- Interesting flywheel adaptor over at leftcoastconversions.com. This is the fifth EV conversion for Reverend Gadget, who was part of the Discovery Channel’s BIG series. Additional interesting stuff in the alt energy section.
- Put the Stanley Steamer, Birth of Speed event on your January calender, along with the NEDRA Battery Beach Burnout.
- Ian Wright’s EV, Wrightspeed X-1, outraces a Ferrari and Porsche at Infineon Raceway.
- In case you hadn’t noticed the link over on the far right side, we have a page of EV Resources that I try to update regularly. Just added Craig’s Electric Daytona. Craig shared an interesting link on the EVList. Check out 3D Content Central, a user library of free 3D models. Just need a 3d program now!
- Horlacher AG’s fiberglass EV Prototypes.
- From Clark, a link to the Mathematics and Economics of Hybrids
- The 400hp DC Motor, with vivisection shunt field photos!
- AC, DC, and Subway Power. “What is a Rotary Converter or Synchronous Converter, Alex.”
- Speaking of cool, old tech if you are in the New England area and like mechanical gizmos you ought to make a trip over to Windsor, VT and check out the American Precision Museum. It’s been a few years since I last visited. Here’s a preview.
- Over the weekend I stumbled across a few pages of in-depth info on Prius and Prius hacking. Some interesting stuff out there. This page has tons of info, but don’t click the link if you don’t have a fast connection and/or lots of spare time. Another detailed page, The 2004 Prius page, also features schematics, graphs, charts, and general hacking (check out his talking Prius movie). There’s also the CalCars project.
- Panasonic EV Energy, here’s the battery I want a bunch of for Christmas.
- Details about the newest, and most efficient Honda Hybrid
- UQM Technologies Vehicle Propulsion
- Electric vs. Gas car cost comparison calculator
- What happens when you accidentally over-rev and blow up a Warp-9 electric motor commutator?
- Speaking of motors, J. Massey has some pics up of his EV motor, mounted and opened up for inspection. He’s converting a ‘78 Daihatsu pickup.
- Black October in the Auto Industry, part I and part II.
- Detroit is rediscovering that mileage matters, “After two decades of high-octane growth in horsepower and heft, Detroit is painfully rediscovering the eat-your-peas merits of fuel economy.”
- For those of you in the Novato, CA area the November NBEAA meeting will be tomorrow, Sunday.
- EVConvert reader, Richard has been busy doing his own EV research and passes along the following conversion links:
- Brad’s Tropica (very interesting battery pack!) and Bradley GT
- Bill’s Mazda Miata
- Mark’s Karmaan Ghia.
- I only found one new EV conversion: Ricky’s Saturn
- Winter’s coming, how about Bio-diesel home heating (TH)
James May's Metro EV · 11 November 05
A month ago I got an email from James May. James lives in Coventry, England and was getting ready to purchase a second hand Electric Car conversion from a local EV supplier.
It’s a 1991 Rover Metro. I’m not sure if that’s him sitting there or not.
The EV needed a new set of batteries and according to James the supplier wanted to fit the EV up with gel/fibremat sealed batteries (AGM). After doing some research, here and elsewhere, he decided to stick with regular lead acid batteries.
- The first production Electric Sports Car: Fétish. Featuring Intel management of the on-board 7,200 lithiums. Here’s a link to the company page with specifications (heavy flash).
- See a plug-in hybrid Prius in Seattle on Monday the 14th, 12:30 at the Seattle Civic Plaza. The City of Seattle is considering joining the National Plug-in Hybrid Campaign, which is being led by the Mayor of Austin.
- Speaking of which ElectroEnergy picked up $1.5 million for their bi-polar NiMH battery work, which they plan to use for plug-in hybrids.
- Students working to create first the world’s first hybrid electric 1932 Ford Roadster spearheaded by Brent Singleton.
- The art of the Electric Snowmobile
- McGill University Electric Snowmobile Team
- Utah State Electric Snowmobile
- The Green snowmobile
- Let us not forget The 600-lb. Cordless Electric Snow Shovel
Housekeeping · 9 November 05
Been working on Eve’s wiring a bit this week, clearing out the unused wires and cleaning up the rest of it. It’s a big task and I’ll post more details in a couple of days. I also have pictures and a bit of info from a new EV owner, James, which I’ll try to post soon.
Also wrapping up a big project at work so my mind has been a bit preoccupied.
Oh, and then there’s that other big project…