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Jack Rickard and George Hamstra at EVCCON 2011. Electric cars rolling out of 100,000 garages across the land. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way…. I LOVED this photo…. Thanks George… http://EVTV.me

The Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention is mostly over. Actually about 16 showed up at the house for Sunday dinner and we’ve had three or four linger till midweek – the convention that just won’t end. I’m drained and recovering. We have a TON of video and photos – actually it has me a bit overwhelmed.

Jacob Mcclelland of local NPR affiliate KRCU has kind of broken into the national story team at National Public Radio with one of his first national stories – about EVTV. Aired this morning, September 21, 2011 on NPR’s Morning Edition. Our congratulations to Jacob on getting into national reporting and our appreciation for this very

A little update on the Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention. I got the program guide done and off to the printer. Hopefully it will be printed and back in time for the convention. But I thought some not coming might want to take a look and see what they’ll be missing. Enjoy. Jack http://EVTV.me

Six months ago we received a request for a quick list of parts to make a B&B Manufacturing Turnkey Minus 66 Cobra kit car into an electric drive vehicle. We responded that it wasn’t quite that easy. The components required kind of had to be worked out based on what you wanted the car to

The online milieu offers enormous opportunities for learning and information about topics of interest. In the early dreams of a global internet, this ability to pool the expertise of many individuals around very narrow topics of interest was one of the greatest boons foreseen. Unfortunately, in many ways it has turned into a cesspool. There

How far do you want it to go? Almost every discussion of electric vehicles STARTS with the concept of range. This is because it has always been the defining limitation of electric cars. In the early days of the Internet, electronic bulletin boards, and online communications, it was always “how fast is your modem connection.”

Somebody called to see if I would be around this week. My response, unfortunately so. You see, I always wanted to be a tall. But it was the whim of genetics and my own proclivity for good food that decreed I should be a ROUND forever. A short show this week. And I like that.

This week’s show is kind of a hodge podge. Again we are heat limited in Missouri as to actually doing very much. We completed the rear battery boxes on the eCobra and moved to the belly boxes on each side of the vehicle behind the exhaust pipes. We did do a bit of cable work

This week we welcome Mark Emon of St Michael’s Maryland as our special guest. Mark operates St. Michael’s winery and brought us an interesting Seyval/Chardonnay and an equally delightful Chambourcin. I’m frankly not a fan of North American wine grapes and hybrids. I love to drive the Porsche to a local Missouri or Illinois winery