- 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
- 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.
- If you are going to get “lit” for the holidays how about LED Christmas lights. According to Seattle’s fact page,
The comparative cost for a season of holiday lighting (based on ten strings of lights burning 8 hours a day for 30 days at City Light’s 2nd block residential rate of $0.0853 cents per kilowatt-hour) is $127.67 for large lights, $7.20 for mini lights, and $0.72 for the new LED lights.
- Seth’s EVs – a 240z and an S10 Conversion. Bonus link: homemade three phase brushless motor.
- How to make a vehicle lighter and safer (760K PDF)
- How to make your Corvette lighter
- Fiberglass fabrication for car audio. There’s also the RQ Riley, Overview of
How to Work With fiberglass Over Urethane Foam. - Making strong and trick-looking carbon composite panels in your garage. “Don’t even think of grinding on your panel near open flames, because the airborne carbon dust will ignite!”
- BMW working on waste heat steam assist drive
- Richard Newman’s new electric car
- Homebuilt RS232 LCD Interface
- Car LCD, maybe some ideas for a system/battery monitor? More here.
- Mac Mini hits the road
- The Venture Fétish electric supercar.
- Kite Wind Generator?
- Install a vertical lift door on your car.
- Replacing door window felt and smooth the window operation.
- 10 Best (gas) Engines of 2005
- Freedom EV Wiki, a 3-wheeler “tadpole” EV with 2 steerable front wheels, 1 driven rear wheel, and 2 side-by-side seats.
- The MIEV (Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle) concept cars.
- Toyota’s new Camry Hybrid to debut in January.
- If you are visiting (or living in) Portland, consider skipping driving altogether and scheduling your transit/walking commute with Google’s new Google Transit
James and the EV, III · 9 December 05
Shocking isn’t it?
James sent along a couple folders of EV images and “accidentally” included this photo that exposes the sad, sordid truth about electric cars…
They are human powered.
When no one is looking we chuck the batteries into a dark corner of the garage, pile in a muscular buddy or two and push the car around town, Fred Flintstone style.
Truly sad, and you read it here first folks.
- Maranello electric
- Solar rooftop panel kit for Toyota Prius.
- NEC’s paper thin, rapid recharge organic radical battery.
- RSS toilet paper reader. Hey, make sure your toilet paper is subscribed to EVConvert! Click the links in the lower left of the this page.
- From my old stomping grounds: the North Platte High School students are working on a new design for their next electric car entry in the next Nebraska Power Drive Finals.
Random Updates · 8 December 05
Lessee, where was I?
Oh, right…
F R E E Z I N G ! !
We’re hovering around 5°F with a crunchy skiff of snow decorating the otherwise ice-crisped landscape.
Zeke and I have been walking to or from work four or five times a week (great gas mileage!) and the morning walks are always the toughest to brace for. Not for Zeke, of course, he wears the same outfit year round and you don’t see him writing weblog entries complaining about it. You also don’t see me standing in an ice-lined creek hoping someone will throw a stick in.
Priorities.
- 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.”