- One of the challenges to making your own battery monitoring/metering system is keeping the high voltage pack isolated from the car’s 12v system. Sending the signals over fiber optics might be the trick: introduction to fiberoptics. Here’s a learning kit.
- Companies to Develop Electric Vehicle for Demonstration of Altairnano Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery System: press release.
- The birth of the Toyota Prius. Also for reference the hybrid entry over at Wikipedia.
- Plug-in hybrids are still gaining momentum. (this is good news: more batteries, means more research, lower prices, etc..). EVWorld reports that Hymotion, out of Canada, is releasing a plug-in version of the Prius and the Ford Escape hybrids.
