I’ve rather failed to keep up the blog in the past few weeks. I have been kind of in a hole with the Generalized Electric Vehicle Control Unit software with the latest final version ever just around the corner. It’s refreshing and very enjoyable to be back in code though a little rusty. And so […]
Bench Envy – the GEVCU begins to show its stuff. Read More »
Ok, it was pretty small. We had four people here for Batcon2014. Mark Weisheimer, Brian Couchene, Phil Becker and his son Adam Becker. But we had a ball. Mark and Brian arrived on Friday while we were dismantling our first pack with Phil and Adam joining us early Saturday. We had dinner at Ray’s of
BATCON 2014…And a Good Time was Had by All… Read More »
Thursday morning, at about 7:30, we sold our last available Renault Influenza/Better Place battery pack. Wow. Whoops. Or aw-shit. I’m not certain which is more appropriate. But people with publishing experience should NOT dabble in retail sales. That’s clear. We apparently mispriced the Better Place packs rather eggregiously. I hoped to pretty much clear these
MOVE ALONG..MOVE ALONG… Nothing to see here…move along Read More »
It was long, ugly, and expensive. But this past Saturday morning, March 1, 2014, the Renault Influenza Better Place battery packs we first sought in the first week of November finally arrived at EVTV in Cape Girardeau Missouri. In a devious plot, hatched between myself and Omer Bar Yohai, we liberated these battery packs and
EXODUS – A Parting of the Waters and My People Cannot Make Bricks Without Straw. Read More »
Is you have to keep learning. Actually, it’s not a bug. It’s a feature. And at the point where the pace of my education slows, probably leads to my departure from the EV scene. Despite my almost famous dislike of YouTube, they do continue to reinvent themselves. We’re up to about 2500 subscribers now there
The Trouble With Learning Curves Read More »
This week and last has been fun. We received Otmar Ehbenhoech’s 1990 Vanagon DoppelKabine and were pleasantly surprised at the straightness and condition of this very rare (in the U.S.) VW variant. We think it will make a great build and I kind of picture a yellow VW Thing and a yellow VW DOKA side
CANopeners and Battery Life. Heat does appear to matter… Read More »
From our first build of the burgundy 1957 Porsche Speedster, our mission has been to inspire others to build similar cars using these phenomenal new lithium battery cells. In our view, the lithium ionic battery made electric cars viable for the first time in history, crossing some threshold of viability that we perceive with a
Registry of Custom Electric Vehicles – Wormhole and Stargate Read More »
I have been remiss in my bloggerations recently. The holidays. End of year. Kind of a low energy state overall. I’m kind of spinning my wheels on where I should be directing my efforts, with a few too many choices to pick from. This is a bit complicated by the matter of our vendors and
Rag and Bone Man…Star Date 2013.365 Read More »
Weather being what it is… I got to do another show solo this week. Actually early in the day Saturday with a new camera which it turns out needed some special stroking to get the video out to Final Cut Pro X. We had a foot of snow and ice on Friday and none of
Drink Lightning…Crap Thunder….Drive Electric Read More »
Happy Thanksgivukkah. Coming up on Christmas and have just survived another Cyber Monday. And every day at EVTV is a bit like Christmas Morning. I have shiny new toys stacked up without time to even play with them. And many more coming. Whence this cornucopia of bling things? It’s raining EV components and we’re getting
