I will share a little secret. Sometimes the difference between a marvelous life and a mediocre one is paying attention and just learning a few basic tricks. I’ve actually got more than my share of these as I’ve paid pretty good attention throough the years. The problem is that most little tricks have a barb […]
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.
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“I spent a lot of it on fancy women, fast horses, bad cards, and old whiskey. The rest I just squandered. ” So goes the answer to the question “What did you do with your fortune?” Probably a little too close to home for comfort. I’m pleased to report I’m about broke, and couldn’t be
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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
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Tough week. Somebody tell Selsea Chexton et al that this thing about electric vehicles being maintenance free is a fantasy of theirs, not reality. Jason Horak and I don’t see it that way. It was bad enough that the transmission in the Escalade imploded. I find it odd that it did so. It is indeed
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What’s that spell? WHAT’S THAT SPELL?. No, it does not spell SEX. It spells SXE. Dyslexics UNTIE! That said, we do a bit of a walkaround of our new Tesla Model S this week and talk about their very high crash rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, their execution to date, and the
Give me an S…Give me an X… Give me an E… Read More »
EVCCON 2013 is done and we are slowly recovering. My voice is pretty much gone. I did several sessions of two hours or more. We had several hits this year. Brian Seymour and the HPEVS team showed up in force this year showing their new AC35x2. They brought two cars at no small expense, a
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Back in February I spoke of the “short squeeze” on Tesla stock, which had been kind of bumping along aimlessly at $34 per share. I predicted then that the short squeeze could press Tesla stock (TSLA) to ridiculous highs having no bearing on any conceivable valuation of the company and this could be particularly virulent
If You Like TSLA at $140, you’ll LOVE it at $200 Read More »
These were the days my friend….. This week we acknowledge a sea change and weather change in the land of Electric Vehicles. It will take some years yet to play out, but the helm has swung hard over and we are no longer destined to fall off the edge of the earth into that dreaded
I suppose it is time to face reality. We have won the battle most completely. And we have lost the war most entirely. I concede defeat reluctantly, petulantly and never with good grace. But it is time to finally admit, I was wrong about the Battery Management Systems and/or Battery Monitoring System issue. And I’m
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