’t so I started to really think about this chart and started to think about if I agreed with his theory that adding...
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