[jwplayer streamer=”rtmp://s3einxnpkaij93.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/” provider=”rtmp” file=”news061413-iPhone.m4v” hd.file=”news061413-1280.mov” image=”http://media3.ev-tv.me/news061413.jpg”  width=”950″ height=”584″ html5_file=”http://media3.ev-tv.me/news061413-1280.mov”] A gentleman on LinkedIn posted a question about the “Cool Fun Factors of Converting a Car To EV”. I pondered this question for several minutes. They are cool. They are fun. But the question frankly annoyed me a bit and I couldn’t quite figure out why.

This week’s show is finally a bit shorter as we get caught up. Speedster Nippon went on a truck. This is one of the best builds we’ve ever done, and quite a pain in the ass to perform. It points up why we DON’T want to be automobile manufacturers, even on a small scale. The

This week has been a LOT of fun.  New announcements and activity.  Lots of news.  Stuff. So most of the electric car entries, as well as battery companies, have encountered ignomious failure, Tesla has on the other hand, ermerged in a very programmed fashion ot ignomious success.  We had predicted a short squeeze on the

The concept of a an adoption curve is credited to Everett Rogers in his 1962 paper on the Diffusion of Innovations. It described the adoption curve and introduced the concept of tinkerers and innovators, early adopters, early consumers, etc. Rogers had a PhD in Sociology but was originally an Agriculture student at the University of

I received an e-mail this week from my favorite adolescent delusional mental patient expressing his concern about the future of the 100,000 man army we are raising for the express intent of completely changing the world’s concept of personal transportation. It is of course true the world’s five largest and most profitable corporations are all

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