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-Jerry
Not an EV · 21 March 06
First off Darin asked that I add the disclaimer that he is NOT making an EV (yet).
Just because him and his buddy bought a used forklift (EV parts) and had it shipped, at some expense, to their house doesn’t mean they are making an EV (yet).
Sure, Darin has been asking questions on the EVList about turning the parts from a forklift into an EV, but that doesn’t mean he’s making an EV (yet).
Now that the disclaimers are out of the way let’s see what Darin is up to…
- Clearing out the mailbox, here’s some links sent in by readers:
- Carbon Chassis Velocipede human powered vehicle and the Townlife electric car – thanks, Richard.
- The first BMW Mini Cooper plug-in hybrd – thanks, Jerry. (no, the other Jerry!)
- Dave’s old Watthour Meter Page. Dedicated to the history of the watthour meter in the USA.
- Got this in the mailbox. Unfortunately I’ve got too many other sure-things in the queue. Any takers? (India phone#)
Dear sir,i have discover one Great formula of re-cyclic electric car,this project will be the revolution in all auto world.Please,beleive me sir This car is realy great This will need backing support & At same During this project ,we could try for patent this is an confidential Matter so, please call me at following cell phone number along with country code
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- Mike posted Lee’s Bonn charger circuit to the EVAlbum tech section. It’s what they call a bad boy charger, no subtlety, no control: it charges the batteries until you make it stop.
- Darin is spinning his wheels…in a good way, and in the name of science: RPM vs. MPG.
- American Wire Gauge: guide to the gauges and current limits.
- Digimoto Vehicle Diagnostics Software. It consists of nine distinct modules: Real Time Sensor Charts, Diagnostic Trouble Codes, Sensor Grid, Quarter Mile Stats, Dyno Statistics, Data Logging, Freeze Frame Data, Serial Interface and Gauges. You’ll also need something like this.
- The latest copy of Scientific American is plugging plug-in hybrids.
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- Fun stuff from Spark Fun Electronics! Pictured is the Arduino USB Board, which is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer. The open-source IDE can be downloaded for free (Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux). Also of interest the FAT16 Datalogger, shown in their example as a GPS logger, and the little lithium polymer batter charger chip.
- Hey, I wonder if this scales? Build your own air powered bike
- Are Hybrids a problem because they are too quiet? Jeesh. I see the automotive/oil industry’s FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) spreading machine is starting to gear up. Modern gas powered cars are also near silent while coasting, the main noise is from the tires.
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Gas Powered EV · 16 March 06
I get an email from time to time which goes like…
“Why don’t you add a lawnmower/weedwhacker/gas engine to your EV? Wouldn’t that help the range?“
Well, yeah, it might…but it wouldn’t be an EV! And, hey, who said I needed more range? ‘:^)
Still, it’s a common enough question that we ought to talk about it a bit.
But first, an answer to the other emails: NO, I HAVEN’T DIED!
- One of the challenges to making your own battery monitoring/metering system is keeping the high voltage pack isolated from the car’s 12v system. Sending the signals over fiber optics might be the trick: introduction to fiberoptics. Here’s a learning kit.
- Companies to Develop Electric Vehicle for Demonstration of Altairnano Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery System: press release.
- The birth of the Toyota Prius. Also for reference the hybrid entry over at Wikipedia.
- Plug-in hybrids are still gaining momentum. (this is good news: more batteries, means more research, lower prices, etc..). EVWorld reports that Hymotion, out of Canada, is releasing a plug-in version of the Prius and the Ford Escape hybrids.
Gas Hog Lincoln · 13 March 06
Time for something a little different.
Lee Hart has been a regular on the EVList, helping folks out with their electric car questions for years. Lee has even shared his design for an EV battery balancer with us.
Lee’s converted a few electric cars but he also does another type of EV conversion: converting songs, poems, and fables to be electric powered.
Today we head back to the 60’s for a little ditty I’m sure y’all remember…
- The Electrum series Spyder. A $69,995.00 EV running 300 volts of nickel zinc batteries in a composite body.
- Aerobatteries: Aerospace dry cell technology. (yeahbut…the website is one big image!)
- Your first electric car
- Driving the solution, the plug-in hybrid (PDF) artic.e from the Electric Power Research Institute’s journal.
- Darin is conducting more cold weather research, this time figuring out how to best warm up your car.
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