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Teaching Tots What Makes Towns Tick

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Kyle Park Points 0 Comments Children, city planning, kids, Urban Planning, Where Things Are from Near to Far

When Peter Sullivan, an urban planner, volunteered to give a career presentation to a class full of children – pre-kindergarten

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Electric Vehicles Offbeat

Razor Crazy Cart Will Get Your Kid Ready for Fast and Furious 17 (w/ video)

July 21, 2013 Jo Borrás 0 Comments cart, crazy, crazy cart, dirtbike, drift, drift kind, drifting, electric, EV, kart, karting, kids, kids in karting, razor, Scooter

The Crazy Cart is a 100% electric vehicle mimics the visual shape of more traditional go-karts, but drives itself with a front-wheel mounted electric motor. The rear wheels are heavy-duty casters, so the front wheel is doing all the steering and accelerating … which means the Crazy Cart is specifically built to drift like nothing else!

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Conventional Cars Solar Power

Talk About Showing Off – Students Display Successful Solar Car

December 17, 2011 Charis Michelsen 1 Comment Alternative Energy, alternative fuels, automobiles, Batteries, battery, car, Children, concept, Conventional Cars, education, Emissions, Environment, fuel, Fuel economy, Green, japan, kids, koto ward, mpg, New Technology, Project, research, solar battery, solar car, solar cells, students, suzuka, suzuka solar car race, Tokyo, transportation, World Solar Challenge

One of the fun things at Tokyo’s annual Eco Products exhibition this weekend is a solar car – but not

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Car hacks / Mods Solar Power

Recycled Hawtness: Sungevity Turns Summer Sun into Ice-cold Fun

August 2, 2011 Jo Borrás 1 Comment Children, conversion, converted, cream, custom, education, fruit, Green, ICE, infographic, information, kids, mail, mod, modded, New Technology, outreach, Pop, pops, popsicle, popsicles, re-use, recycled, restomod, solar, solar cells, solar energy, Solar power, teach, teaching, tech, truck, USPS

The future belongs to solar power, and Jason Anello – from solar power company Sungevity – is a big part

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Kidding Around, at 2000 MPG

June 26, 2011 Jo Borrás 6 Comments 2000 mpg, carbon, composite, composites, England, fiber, fiberglas, Fuel economy, kid, kids, light, lightweight, mileage, mileage record, mpg, mpg record, Sam Chapman-Hill, student, students, UK, ultralight, universities, university, world record

You read that right: two-thousand miles per gallon … and (in case you missed the reference), these 2000 mpg vehicles

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Car hacks / Mods Electric Vehicles

Canadian Kids Building Electric Drag Racing Truck

March 22, 2011 Christopher DeMorro 1 Comment B.C., British Columbia, Canada, Canadian high school, Casey Mynott, drag racer, electric drag racer, electric pickup, electric toyota truck, kids

Working on cars is my zen, and while Generation Y may not be as interested in cars as past generations,

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Car hacks / Mods It's Not Stock

6 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Built By Teenagers

August 15, 2009 Jerry James Stone 20 Comments air car, electric cars, EVs, iPod, kids, mod, plugin, plugin-in, solar powered car, soybean car, teens, tweens, VW Beetle

Car companies like Tesla, Toyota and Nissan are all scrambling for a piece of the EV market. Heck, even cities

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