It’s a good hurt. Kind of like when you quit hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. EVCCON 2012 mission complete. We’re back in the shop, where we will never be able to find a part or a tool again. But it is just us chickens and things are quiet. I can calmly zero […]
BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN – IN THE RAIN Read More »
Kind of a lite week here at EVTV as we are spending a bit of time trying to get some future projects together and work the EVCCON details and administrivia off. I’ve got a pretty good team put together this year. And a new shop rat – Jesse Hale who is just tearing up a
TESLA MODEL S – OR JOHN DEERE ZERO TURN? IT’S ABOUT A TOSSUP. Read More »
As many of you may have picked up, I’m not really by standard definition a “car guy”. I don’t really like cars. I don’t even like to drive. When we go out, my wife normally drives. Strange thing I wind up doing given that context. But I am a battery guy. I’ve always been fascinated
BATTERY JOY AND THE CAR GUY Read More »
A pleasant week in Missouri and for EVTV. The temperature has dropped dramatically to low 80’s from well over a hundred degrees fahrenheit and we can work again in the shop. I took a day to fly the King Air 200 with my old mentor Kenny Hoffman to pick up some friends undergoing medical treatment
THE INFLECTION POINT – YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION Read More »
Running a little behind this week. We are kind of swamping with orders on the online store and Brain got a call from his mother that things were not good on the left coast. So he drove out to Californy to the Hills of Beverlee. I’m stepping and fetching like Rochester and kind of ran
Elescalade MAF and MAP Sensor Drama Read More »
It’s cold here in Cape Girardeau for July. Actually, not. It has been over 100 degrees Fahrenheit every day and most of our shop is devoid of air conditioning, making EVTV a pretty miserable place to be, much less pinned to for two hours writing down battery measurements every minute on the minute. But we
APPLE Aquires Tesla Motors – On a Cold Day in July in Cape Girardeau Read More »
This week we begin testing the new CALB gray cell, the CA180FI. As I mentioned in the last post, these new cells sport some interesting improvements. The most minor, and most welcome, is they are labeled with a serial number and a tested Ah capacity. The cells are manufactured on a newer, much larger production line
CALB CA180FI NEW LiFePo4 CELL Read More »
Of all the lithium chemistries available, we’ve found the LiFePo4 based lithium cells to offer the best combination of safety, stability, cycle life, power, and energy density. Though slightly less capable in terms of energy density per kilogram, the trade offs of much more stable and safe operation, and the very much longer life expectancy
BATTERY JUMP SHIFT Read More »
This week we do some final testing on our dual Soliton1’s and dual 11 inch motors before breaking down the test bench to install the motors into the Cadillac Escalade EXT. One of the issues with this vehicle is where to get the signal to serve as the “throttle” input to the Soliton1’s. Of course,
Throttle Bodies and Bottom Balancing Read More »
The news this week was sobering. Despite my caterwauling about American battery companies that arrogantly refused to sell us battery cells, and the obvious karmic infractions thereof demanding their recompense and appropriately so, there is simply no joy in Mudville over the incumbent funeral expenses incurred in the current debacle of battery companies. First to
International Battery Setbacks Read More »
