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Electric Cars For Dummies
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Electric Cars For Dummies

by Brian Culp
September 2022
Beginner
416 pages
10h 42m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

The Fascinating Tech That’s (Sort of) Under the Hood

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Benefiting from instant energy

Bullet Torquing: Not a new dance move

Bullet Braking regeneratively

Bullet Miniaturizing the drivetrain

Bullet Managing OS upgrades

This chapter was written for your inner nerd. You know the one I’m talking about — the one who understands references to Star Wars canon, like the one I’ll drop later into Chapter 6. It’s the nerd who has an extensive Funko Pop collection and framed X-Men and The Incredible Hulk comic books from the 1960s and who could, if asked, record a 30-minute extemporaneous video essay about the vexing seventh season of Game of Thrones.

Your inner nerd is the one who has this clock in their office. (See Figure 2-1.)

You know the one: the nerd (fun fact: the actual name is Dummies Man) who’s featured on the cover of this and every For Dummies book in existence. (Surely it has occurred to you, too, that the triangle-headed character on For Dummies covers looks more like the archetypical ...

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