We’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a bit of a fan of the Tesla Model S. I’ve taken a significant position in their stock and in fact have done well enough in it that it will basically buy me a Model S. Put in my reservation this morning actually. I recently received […]
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Well, we have posted our first show of 2011 and it is pretty good, if I mention it myself. An hour and 48 minutes. We had recently posted a couple of photos of a horrific electric vehicle fire that occurred on an Oslo Ferry, burning up the car, the car next to it, and extensively
This is our last show. Actually our last show for 2010. We’ll meet this weekend to decide what to do about 2011. In this episode we continue the fascinating work of building battery boxes for the Speedster. While not an exciting topic, in converting almost any car to electric drive, most new builders are surprised
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We’re getting a little carried away here. The addition of Matthew Hauber to the team has given us some mechanical expertise we’ve just never really had before. And that has given us some opportunities – not on anything particularly magical, but on very ordinary physical things. They count. As we became accustomed to Speedster Part
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This week we resume after our Thanksgiving break. ;We have a lot of little things going on, and some recurring questions I’ve finally a minute to form some kind of cogent explanation for that won’t sound like total nonsense. [jwplayer file=”news120310 – iPhone.m4v” hd.file=”news120310-1280.mov” image=”http://23.21.184.60/evtv-word-press/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/news120310.jpg” streamer=”rtmp://s2v8uso6bi7t47.cloudfront.net/cfx/st” provider=”rtmp” html5_file=”http://media2.ev-tv.me/news120310 – iPhone.m4v” download_file=”http://media2.ev-tv.me/news120310-1280.mov”] The first had to
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Well, it’s the week of Turkey Day, and as one of the larger and less flight prone Turkeys in the area, a time that always makes me uneasy. Actually, both my wife and I are excellent cooks, accounting for my unfortunate girth, and Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Family visit and good food,
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Interesting week. We had a visit from Wayne Alexander of EV-Blue Conversions in Walton Kansas. We had a great time talking, which he does love to do, and I may have overrun my budget of time for him on the show, but I thought I would include most of it for a couple of reasons.
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In this week’s episode, we assemble new mounts for the 2009 Mini Cooper Clubman drive train – somewhat colorfully. We also wrap up our Vantage Green Van Battery Makeover. We have thrown out 775 lbs of AGM lead acid batteries and replaced them with 27 High-Power brand 200AH cells that I never liked well enough
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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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