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It is springtime in Missouri. March rather carried a bit of late winter and so we’ve had a late bloom but a welcome one. This week we talk a bit more about the VW Thing progress. This vehicle has turned into a pleasure to work with largely because everything has been so accessible. Rerant on […]

This week we take a break from the Escalade and the VW Thing and go back to a little bit of battery theory. I’m learning to use stolen graphics with the green chromakeyer so that I can walk around in front of a green wall waving at things I can’t see while babbling things that

We call them batteries. They are both the bane and enabler of the electric vehicle. A strange paradox in personal mobility for over a century. The term “battery” derives from Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with capacitors actually – Leyden Jars – that he could use in series to achieve impressive voltages and shocking results. This series

Several years ago I received a phone call from Jason Scott, asking if he could come down and interview me for a documentary on the development of the Computer Bulletin Board System – BBS. I affably agreed to the visit. He arrived camera and kit akimbo and we chatted for an hour or so on

It’s been three and a half years since our first video and three years in November since we began a weekly series of videos on electric cars.  The premise was preposterous on the face of it – how to convert a car to electric drive.  And some days I do think I have finally gone

The Trouble With Tesloids is that they are not like Tribbles. They don’t multiply very quickly. No one would question that Apple’s iPod, iPhone, and iPad represent truly disruptive technologies that have sold literally hundreds of millions of units and dramatically altered telephone communications, the Internet, and personal computers, all in one fell swoop. The

This week, we were hard at work in the 2008 Electric Cadillac Escalade EXT conversion and we are at a very rewarding phase of the build where things move along quite quickly. Tim Catellier of Chandler Arizona slipped in and mounted a small explosive device under the hood and this kind of wrecked our week.

This week we mostly deal with wiring issues on the 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT Electric. The motors are in and we spun them up using a 12v A123 battery module. Very quiet and vibration free. We mounted two glycol fill bottles, one for our Soliton liquid cooling system and one for the electric heater. It