- The Naval Research Laboratory demonstrated an unmanned fuel cell powered airplane [Energy Blog]
- A water heater that uses microwaves. It’s the size of a speaker (?) and heats on demand. Hmm, another type of on demand EV heater?
- Altair Nanotechnologies gets a grant to work on advanced Lithium Batteries. [GCC]
- After Gutenberg reports that Canada is starting to make switchgrass pellets for home heating.
- Fast charge Lithium battery. Hey, I’ll take a car-full!
- EV UK has done us the favor of rounding up other Lithium leaders.
- You’ll need to charge all of those Lithium EV batteries you get over the holidays. Be sure to read up on charging lithium at the Battery University.
- Daimler/Chrysler’s new platform for Plug-in Hybrid and Fuel Cell Work
YaGoo! · 22 November 05
If you look in the lower right corner of the page you’ll see some new icons: Add to Google, My Yahoo!, My MSN, Bloglines, and NewsGator. Clicking these will add EV Convert’s “feed” to the corresponding service.
What’s a feed? Basically it’s a way to subscribe to updates from a number of site, like this one, in one central location. Rather than trying to remember to visit a bunch of sites to see if any of them have changed, the “feed service” does the work for you.
If you haven’t played around it I’d suggest giving it a try. When I post a new article, the service will show the title’s post. A quick click and you are brought right to the new entry.
There’s also some cool desktop applications which do the same thing, but run right on your computer.
If you are using the latest Safari or Firefox browsers this type of live bookmark is built right in.
Enjoy!
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Yugo Greg II, Revenge of the Motor · 22 November 05
Bad news.
Greg’s Yugo EV is in need of a motor transplant.
For those just joining us you can take a look at the first post where we cover Greg’s Yugo EV.
Greg did a great job building the EV within limited means, scrounging EBay and doing a bunch of his own fabrication and construction.
Total cost for EV parts, under $800.
He had put over 1300 miles on the car with no problems when the motor started acting up.
- Zero EV, coming soon. Japanese website here.
- Eco-driving, how to be a greener driver and use up to 25% less fuel.
- LiquidMetal technologies. “Liquidmetal lets you get parts as you do with plastics…”
- Piaggio electric powered Porter.
- Vogelbilt Electric Cruiser
- Got a little distracted the other day and started reading about Geothermal heating. The Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium has a list of incentives by state. And here’s the Information Survival Kit for the Prospective Geothermal Heat Pump Owner. For worldwide info/resources check out the Geomap.
- EV Parts Supplier in Australia, EV Warehouse.
- The Zap Xebra.
Up to 40 mph w/40 miles range. DC motor, 110vac charger, seats 4, lead acid battery. Classification: 3 wheel motor driven cycle - Another great post over at MetroMPG: 8 reasons why your winter fuel economy bites.
- Speaking of which I see that there’s a MaxMPG Yahoo group. After a few minutes poking around I also uncovered the Veggie Burning Diesels, about 88 Electric Car and 30 Hybrid Car groups, and 38 for Prius.
- MetroMPG got a brand new gadget to help his quest for higher mpg…
- Hi Torque Electric, motor shaving.
- Brent Singleton’s 1932 Ford Roaster all Electric Car
- Nature Mill household composter
- Index to Coefficient of Drag for Many Vehicles Plus Index to Horsepower vs Speed Curves
- Thinking of turning an old Beetle chassis into an EV? Check out the Glockler Spyder kit body. I’m not sure it would be that much fun in New Hampshire winters.
- Building Integrated Photovoltaics by Steve Heckeroth.
- What is a Stirling Engine?
- Lithium batteries: The Future Technology.
- Smart drivers have a boat tail.
James' EV part II · 17 November 05
Meet James May.
You ever have one of those weeks where your mind and hand coordination doesn’t seem to be working? Hands end up in the wrong place on the keyboard and you type a paragraph of gibberish before noticing…and then wonder if maybe it’s better that way?
I email James to get picture of him and the car.
Me and my typos. Here’s James and his cat.
Hey, it’s a nice looking cat.