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
- Volkswagen introduces the GX3 at the LA Auto Show. Pure affordable performance: Crossover between sports car and motorcycle. [via GCC]
- The business of manufacturing electric vehicles
- Auto execs predict growth in sales of hybrids. All is not rosy, “Without high-margin SUVs and pickups and luxury cars, where will profits be found?” KMPG asked.
- SUVs are not safer than cars for children.
- Chris’s electric motor gallery with a little more info in his blog
- How about a vote for our favorite Electric Drag Racer, White Zombie?
- New Year’s greetings from Toyota
- The Batpack EV power controller prototype
- Stackable, robot electric cars
- Las Vegas gets Hybrid Taxis
- From Well to Wheel, how clean are EVs?
- Toyota Yaris reviews and the influence of automobile writers.
- Hyundai Greenspeed Gator fuel cell dragster concept.
- I just like saying Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces
- Cogeneration thoughts from the Ergosphere
- NEVs still not allowed in Pennsylvania
- Smokin!
Monitoring Systems · 29 December 05
Despite increasing complexity, or perhaps because of it, most cars have a limited selection of gauges and status indicators. So called “dummy lights” have replaced meters in all but the performance orientated automobiles. Even the dummy lights are multi-tasking. If the brake light illuminates it could be for a number of reasons: emergency brake on, brake light out, low brake fluid, or maybe loss of assist vacuum.
The basics necessities for a car come down to: speedometer, gas gauge, some form of engine temperature, and a tachometer for manual transmissions.
- The Happy Messenger Chinese Electric Car
- Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity, Electric Vehicles
- All Darin wanted for Christmas was a plug-in hybrid push trailer (no word if Santa heard him…)
- Article over at the Energy Blog on Flywheels for energy storage.
- Mercedes LCD instrument dash
- The lithium battery breakthrough in RCs
- The world’s first AC motor for golf cars (and maybe NEVs?)
- SAAB flex-fuel BioPower is a best seller in Sweden.
- Convert anything
- Not at all related to EVs (well, maybe you could use for making battery water?) but a cool idea all the same, the WaterCone.
- Build it yourself, compact 80A Automotive Ammeter
- Fun with Thermodynamic Toys
- Big and Bad: “The truth, underneath all the rationalizations, seemed to be that S.U.V. buyers thought of big, heavy vehicles as safe: they found comfort in being surrounded by so much rubber and steel. To the engineers, of course, that didn’t make any sense, either: if consumers really wanted something that was big and heavy and comforting, they ought to buy minivans, since minivans, with their unit-body construction, do much better in accidents than S.U.V.s.”