- Congrats to Gavin on his first EV drive! Youtube version here, some photos over at the DIYEV Forum, and of course straight from the EV’ers mouth at his website.
- And speaking of the DIY EV forum, I’ve been meaning to share a few links to the EV Blog, Forum, and Wiki.
- James passes along a link to an article on The Oil Drum by our Italian EV friends Ugo Bardi and Pietro Cambi.
- Not really a new link or anything, but while watching the baby the other day I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Motor controllers and ran across this line regarding Controls for AC Induction Motors: “Recent developments in drive electronics have allowed efficient and convenient speed control of these motors, where this has not traditionally been the case. The newest advancements allow for torque generation down to zero speed. This allows the polyphase AC induction motor to compete in areas where DC motors have long dominated, and present an advantage in robustness of design, cost, and reduced maintenance.”
- Helping to balance the electrical grid…with your EV.
- Finally a bit of humor to round off the links. Check out Top Gear’s show on the Peel P50. While watching it I kept thinking “…a handful of lithiums, a pancake wheel hub motor.”.
How do we convert Americas infrastructure? 1)Gas Stations begin to store and service E.V. 2) Exxon could supply for lease E.V. per mile profit could be the same. 3) incentivize user groups, business, Ride Share co-ops.4)Job Training. 5) micro lending to groups. 6) Digital Billing, scheduling, diognostics, GPS, using cell phones.7) Plug into city lighting circuits and pay for charge public parking. Is anyone with me out there? Steve
And most importantly, we need to develop some sort of “electric socket” in homes, so we could recharge at night. But that would be literally trillions of dollars of government subsidies to make that happen. :)
What a cool concept. The thing is, not only is the technology sound, but it’s actually superior to how we do things now. Hopefully the EV companies like Zap will help publicize those benefits you mention.