- The Sparrow is fun-telligent.
- Victor and Roman Wowk’s electrics.
- A low-cost energy future.
- The hybrid house?
- The promise of plug-in hybrids.
- Electric car service shop in Mesa, AZ.
- Last time there were really high gas prices a company (and perhaps an automaker or two) announced a smog eating radiator. Today it’s an exhaust power system from the UK.
- 67-year-old and her electric vehicle, “I do a lot of joyriding”
- The latest in screw technology: the BOSSCREW for plastics and the Tapcon for cement. The plastic screw means automakers (among others) can now screw directly into plastic without first putting in metal anchors.
- Ford finds religion (for now).
- Solar house project at Washington State University. “You can put this house in the middle of a field, and it would be completely sufficient on its own.”
- If you are over in the Watkins Glen area of New York this Thursday afternoon be sure to check out the Green Grand Prix. More information here.
- Undergrads at the University of Moratuwa make a solar electric car.
- The Nanaimocycle.
- There is a story that is told of a man who was describing to this friend how he drove 30 miles to a saloon because the beer was a nickel a stein cheaper. And the friend says to him, “That’s crazy. I mean, you think of all the gas and oil you use, and the wear and tear on your car to drive there and drive back. I mean, it makes no sense.” He says, “I know, so I drink until I make a profit.”
And so begins Farewell to Oil, a conversation on the future of energy.
- The latest gas-extending gizmo.
- Hybrids and firefighters. I remember similar article sprouting up back when the GM EV1 came out.
- The Germans are joining the party.
- Man, there’s a lot of news about hybrids these days. I think a lot of them are more hype-brid than hybrid…
- Beating the rising price of petrol in the UK
- The G-Whiz:
No road tax, no London congestion charge, free parking in central London, 600 mpg equivalent, group 1 insurance - New technology means new challenges.
Housecleaning... · 18 September 05
The removal of Eve’s engine is awaiting a trip to the store to replace a broken socket, get a 1/2” extension, and to buy a longer 17mm socket to remove the engine mount bolts.
In the meantime I’ve been doing a little housework on the website, cleaning a few things up and making a new section just for Eve.
On the right side you’ll see a new link for Current EV Project. This takes you to a new section of the site dedicated to nothing but Eve’s conversion entries. It has all of the entries organized from the start to present without any of my non-related ramblings and posts (like this one!). You can also click on Eve’s picture in the upper right.
I also added a feature to the pages in how comments are shown on article pages (not this main page). The problem was that the PREV/NEXT links for the articles was way down at the bottom and not all that obvious. So I cleaned them up a bit and in the process hid the comments.
The comments are still there, but are now toggle in and out of visibility using a little bit of web magic found here. Let me know if you have any problems getting to them, I haven’t had the chance to test it on all browsers yet.
Finally, a slightly more pressing matter has been taking time away from the EV: our fridge was dying. It’s only a few years old and some of the parts are still covered under warranty. But who wants to pay someone to come out to tell you that this isn’t the part? I decided to figure out what was wrong first and then call for warranty repair if covered.
The freezer section was working fine but the fridge was sitting at a balmy 64°. Turns out there’s a little vent of sorts that let’s cold air from the freezer into the fridge. The main fridge compartment temperature is regulated by a little electric motor (see, this does apply to an EV web site!) that opened a venetian blind of sorts, letting in or blocking airflow. It was permanently closed.
I cracked it open and have discovered the culprit: a cheesy little piece of plastic had broken. Someone on the Kenmore engineering team should be embarrassed about designing such a weak link.
Maybe I’ll post an article about it over at my other site, The How Zone, when I’m done fixing it.
- Don’s Solar powered scooter. 932 solar powered miles and counting… (more details/pics here)
- Bob’s Honda Civic EV Project, a work in progress.
- World Carfree day is September 22nd. Zeke and I will celebrate with a leisurely walk to work…followed by a couple of lovely biscuits.
- Tips on photographing your car.
- Lighting box for photographing parts.
- Not EV related but I thought it was interesting all the same. Our neighbors up at Dartmouth College have developed the world’s smallest robot.
- All I want for Christmas is a NexxtDrive.
- Hybrids are the talk of the Frankfurt auto show. German automakers point out (again and again) that modern diesel’s are as efficient/clean as a gas hybrid. But what about a diesel hybrid?
- Advanced human powered vehicles from AVD