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-Jerry
- Insight into the Fate of Honda’s Fuel-Efficiency Champ.
- EVForge, a place for people who are involved or interested in the development, conversion, and experimentation of EVs (Electric Vehicles) to gather and share information and resources.
- Battery charging circuits
- Lister slow speed, cold start diesel generator project. Hmm, biodiesel?
A Christmas Car · 20 December 05
by Lee Hart
Marley was dead; as dead as a doornail. Of that there can be no doubt. The death certificate said so, and Scrooge said so, and what Scrooge said was invariably true (or would become so with a few well-chosen phone calls). Yet the firm still bore both their names: Mobul-Exon, for Mobul Marley and Exonezer Scrooge. It remained the largest corporation on earth; wealthier than nations, mightier than kings. Marley and Scrooge had poured their lives and souls into it, leaving precious little for anything else.
But Marley was gone, and Scrooge had retired, ostensibly to enjoy a well-earned rest from the inexorable pressures of commerce. At least, that was his story for the gullible masses. In reality, he worked as hard as ever, applying his talents to activities best conducted discretely, unobserved by the prying eyes of the Commerce Department or the circus arenas of Senate subcommittees.
- Toyota Yaris, future EV conversion candidate? Drag coefficient of 0.29 and probably very light.
- Restoring power brakes
- $7,000 to upgrade an S-10EV to the latest NiMH battery pack. Hmm, maybe we could dress Eve up as an S-10?
- Change comes hard to the US (editorial).
- Meanwhile Honda is entering the solar cell market for home and vehicles.
- Magenn Power’s new Air Rotor System. (via TH)
- Time to revisit our friends over at MetroMPG. Although the Canadian winter weather has put a major damper on Darin’s quest to experiment and improve MPG, he’s managed to put together a couple great posts: Grill Blocking (i.e. aerodynamics) and an ode to the lowly block heater.
- Manual Transmission Basics ...teeth on the dog clutch.
Woody's Electric 240SX · 16 December 05
We’ll title this,
“Woody’s EV undergoes open heart surgery. Diagnosis looks promising…”
Woody Becher is converting a 1995 Nissan 240SX. I got an email from him a couple months ago when he was trying to use our battery layout tool and wondered how to rotate the batteries. Come to think of it I still haven’t fixed that problem.
For the short term simply lay your monitor on its side…
- 2006 Tour de Sol Driving Toward Zero Carbon Emissions, May 10-14, 2006 Saratoga Springs, NY.
- Electric car quick charge systems.
- EV Motor Calculator
- Myer’s Motors EV pricing program
Schematic Update · 15 December 05
The rest of life, home and work, has been keeping me busy lately which translates into less tangible work on Eve.
Still working on shoe-horning the electric heater assembly into the old A/C box such that all of the air goes through the heater cores and is safely away from the plastic side-walls. Also, before doing much of the installation and wiring of the heaters I needed to update the schematic.
Being more of a visual thinker I tend to do “what-if” designs first, sketching out schematic ideas on paper or a whiteboard. When that finally looks good it’s much easier to implement the real thing.
- Electric motorcycle, old style (circa 1911).
- Fuel Cell Car kit.
- Instructables web site. Here’s one that might be of interest: Build you own metalworking Lathe.
- Control & Instrumentation for Engineers. Various articles and references. Here’s another collection of symbols.
- Rear Axle Calculator.
