- 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!
- 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.”
- 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…