Welcome to the Electric Car Weblog. In addition to links, news, and tips about electric cars and other forms of alternative transportation we are publishing an on-line diary of our current EV project. Started in August 2005 the chronicle follows the conversion of a gas powered Ford Probe into an Electric Car.
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
- Hyundai Greenspeed Gator fuel cell dragster concept.
- I just like saying Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces
- Cogeneration thoughts from the Ergosphere
- NEVs still not allowed in Pennsylvania
- Smokin!
- The Happy Messenger Chinese Electric Car
- Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity, Electric Vehicles
- All Darin wanted for Christmas was a plug-in hybrid push trailer (no word if Santa heard him…)
- Article over at the Energy Blog on Flywheels for energy storage.
- Mercedes LCD instrument dash
- The lithium battery breakthrough in RCs
- The world’s first AC motor for golf cars (and maybe NEVs?)
- SAAB flex-fuel BioPower is a best seller in Sweden.
- Convert anything
- Not at all related to EVs (well, maybe you could use for making battery water?) but a cool idea all the same, the WaterCone.
- Build it yourself, compact 80A Automotive Ammeter
- Fun with Thermodynamic Toys
- Big and Bad: “The truth, underneath all the rationalizations, seemed to be that S.U.V. buyers thought of big, heavy vehicles as safe: they found comfort in being surrounded by so much rubber and steel. To the engineers, of course, that didn’t make any sense, either: if consumers really wanted something that was big and heavy and comforting, they ought to buy minivans, since minivans, with their unit-body construction, do much better in accidents than S.U.V.s.”
- Insight into the Fate of Honda’s Fuel-Efficiency Champ.
- EVForge, a place for people who are involved or interested in the development, conversion, and experimentation of EVs (Electric Vehicles) to gather and share information and resources.
- Battery charging circuits
- Lister slow speed, cold start diesel generator project. Hmm, biodiesel?
- Toyota Yaris, future EV conversion candidate? Drag coefficient of 0.29 and probably very light.
- Restoring power brakes
- $7,000 to upgrade an S-10EV to the latest NiMH battery pack. Hmm, maybe we could dress Eve up as an S-10?
- Change comes hard to the US (editorial).
- Meanwhile Honda is entering the solar cell market for home and vehicles.
- Magenn Power’s new Air Rotor System. (via TH)
- Time to revisit our friends over at MetroMPG. Although the Canadian winter weather has put a major damper on Darin’s quest to experiment and improve MPG, he’s managed to put together a couple great posts: Grill Blocking (i.e. aerodynamics) and an ode to the lowly block heater.
- Manual Transmission Basics ...teeth on the dog clutch.
- 2006 Tour de Sol Driving Toward Zero Carbon Emissions, May 10-14, 2006 Saratoga Springs, NY.
- Electric car quick charge systems.
- EV Motor Calculator
- Myer’s Motors EV pricing program