Welcome to the Electric Car Weblog. In addition to links, news, and tips about electric cars and other forms of alternative transportation we are publishing an on-line diary of our current EV project. Started in August 2005 the chronicle follows the conversion of a gas powered Ford Probe into an Electric Car.
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
- Sweden is shooting for an oil-free economy within 15 years.
- How to make an electric car, battery, solar cell, gasoline and more, from How Products are Made.
- MIT Carbon Nanotube Ultracapacitor could approach storage density of batteries.
- It only takes one, Ergosphere on the promise of barium-titanate ultracapacitors.
- Meanwhile Darin has been testing Warm Air Intake as a possible fuel savings move.
- The ESpyder, custom built zero emissions electric car.
- Mitsubishi to introduce another in-wheel electric car (hey, maybe they could start selling in-wheel electric motors, too?)
- Revised EPA fuel economy labeling rule issued
- Sorry for the lack of updates, been away on vacation enjoying the warm (dry!) weather in Arizona. Even the high elevations of Flagstaff are warm and dry, which has been a nice treat after the cold/warm/wet cycle in New England this Winter.
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- Daystar Annunces Schedule to Become Gigawatt Producer of solar cells.
- Lights, Camera, Traction – Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance
- Volkswagen and Sanyo teaming up on hybrid batteries
- Coming soon, EDrive, plug-in Hybrid converters. For around $10k they’ll replace the existing NiMH battery pack of your Prius with Lithium, along with tweaks to the battery control system. The conversion process was engineered by a company called EnergyCS (here’s some of their projects). Hmm, wonder what they are doing with the old batteries?
- How’s that for timing, I was just thinking about Hybrid School buses on the walk home from work the other day. I can hear a school bus coming from quite a ways away, they are ferocious beasts. The giant engine, exhaust pipe thick as a grapefruit, powering the huge, swaying mass of metal and rubber that is the epitome of stop-and-go driving. Regenerative braking and electric assist take-off would probably save tons of wear and tear, along with helping reduce fuel consumption.
- Prius Hacks to get rid of beeps, enter stealth mode and more.
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Car Heat · 31 January 06
I’ve pretty much wrapped up Eve’s heater work, at least the installation into the air duct part. Thankfully it wasn’t anything at all like the duct-work in the movie Brazil.
There’s still a little bit of electrical wiring to do under the hood: wire up a couple of high voltage relays, fuses, and find an enclosure to keep it all clean and dry.
Kind of has a bug-eyed look to it, eh?
- New X-prizes are in the works. You might remember the X-Prize as the force behind the competition for private space travel. An encouraging quote from the X-Prize founder: “Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon? I think that we’ll see some amazing achievements in this area,” Diamandis predicted. Further details on this automotive prize are forthcoming, he added, when the prize is fully formulated.
- Two more episodes online of the podcast This New Car: #3 Hydrogen-combustion vehicles and #4 Fuel-cell vehicles.
- Kitcar USA looks interesting. Found a little information on car construction. Anyone else have links to sites on kitcars, fiberglass, and the like?
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- Seven simple strategies (PDF) to improve your car’s mileage—without busting your budget. From HomePower Magazine.
- Turning hazardous waste (Jersey Juice?) into hydrogen fuel.
- What’s up with EEStor’s Ultracapacitor technology?
- The HOV lane exception for Hybrids in California so popular that they may end it
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Future Crush · 29 January 06
Someone on the EVList posted a link to this full length video over at Google Video about the EV1 called Future Crush.
Click the continue link to watch it.