We’re finally making a bit of progress on the Cadillac Elescalade Project. Lucien completed our auxiliary adapter plate for the 11 inch motors. This is our enormous polish friend from Cape Precision Machine. They have taken a good bit of time with this project, but it’s true I had told them there was no rush […]
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Wayne Alexander has probably the most ACTIVE EV conversion shop in all Christendom with EVBlue. Wayne’s philosophy is “give the customer what he wants”. I’m a little bit of a crank I suppose. Were I to do a conversion shop, it would be more like “give the customer what you want them to have.” We’ve
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This week we round up some various and largely unrelated items for your viewing pleasure. We actually had a number of interesting things planned, and NONE of them really panned out. It was one disaster after another. The result was there really wasn’t much to show. Busted…. [jwplayer file=”news042911 – iPhone.m4v” hd.file=”news042911-1280.mov” image=”http://media2.ev-tv.me/news042911.jpg” streamer=”rtmp://s2v8uso6bi7t47.cloudfront.net/cfx/st” provider=”rtmp”
The big news this week is actually a new web site design. Count Domagni has finally gotten things to a pretty good state with our video interface. The entire website now resides on an Amazon.com server with the videos remaining in the Amazon cloud. This is all a bit of a technical issue and much
This week we return to Slingblade’s Dynomometer for another test. I’m a little weary of test graphs this week as I’ve been making a number of them. But this is probably more interesting to you. High Performance Electric Vehicle Systems http://www.hpevs.com has kind of cracked the AC drive market with the only system we’re aware
It fits the profile. Charging at 4:15 AM. Total destruction of both cars and the garage, melted the doorknob off the door to the garage it was so hot. What is interesting is that Storm Connors Suzuki Samarai uses flood lead acid batteries. I have never gotten a lead acid to burn. Blew the end
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This week we return to our 1957 Porsche Speedster Replica, the electric rebuild we call REDUX as it is the second version of the same car USING the same car. Recall we had upgraded this vehicle to 57 CALB 180 Ah prismatic LiFePo4 cells, a new version of Netgain’s Warp 9 series DC drive motor,
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This was a good week. Kind of strange, but very good. The good part was that Sebastien Bourgois, the head of EVnetics, travelled at his own expense from St. Petersburg Florida to our location in Cape Girardeau Missouri to address our Soilton1 weeney power problem. I would guess he had it fixed in about 20
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In this week’s episode, we take the Speedster Redux, with it’s 57 CALB 180AH cells, brand new Netgain Warp9 improved motor, and Soliton1 controller to task. We do this by putting it on a dynomometer and actually measuring both power IN to the system from the batteries and power OUT of the system on the
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Writer/Director Chris Paine’s documentary feature film Who Killed the Electric Car? premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 before its release by Sony Pictures to critical acclaim in 100 U.S. markets. The film was the third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006 and screened with An Inconvenient Truth in many markets. The film was written
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