It’s a good hurt. Kind of like when you quit hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. EVCCON 2012 mission complete. We’re back in the shop, where we will never be able to find a part or a tool again. But it is just us chickens and things are quiet. I can calmly zero […]
BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN – IN THE RAIN Read More »
It’s the day after EVCCON. I’m beaten down to a pile two and a half feet tall and six feet in diameter. Until last night, I had about 11 hours sleep spread across six days. It’s a good tired. But I’m left stunned, dazed, and confused. Attendance was a disappointment with slightly over 200 people
This week, we take on a couple of oddities. The first is the Leaf range loss issue. This has been widely reported elsewhere with an inordinate amount of information I’ve found implausible. So this week we went to Tony Williams, organizer of the group in Phoenix purporting to refute a Nissan claim that there was
See this TURTLE goes into a BAR and says to the bartender…. Read More »
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
The Trouble With Tesloids – They’re Not Tribbles. Read More »
Kind of a lite week here at EVTV as we are spending a bit of time trying to get some future projects together and work the EVCCON details and administrivia off. I’ve got a pretty good team put together this year. And a new shop rat – Jesse Hale who is just tearing up a
TESLA MODEL S – OR JOHN DEERE ZERO TURN? IT’S ABOUT A TOSSUP. Read More »
As many of you may have picked up, I’m not really by standard definition a “car guy”. I don’t really like cars. I don’t even like to drive. When we go out, my wife normally drives. Strange thing I wind up doing given that context. But I am a battery guy. I’ve always been fascinated
BATTERY JOY AND THE CAR GUY Read More »
Exciting days. Brain did a marvelous job of getting the front of the Cadillac back on and the new condenser fan installed. We had a bit of a problem with the left front turn signal that required a trip to the dealer for a new bit of harness about a foot long, but that wasn’t
DRIVING JACK IN A BLACK CADILLAC Read More »
A pleasant week in Missouri and for EVTV. The temperature has dropped dramatically to low 80’s from well over a hundred degrees fahrenheit and we can work again in the shop. I took a day to fly the King Air 200 with my old mentor Kenny Hoffman to pick up some friends undergoing medical treatment
THE INFLECTION POINT – YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION Read More »
Not a lot going on this week. We reinstalled the Soliton1’s in the Cadillace Elescalade EXT, installed a cooling system for these controllers, and began reassembly of the front end. [jwplayer file=”news081012-iPhone.m4v” hd.file=”news081012-1280.mov” image=”http://media3.ev-tv.me/news081012.jpg” streamer=”rtmp://s3einxnpkaij93.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/” provider=”rtmp” width=”950″ height=”584″ html5_file=”http://media3.ev-tv.me/news081012-1280.mov”] We are getting closer to the Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention (EVCCON) scheduled for September 26-30 of
Escalade Cooling System Read More »
Tell me if I”m correct. And tell me if I’m not. I rather see the future of EVTV as moving somewhat away from our various builds, though we undoubtedly will always have some project going. And more toward viewer contributed videos of their builds. This video kind of qualifies. We have Richard Rodriguez with a
A BIT OF THIS, A DASH OF THAT Read More »
