On June 12, 2014 Tesla Motors Inc CEO and Chairmon Elon Musk issued a dramatic announcement on the company’s blog titled ALL OUR PATENTS ARE BELONG TO YOU. It has caused quite a stir. There were 476 comments on it 12 days later. I was struck by this manifesto as on June 11, 2014 I […]
Make your time. I never quite get over it. It is hard to describe. It is not driving exactly. It’s not really about transportation for me, though I do need to get from A to B periodically. In the software and hardware of online communications, we used to call it “juice.” It was the feeling
GLOBAL WHINING – All Your Hardware Are Belong to Us. Read More »
I know I need to do the blog part more frequently. But we have a lot going on at EVTV and I’m struggling with time management issues. If you have three dozen pressing things to do, the tendency is to go shell shocked and avoid them all. That’s where I am these days. I’ve spent
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Is it me? Or has the pace of all this quickened markedly in the past few months. Both in the number of new trinket and toy developments, but also some sort of sea change among the populace. We’ve probably had a half dozen people in the shop here this week. That’s not unusual actually, but
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I have to tell you, I just never do get over it. This week we attempt to illustrate the pleasure of driving the VW THING. Like all our builds, we fail. We simply fail to convey the sense of magnetic electric drive. The simplicity. The quiet. And the sense of power. The sense of freedom.
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Toil…. The Thing About Things and Military Life. Read More »
Lithium Batteries are inherently humbling. The energy storage component of our electric vehicles is THE central issue to successful builds, so it comes as no surprise that we get a lot of questions about batteries. And every time I try to answer one, I think to myself “I hope that is more or less correct.”
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I’ve rather failed to keep up the blog in the past few weeks. I have been kind of in a hole with the Generalized Electric Vehicle Control Unit software with the latest final version ever just around the corner. It’s refreshing and very enjoyable to be back in code though a little rusty. And so
Bench Envy – the GEVCU begins to show its stuff. Read More »
Ok, it was pretty small. We had four people here for Batcon2014. Mark Weisheimer, Brian Couchene, Phil Becker and his son Adam Becker. But we had a ball. Mark and Brian arrived on Friday while we were dismantling our first pack with Phil and Adam joining us early Saturday. We had dinner at Ray’s of
BATCON 2014…And a Good Time was Had by All… Read More »
Thursday morning, at about 7:30, we sold our last available Renault Influenza/Better Place battery pack. Wow. Whoops. Or aw-shit. I’m not certain which is more appropriate. But people with publishing experience should NOT dabble in retail sales. That’s clear. We apparently mispriced the Better Place packs rather eggregiously. I hoped to pretty much clear these
MOVE ALONG..MOVE ALONG… Nothing to see here…move along Read More »
It was long, ugly, and expensive. But this past Saturday morning, March 1, 2014, the Renault Influenza Better Place battery packs we first sought in the first week of November finally arrived at EVTV in Cape Girardeau Missouri. In a devious plot, hatched between myself and Omer Bar Yohai, we liberated these battery packs and
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