Well, we kinda/sorta have the Speedster Redux back on the road again. We’re a little ginger with the new motor/controller combination with the brush seating issue. But even at a 2000A/sec slew rate we got a 10 second 0-60 time. Hardly anything to brag about I’m afraid. I think we can improve it, but the […]
On The Road Again…. Read More »
This is the longest show we’ve done to date at about 2.5 hours. Kind of beyond “feature length movie” all the way to “made for tv mini series.” I fear it may be an endurance test. But we did some neat things. We did describe in at least vague terms the theory of operation of
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This week we go a little bit more in-depth with Ian Hooper’s Zeva2 fuel gage driver. I’m quite enamored of this little device which he apparently is still building by hand. And improving. In the latest incarnation, he’s solved the fuel gage direction problem by using a 20 turn potentiometer. The direction is indicated by
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This week we welcome Anthony Bagnulo as a visitor from Ottowa Ontario. Anthony came down for 10 days to work with us and see the EV thing first hand. Apparently, we’re not showing the full metal jacket EV building experience in sufficient detail. In this edition, we have a bit of fun with an oversized
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We’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a bit of a fan of the Tesla Model S. I’ve taken a significant position in their stock and in fact have done well enough in it that it will basically buy me a Model S. Put in my reservation this morning actually. I recently received
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Well, we have posted our first show of 2011 and it is pretty good, if I mention it myself. An hour and 48 minutes. We had recently posted a couple of photos of a horrific electric vehicle fire that occurred on an Oslo Ferry, burning up the car, the car next to it, and extensively
We’ve been in contact with a somewhat interesting pair who are on a worldwide tour in an electric car. Hjalte Tin and Nina Rasmussen left Compenhagen on June 25 on a 41,000 mile trek in a Nissan QashQuai converted to electric drive by AFUTURE Electric Vehicles They are driving around the planet on a year
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This is our last show. Actually our last show for 2010. We’ll meet this weekend to decide what to do about 2011. In this episode we continue the fascinating work of building battery boxes for the Speedster. While not an exciting topic, in converting almost any car to electric drive, most new builders are surprised
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We’re getting a little carried away here. The addition of Matthew Hauber to the team has given us some mechanical expertise we’ve just never really had before. And that has given us some opportunities – not on anything particularly magical, but on very ordinary physical things. They count. As we became accustomed to Speedster Part
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The BMS/Charger thing has actually got me in a rage these days. The stupidity and greed are palpable in the air. But it is not innocent stupidity and greed. It is probably the most damaging thing being done today in EV land. The U.S. Congress and Senate, two of the exemplar houses of stupidity and
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