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
EV Schematic · 28 October 05
In the last episode of Electronics for Dogs they covered the high voltage section of a typical EV schematic. It was missing a few things and, of course, didn’t cover any of the low voltage controls. Time to bring all of that together.
The last EV schematic I drew was in early 1996. Back in 1996 people were starting to think this internet thing might actually go somewhere and, what-the-heck, let’s buy some of this Yahoo! stock.
- Clark’s electric honda 350 dirt bike commuter.
- What are fuel cells?
- Inflating your tires with nitrogen? (read comments)
- Specifications for the E-Max electric scooter.
- Fuel economy clinic today in Boston area.
- Flexcar now offering rental hybrids in San Diego.
- EVs are going strong in SF Area
- Entropy Production: Discussion regarding the art and science of creating holes of low entropy, shifting them around,
and then filling them back up to operate some widget.
- Brian’s Fusion Energy – what it is, how we do it, how you can do it in a home laboratory.
After all, “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing!” - Take a trip to Sustainable Suburbia
- How lightning works.
- Ego electric scooter-bikes.
- Online unit conversion calculators
- Get rid of excess baggage and use only three wheels.
Electric Car Motors · 25 October 05
I realized the other day that some folks might be reading this EV conversion without having read our first one. One day I pop out the gas engine and a few days later a fully attached and matched electric motor is in place…
“Hey, where’d that come from?”
Let’s talk about EV motors…
- Otmar’s excellent Regen and DC Motors article.
- LED headlights
- Electrovaya EV.
- Reverse engineering custom engine parts made easy.
- A quantum leap in lighting?
- Steve’s electric tractors.
- Heat pipes.
- More details about the 2006 Honda FCX fuel cell concept.
- Mazda working on hydrogen rotary engine
- They’ve posted the winner along with photos from last weekend’s Greenpower Finals
- An enclosed, recumbent, electric assist bike? The Aerorider