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
Site Stuff · 3 October 05
A few web site notes.
First off thanks for the great comments! I’ve also been getting a lot of email, much of it from folks on the verge of starting their own conversion. Perhaps I should make a roster of people and what they are thinking of converting. Then, as they progress we can post progress marks, kind of like scratching the height of your kid on a wall over the years.
If you are in the start/middle/end of an EV conversion but don’t have a website to share your pics and knowledge drop me an email. I have a category on this website for other people’s conversions and would be happy to host the pictures and help to write up your project so you can share your hard work.
Speaking of write-ups, I finally put together the TheHowZone article on fixing our fridge. Hopefully something you won’t ever need to know.
Contrary to how it may appear (or by lack of posts, not appear) I am still working on Eve. There’s a couple of things rattling around my cranium at the moment: where can I get the engine compartment and tranny steam cleaned, and the bigger issue of batteries. Until the batteries are decided on I can’t really start doing battery layout, welding, or any of that fun stuff.
- Electric Vehicle Battery Information.
- JB’s graphical battery monitor. You might remember an earlier post to his EV pusher design.
- Ford stops production of Excursion. 9,200lbs? As the locals would say, jeezum. As icing on this cake TH informs us that more bikes were sold than cars in the US this year.
- Long comment thread over at AutoBlog on whether hybrids save money. An equally lengthy and lively thread over at Slashdot. Ken Rockwell has a name for photographers who spend inordinate time with this sort of analysis paralysis: Equipment Measurbator.
You can't tuna fish... · 2 October 05
By now you’ve probably read Consumer Reports article about published vs. real-world fuel efficiencies. Up to 90% of the cars they tested had much worse fuel economy than that shown on the window sticker, some up to 50% less!
What is interesting about the article is that they mention automaker’s have been tuning cars for better performance rather than fuel efficiency, primarily because that’s what they’ve felt the market has wanted over the past few years. Let’s not go into the “what we want” aspect of it, but what about this tuning business?
- Overpotential – The world of fuel cells
- Factory Auto Manuals.
- Best idea this year, kid’s merry-go-round that powers a water pump. Next up, the micro-generators on Nintendo buttons!
Poor Man's Hybrid · 1 October 05
You might have noticed that most of the automotive news these days is about hybrids. Small hybrids, big hybrids, mild hybrids, even hybrids with chicken pox (just kidding).
Hybrid’s are all the rage.
Do you drive a gas or diesel powered car or truck? Then most likely you already own a hybrid. Of course if you tried to drive around the block on electric power alone you’d probably burn out a few components and kill the battery.
- Welcoming fuel economy nerds everywhere, MetroMPG.
- Bay area gets a peek at fuel cell vehicles.
- Will increased gas prices really influence vehicle sales?
- Toyota parts online.
Gas Free · 30 September 05
I won’t be so bold as to say that Eve is an EV just yet, but I think it is safe to say that she is no longer a gas car either. Last night I removed the last vestiges of gas, namely, the gas tank.
If you’ve never pulled a gas tank out of a car you’d be surprised at how much crap is hooked to it. I imagine that it probably looks a lot like Dick Cheney’s heart, what with all of the bypass hoses, valves, and wires.
- A Wooley electric ride down in Virginia.
- GM “sees value in unprofitable hybrid vehicles…” Huh? The story is as fine an example of corporate speak as you will find.
- How can I get me some of them SLPB’s? (Superior Lithium Polymer Battery)
- Egg!. I always thought an intrepid engineer could do something like this with the new VW Beetle.
- More blogs about electric cars.