In this week’s episode, we take the Speedster Redux, with it’s 57 CALB 180AH cells, brand new Netgain Warp9 improved motor, and Soliton1 controller to task. We do this by putting it on a dynomometer and actually measuring both power IN to the system from the batteries and power OUT of the system on the […]
Speedster Redux and the Dynomometer Puzzle Read More »
Writer/Director Chris Paine’s documentary feature film Who Killed the Electric Car? premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 before its release by Sony Pictures to critical acclaim in 100 U.S. markets. The film was the third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006 and screened with An Inconvenient Truth in many markets. The film was written
Chris Paine to Keynote EVCCON – Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention Read More »
This week, we take a look at one of our viewer’s builds. This is a very interesting one to us. If you recall, we bought an electric Spyder, done very similarly to our Part Duh Speedster. The similarity was not entirely accidental. Duane Ball was doing the Spyder in Albany New York at the same
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I cannot express my discouragement at this moment and my rage at my own failures here. I cannot find the words or the logic to persuade nor to convince and Im at the point of giving up. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110319/NEWS/110319406/1350?p=1&tc=pg&tc=ar 1. Total destruction – intense heat. 2. Unattended charging 3. 11:00 PM Number 15 to my count.
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Running a little late this week. I’m just now putting up the blog with the March 11 show – while the March 18 show is rendering. First, the test bench failure was not what it seemed. We thought we had blown up the new TCI 4L80E transmission. Turns out, it was a much simpler and
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Christopher Fischer has been a busy fella. He offered a little help with the web site here at EVTV and I’m guessing wonders what he got himself into. The index is coming along famously. If you go to our archive of past shows page there is a link to this index. This is the most
We mentioned the possibility of a fall event for viewers/electric vehicle builders here in Cape Girardeau during our last show. Things have picked up on this front a bit. We got several e-mails from people wanting to cast it in stone NOW and expressed their intention to come. I’ve e-mailed a couple of potential speakers
Announcing the Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention EVCCON Read More »
Interesting show this week. Mostly a rundown on our additions to the EVTV test bench, which is coming along quite nicely. We’ve added a control panel for the generator, with a contactor, current shunt, control switch and voltage/current displays. This allows us to turn on the generator or leave it off, depending on what kind
Not Everything Works the First Time Read More »
This week we talk a bit more about our EVTV test bench. This is going to come slowly but I think is a necessary part of our Cadillac EXT project and will be quite useful in the future as well. It’s kind of like building a really slow electric car, with extra instrumentation and controls.
