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Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
- I know what day it is and all, but you really have to check out George Berbari’s Flywheel Driven Vehicle. Here’s a USPTO patent that shows a block diagram of the system. (hey, wasn’t Flywheel Drive a BTO Song?)
- It’s geared more towards the boating crowd but still an interesting read: Battery types, Flooded vs AGM and GEL
- Research into total cost of vehicles, including the cost of manufacturing. They are pretty down on hybrids, but considering that the technologies are relatively new I suspect that the numbers would be much different in a year or two as the advantages of mass-production kick in. Our EV conversions should get extra karma or something.
- Step one of the all-hamster powered electric car. (it’s only a matter of time)
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Jerry's Citicar Project · 30 March 06
No, I’m not starting a third EV project…this is the other Jerry…well, one of them. ’:^)
This is Jerry “Humanfuse” Schneider’s Electric Vehicle. It’s a Citicar, which, according to some accounts, was the most popular EV ever produced.
Read on to find out what Jerry has in store for his Citicar, along with a few pictures.
- Mii (?) sent along a link to this interesting EV Gauge
- An article by Dr. Larry, a back-story of his Metro Electric Car.
- YUASA has a bunch of online battery and charger literature. Someone also posted a link to this PDF on valve regulated batteries.
- Looking for a cheap 2.4Ghz spectrum analyzer? Actually what I’m looking for is a cheap infrared camera. Something you can use to see the hotspots in your EV after driving, plus it would be fun to see where the heat is leaking out of the house at night.
Quick Site Update · 29 March 06
I’ve added a new little tweak to the site: RSS feed for Comments.
If you are subscribing to this site’s feed through many of the RSS readers out there you might have noticed that sometimes it will show the comment count in parenthesis, i.e. (2). Now you can subscribe to the comments as well, to ensure you don’t miss out on all of the great information being posted there.
Look in the right menu bar, just at the bottom of the current comments, there’s a Comments RSS Feed link. Click/copy that into your favorite RSS reader.
- Killian’s Metro: “Kilian Herrington gets good gas mileage on his 1991 Geo Metro. In fact, since he bought it about four years ago, he’s driven it 23,000 miles and the little car hasn’t used one drop of gasoline.” (A few errors in the reporting, but it’s still nice to see these kinds of articles)
- GEM to sell NEVs in France.
- Cool, the cost of wind-generated electricity for consumers is now less than that of electricity from conventional sources in some markets.
- The 2006 Tour de Sol is coming up May 10–14, 2006 in Saratoga Spa State Park, NY.
- Homemade multi-charger and monitoring system in an electric porche. Man, look at that workbench: geek heaven!
- I’m not familiar with the dolphin charger but here’s a schematic (PDF) someone drew up of one. There’s some pics and other data linked off this directory.
- When NiCads go bad...
- What EVs will we see in 2006?
Larry's EV II · 24 March 06
One of the more active posts on the website is Larry’s Metro EV. Over forty comments so far.
Dr. Larry has been working on the battery layout to achieve a better balance of weight between the front and the back. As part of the process he was kind enough to send an update along with a few pictures.
- Ummm, fresh schematic… Gordon Stalling has posted schematics and how-to info for his homemade electric car battery monitor.
- Speaking of gauges, scroll down about 3/4 of the way (which is a long ways) on the Poor Man’s EV website to see his collection of monitoring gear. Lots of info and interesting pictures.
- Towards the end of last year a couple of guys from the EVList were brought on by Monster Garage to convert a 1962 Chevy Bel Air into an Electric Car using lithium batteries from Milwaukee Tool. Mark your calendar, program your tivo, the show will be airing on April 10th. In the meantime enjoy a quick preview and this funny ad
- Zap finally cleared all of the hurdles to bring the Smart car to the US. Gas mileage is lower than they have been claiming (40 vs 60mgp). I’ve seen these cars first hand in Europe and they are dinky, just the kind of thing that would be fun to convert to an EV. More info over at Zap
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