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-Jerry
- Ok, this isn’t really EV or even automotive related, but it’s the kind of thing I’m sure you can appreciate: Home Automation in the Netherlands. All kinds of home automation tracking and logging: security, lighting, weather, phones, fridge, power consumption, and even toilet flushes. The how page explains some of it (including how, like me, he got started in computers with the Sinclair ZX80).
- Competitor teardowns.
- Milwaukee tool powered electric car (video clip at the bottom). The current guess is that sometime in April they’ll be showing this episode of Monster Garage. A couple guys from the EVList did the EV work: building a race EV in the period of a few days using a heavy donor and all kinds of high-end parts.
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- Toyota’s CS&S Concept Hybrid car rolling out in 2008? “An electric motor drives the front wheels, while a gas engine and electric motor in combination drive the rear.”
- A short article on Ultracapacitors over a Hybrid cars. If you are in a reading mood be sure to check out the earlier post on Toyota’s PHEV, especially the huge number of comments.
- They’ll be starting to take orders for the Lithium Carbon Fiber Super Car in April. Chump change at $124,900. ”:^) From Hybrid Technologies.
- Got some spare time? Plenty of antacid? Head on over to /. for this “lively discussion” on Has World Oil Production Passed Its Peak?.
- A biodiesel hybrid built by the West Philadelphia High School. Here’s a multi-media presentation breaking out the major components. The school’s homepage and gallery.
- An interesting conversion: 1955 Jeep Kit Car.
- I haven’t tried it on this website, but http://co.mments.com/ comment tracking might be handy.
- TRW is developing advanced braking technology for hybrid braking. “Slip Control Boost offers a fully integrated TRW stability and brake actuation system that replaces traditional boosters, master cylinders and vacuum pumps with an electro-hydraulic control unit (EHCU), and brake pedal simulator unit with a twin master cylinder to supply brake pressure.” JC over at After Gutenberg follows up with: Brake by Wire.
- Seattle’s drive towards fewer cars. “Assuming the same percentage of people continued driving alone to work, the city estimates it would have to build 20 city blocks of 10-story parking garages downtown.”
- Short interview with Andrew Frank University of California at Davis on plug-in hybrids.
- From time to time other web sites show up in the log files when someone links to us. Sometimes the discussions are interesting, or at least provide a new perspective. Here’s a couple from this week: MX6.com and TeamSwift.net.
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- How green can you get? Four versions of the Smart ForTwo: Electric, Mild hybrid, Full hybrid, and CNG.
- Top Ten Hybrid Myths over at HybridCars.com
- KingElvis takes on the split personalities of GM
- AFS to develop plug-in drive train. Ok, I’m all for advances in electric drive systems and teaming them up with gas engines to get the best performance out of each, but these claims of 250 miles per gallon really need to stop, or at least be better explained. It’s not that you get 250 miles per gallon: it’s that you use electricity (which costs money) AND gasoline to reach this magical number and only once per trip, i.e. you can’t go on a 1000 mile trip using only 4 gallons of gas. Using this sneaky 250 mpg logic I could put a gallon of gas in the trunk of a pure EV and claim to get infinite miles per gallon!
- Old news, but tragically funny all the same. “After President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic advisor said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it literally.”
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- Sweden is shooting for an oil-free economy within 15 years.
- How to make an electric car, battery, solar cell, gasoline and more, from How Products are Made.
- MIT Carbon Nanotube Ultracapacitor could approach storage density of batteries.
- It only takes one, Ergosphere on the promise of barium-titanate ultracapacitors.
- Meanwhile Darin has been testing Warm Air Intake as a possible fuel savings move.
- The ESpyder, custom built zero emissions electric car.
- Mitsubishi to introduce another in-wheel electric car (hey, maybe they could start selling in-wheel electric motors, too?)
- Revised EPA fuel economy labeling rule issued
- Sorry for the lack of updates, been away on vacation enjoying the warm (dry!) weather in Arizona. Even the high elevations of Flagstaff are warm and dry, which has been a nice treat after the cold/warm/wet cycle in New England this Winter.
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- Daystar Annunces Schedule to Become Gigawatt Producer of solar cells.
- Lights, Camera, Traction – Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance
- Volkswagen and Sanyo teaming up on hybrid batteries