- First off is a trip over to Brian Matheny’s Solar House project. Brian lives in New England and this is his second energy efficient home project (that I’m aware of). He has also converted a few vehicles over the years, including a few electric lawnmowers. Lots of great information.
- Mr. Chaos (going by his email address) sends along a link to the latitude EV project.
- If you are looking for a lightweight design for your EV then Darin may have come across the concept EV kit car of your dreams. It’s kind of like a recumbent electric bike with a great windscreen! I particularly enjoyed his energy efficiency comparison page: the power to do one load of dishes will run his vehicle 25 miles.
- It may be spam or it may be gold: in an email via the contact form comes a message from Mr. Chang at the Advanced Battery Factory in Guang Dong, China advertising their growing collection of LiPoly batteries.
Hey have you heard about Kokam? They make serious LiPo batteries, which a race team is currently using in their electric race car. They have 70, 100 and 200AH versions which run at 3.7v, and the cost of the 70ah version is something like $370
http://www.kokam.com/english/product/battery_main.html
http://www.proev.com/P1Batt.htm