This week, we received a copy of a new JD Power and Associates study on the adoption of Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles. Note that they do make an appropriate distinction. The Study is subtitled More Hope than Reality, and indeed it paints a bleak picture. In my opinion, JD Power and Associates is one […]
This week is a bit of one of those “aha” moments which is what I’m really in this stuff about. I recently received a kind of strangely critical note from someone with the Minnesota Electric Vehicle Association and consequently visited their site to see what was up in the great north. What I found was
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Yes, I’m a little late with the Blog Post this week. We journeyed to Bremen Indiana this past week using “The Legend” a DC-3 we fly all too rarely these days. Pete Malone joined us on this trip to keep me from killing us all as I fly so little these days. The weather was
Strange week. A lot going on. Reminds me of the early days of Boardwatch Magazine. First, the contest. We’re launched. And we’re getting a very encouraging number of entries. Reading through them, as I noted in a recent post, I’m not sure I’m up to this emotionally. We’re probably going to quick scan 100 promising
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We’ve been wrangling over chargers and controllers for weeks. But I’ll delay no further. We are going to announce a contest for $20,000 worth of EV components that we believe will be the most popular promotion we’ve ever done. I hear constantly from people with great ideas for an electric vehicle, but who are very
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This week we formally announce a project I’ve alluded to in the past – the conversion of a 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT pickup truck to electric drive. From the get go, we’re going to do this a little differently from what you might expect. Our first choice is drive train and we’re going a little
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A lot of neat things happening with Video. I saw this coming back in 1996 but particularly called it two years ago. Traditionally print magazine publishers, I saw video as the next “disruptive” publishing technology. It’s not there yet. The Canon Vixia cameras have made it where you really can shoot HD video in a
We had a bit of a visit this week from George Hamstra of Netgain Motors, and took advantage of the visit to interview him on camera – mostly about earlier careers and how he got started with electric vehicles and Netgain Motors. Netgain’s Warp 9 is inarguably the workhorse among the conversion community and he
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This week we celebrate departure of the Speedster Part Duh Thursday afternoon to Bremen Indiana for evaluation and examination by the pros at Special Edition Inc. It will be interesting to learn their reaction to this vehicle. A number of their customers have done electric drive installations on their rollers, and they have been very
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This week we start to wrap up the Speedster Part Duh and send it off to Special Editions Inc. in Bremen so they can have a look at what we’ve wrought. We did something a little unusual in the video. We have found a way to do “pretty good” audio in a windy convertible. And
