This week and last has been fun. We received Otmar Ehbenhoech’s 1990 Vanagon DoppelKabine and were pleasantly surprised at the straightness and condition of this very rare (in the U.S.) VW variant. We think it will make a great build and I kind of picture a yellow VW Thing and a yellow VW DOKA side […]
CANopeners and Battery Life. Heat does appear to matter… Read More »
This week we have several balls in the air. On Monday after the show was posted, our crew spent an exhausting day squirreling away 100 Siemens motors we received by truck. All in spanking new looking factory boxes. They came in 8 large crates of about 2700 lbs each with a dozen motors per crate.
GEVCU – Gesundheit and Geilheid Read More »
We had a lot of fun this week. Basically we think a huge win for the EV community all around. In this episode, we introduce a new acquisition, a 1974 VW Thing. Well, yes, we already had a very bright yellow VW THING. And we’ve been doing a conversion to full electric drive on it
The John Deere Hybrid Electric Program for VW Things Read More »
We’re getting a bit sloppy around here. Part of it is reality intervention in our normal reality distortion field. Last week everything we touched turned to a mess. And I’m struggling here. The Ford Edge battery pack we just reconfigured we rather didn’t bottom balance. This is kind of interesting in that we have 28
Dyslexics – UNTIE! Read More »
It’s early Monday morning. I got the show up on time this weekend but it is a relatively short show of less than an hour and a half. I’ve already heard from several viewers that it is boring and they were disappointed. Curses and drats. So now I have to do a tour de force
And a $6,500 dollar $23,000 van is better than a $57,000 dollar $23,000 van. Duh. Busy week. We moved 15 sets of Siemens motor/DMOC 645 controller from Saturday to Thursday. Shot our video on Friday and I was infuriated to find that the Sound Juicer battery had failed halfway through our Friday session. Yes, of
Hardware is Not Hard, and Software is not Soft. Read More »
