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This week we feature Richard Rodriguez’s excellent Porsche 914 Targa build. Richard shot an excellent video walk around of this car, which does 100 mph and of course over 100 miles range using somewhat unusual Voltronix batteries from Flux Power. Flux Power was started by the ex-CEO of Aptera Motors. [jwplayer file=”news072211 – iPhone.mov” hd.file=”news072211-1280.mov” […]

They say that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man would be named King…. I guess I’m not convinced… This week we ran our longest show ever, and had to cut much of that. It’s feast or famine here, depending on what parts come in or are available. Right now we’re buried. We

After a week off, we did get a video out this week. It’s a little hosed up. I have the new Final Cut Pro X editing software and it has a few problems I’m struggling with. We had some news on the J1772 front. Clipper Creek actually made some sort of internal error and SHIPPED

Despite my last post regarding the miniscule number of actual electric cars on the road, and admonition that we are firmly at the BEGINNING of the tinkerer/innovator market stage, the wider press frenzy and flurry of OEM press releases has had an effect of urgency. Although remaining largely unobtanium, the blizzard has certainly spurred the

I have no video for you this week. I’ve been working on my recently moved battery test bench and some new battery tests. Not without some glitches in equipment and process. But more to the point, it was the Holiday Weekend and it was important that we show up in Nashville Tennessee on the occasion

Pretty good show this week. Fred Behning of Austin sent us a nice video walkaround of his still in progress conversion of a 1960 Bug-Eye Sprite in all it’s blazing yellow glory. This is the kind of upscale quality build of a much loved classic that I am so fond of. For my money, he

As we approach the summer solstice, I’m inspired to explore new and untapped areas of the realm of long boring technical videos. I think we’ve reached some sort of zenith this particular week. The immediate object of this week’s video is another contest finalist, Alex Viera, who arrived to plead his case before EVTV viewers.

It IS Friday, and I’m just now blogging LAST Friday’s show, which I have to do in a hurry so I can film THIS Friday’s show, so it isn’t so late that it becomes NEXT Friday. Brain started this Friday thing. We have gone from standing around summarizing things with no parts to work with

This week we received a visit from one of our Masterflux contest nominees – Team Illuminati and their vehicle SEVEN. As contests go, this is not their first rodeo. Kevin Smith got involved with various University advanced auto technology build contests when he was in college for a degree in Chemical Engineering. And SEVEN was

This may indeed be our longest show ever – right at three hours of HD video. We had a number of interesting developments and breakdowns in the shop, and then we introduce the TEN finalists in the EVTV “Build Your Dream” EV components contest. Each of the sponsors selected two of the 955 entries received,