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
- Ceramic Heaters and meter gauges
- Toyota Affirms Its Home Fuel-Cell Power and Heating Plans
- Bio-fuel plant in Wisconson will be the states largest ethanol plant, the country’s biggest tilapia fish farm, include a biodiesel plant and produce carbon dioxide and corn gluten as by-products.
- Another Utopia bites the dust.. “Each perished for different reasons. Spring Hill’s oncoming death is due to its proprietor’s inattention, lack of follow-through, Wall Street and the managerial dunderheadism afflicting the American automobile industry in general.”
- Thinking of an electric motorcycle? Check out El Ninja.
- Steve Heckeroth in Ukiah Daily on electric cars.
- Square Wheels wobbling to your city. Offspring of the square wheeled trike? (thanks Clark)
- Why are rental cars American? (and why no manual transmission dang it!)
- Frito Lay snacking on electric cars…
- Electronic Symbols (thanks Darin)
- Russian Stove (thanks John)
- Toyota going green?
- Mitsubishi concept hybrid, maybe a plug-in? Meanwhile the Germans get the religion.
- Off topic a bit (who, me?) but if you get a few minutes you just gotta check out this ferro magnet movie.
Lists of Lists · 5 December 05
It’s that time of year.
Time to make lists.
We’ve had a few folks wondering what needs to be taken out of the old donor car, what to keep, and what “new stuff” goes into making an EV. I’ve posted partial lists elsewhere but never a full, comprehensive list.
Not that these lists will be comprehensive right off the bat. I’ll probably forget things and everyone’s EV will be slightly different.
- Biodiesel Community
- Kitchen Biodiesel
- Wisconsin’s first biodiesel plant.
- Wyoming Biodiesel
- Engines Run on Vegetable Oil.
- National Biodiesel Board (featuring Bonnie’s Biodiesel Benifit…Riatt)
- The Clever. Three-wheeled, natural gas urban vehicle.
- Tim Nolan’s Electric Truck. His homepage has additional interesting projects.
- Papier mache aerodynamics from MetroMPG. Also a pointer to an Edmund’s article on the subject.
Bring on the Heat · 2 December 05
There’s a number of things you need to do inside the electric car’s dash compartment. What that consists of depends on your donor car and the type of “stuff” you’ve decided to install in your EV.
First off there’s metering, which, ideally, would be in a visible spot. Either mounted on top of the dash (clunky and maybe unsafe if high voltage wires present) or somewhere in the instrument panel.
Our first EV had the meter installed down around the light dimmer switch, which meant that eyes were taken off of the road to read it. Not this time.
The other major dash item is the heater. Let’s talk about that and share a few pictures.
- ‘Lectric Loon Platoon solar powered boat.
- Run your car off’n cows ‘n stuff y’all.
- Gift ideas for people who like to make things from MAKE magazine.
- 21 Ponies, 4sale video of converting a car to a hybrid (website short on details).
- Gumstix, Linux computer on a stick.