- First off welcome to 2007! Starting off the new year I ran across a couple of interesting articles on Stanford Ovshinsky. If you’ve followed EV/Hybrid history his name should ring a bell, being the founder of Ovonics and inventor of the NiMH battery used in most hybrid cars along with the GM EV1. There are a few scenes with him and his wife/business partner in the movie, Who Killed the Electric Car. Stanford has over 300 patents and his latest business/technology venture is photovoltaic panels at Energy Conversion Devices. He has also, somewhat controversially, been working on hydrogen systems for quite some time, and his plant has a Prius hacked to run off of hydrogen instead of gasoline. Wiki entry on Stanford R. Ovshinsky.
- Speaking of which, here’s a brief peek under the floorboards of a fuel cell powered car. DaimlerChrysler spokeswoman Lora Renz said a typical fuel cell car gets about “50 miles per kilogram of hydrogen, equivalent to a gallon of gasoline.” She said the target price of hydrogen is the same as gasoline. Well, duh…but in what year?
- Me and my Sparrow, Valerie Myers’ funky little electric car.
- A few Instructables to start off the year: LED’s for beginners, Serial controlled motor, DIY Wind Generator.
