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
- Electric motorcycle, old style (circa 1911).
- Fuel Cell Car kit.
- Instructables web site. Here’s one that might be of interest: Build you own metalworking Lathe.
- Control & Instrumentation for Engineers. Various articles and references. Here’s another collection of symbols.
- Rear Axle Calculator.
- If you are going to get “lit” for the holidays how about LED Christmas lights. According to Seattle’s fact page,
The comparative cost for a season of holiday lighting (based on ten strings of lights burning 8 hours a day for 30 days at City Light’s 2nd block residential rate of $0.0853 cents per kilowatt-hour) is $127.67 for large lights, $7.20 for mini lights, and $0.72 for the new LED lights.
- Seth’s EVs – a 240z and an S10 Conversion. Bonus link: homemade three phase brushless motor.
- How to make a vehicle lighter and safer (760K PDF)
- How to make your Corvette lighter
- Fiberglass fabrication for car audio. There’s also the RQ Riley, Overview of
How to Work With fiberglass Over Urethane Foam. - Making strong and trick-looking carbon composite panels in your garage. “Don’t even think of grinding on your panel near open flames, because the airborne carbon dust will ignite!”
- BMW working on waste heat steam assist drive
- Richard Newman’s new electric car
- Homebuilt RS232 LCD Interface
- Car LCD, maybe some ideas for a system/battery monitor? More here.
- Mac Mini hits the road
- The Venture Fétish electric supercar.
- Kite Wind Generator?
- Install a vertical lift door on your car.
- Replacing door window felt and smooth the window operation.
- 10 Best (gas) Engines of 2005
- Freedom EV Wiki, a 3-wheeler “tadpole” EV with 2 steerable front wheels, 1 driven rear wheel, and 2 side-by-side seats.
- The MIEV (Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle) concept cars.
- Toyota’s new Camry Hybrid to debut in January.
- If you are visiting (or living in) Portland, consider skipping driving altogether and scheduling your transit/walking commute with Google’s new Google Transit
- Maranello electric
- Solar rooftop panel kit for Toyota Prius.
- NEC’s paper thin, rapid recharge organic radical battery.
- RSS toilet paper reader. Hey, make sure your toilet paper is subscribed to EVConvert! Click the links in the lower left of the this page.
- From my old stomping grounds: the North Platte High School students are working on a new design for their next electric car entry in the next Nebraska Power Drive Finals.
- Ceramic Heaters and meter gauges
- Toyota Affirms Its Home Fuel-Cell Power and Heating Plans
- Bio-fuel plant in Wisconson will be the states largest ethanol plant, the country’s biggest tilapia fish farm, include a biodiesel plant and produce carbon dioxide and corn gluten as by-products.
- Another Utopia bites the dust.. “Each perished for different reasons. Spring Hill’s oncoming death is due to its proprietor’s inattention, lack of follow-through, Wall Street and the managerial dunderheadism afflicting the American automobile industry in general.”
- Thinking of an electric motorcycle? Check out El Ninja.
- Steve Heckeroth in Ukiah Daily on electric cars.
- Square Wheels wobbling to your city. Offspring of the square wheeled trike? (thanks Clark)
- Why are rental cars American? (and why no manual transmission dang it!)