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
- Interesting flywheel adaptor over at leftcoastconversions.com. This is the fifth EV conversion for Reverend Gadget, who was part of the Discovery Channel’s BIG series. Additional interesting stuff in the alt energy section.
- Put the Stanley Steamer, Birth of Speed event on your January calender, along with the NEDRA Battery Beach Burnout.
- Ian Wright’s EV, Wrightspeed X-1, outraces a Ferrari and Porsche at Infineon Raceway.
- In case you hadn’t noticed the link over on the far right side, we have a page of EV Resources that I try to update regularly. Just added Craig’s Electric Daytona. Craig shared an interesting link on the EVList. Check out 3D Content Central, a user library of free 3D models. Just need a 3d program now!
- Horlacher AG’s fiberglass EV Prototypes.
- From Clark, a link to the Mathematics and Economics of Hybrids
- The 400hp DC Motor, with vivisection shunt field photos!
- AC, DC, and Subway Power. “What is a Rotary Converter or Synchronous Converter, Alex.”
- Speaking of cool, old tech if you are in the New England area and like mechanical gizmos you ought to make a trip over to Windsor, VT and check out the American Precision Museum. It’s been a few years since I last visited. Here’s a preview.
- Over the weekend I stumbled across a few pages of in-depth info on Prius and Prius hacking. Some interesting stuff out there. This page has tons of info, but don’t click the link if you don’t have a fast connection and/or lots of spare time. Another detailed page, The 2004 Prius page, also features schematics, graphs, charts, and general hacking (check out his talking Prius movie). There’s also the CalCars project.
- Panasonic EV Energy, here’s the battery I want a bunch of for Christmas.
- Details about the newest, and most efficient Honda Hybrid
- UQM Technologies Vehicle Propulsion
- Electric vs. Gas car cost comparison calculator
- What happens when you accidentally over-rev and blow up a Warp-9 electric motor commutator?
- Speaking of motors, J. Massey has some pics up of his EV motor, mounted and opened up for inspection. He’s converting a ‘78 Daihatsu pickup.
- Black October in the Auto Industry, part I and part II.
- Detroit is rediscovering that mileage matters, “After two decades of high-octane growth in horsepower and heft, Detroit is painfully rediscovering the eat-your-peas merits of fuel economy.”
- For those of you in the Novato, CA area the November NBEAA meeting will be tomorrow, Sunday.
- EVConvert reader, Richard has been busy doing his own EV research and passes along the following conversion links:
- Brad’s Tropica (very interesting battery pack!) and Bradley GT
- Bill’s Mazda Miata
- Mark’s Karmaan Ghia.
- I only found one new EV conversion: Ricky’s Saturn
- Winter’s coming, how about Bio-diesel home heating (TH)
- The first production Electric Sports Car: Fétish. Featuring Intel management of the on-board 7,200 lithiums. Here’s a link to the company page with specifications (heavy flash).
- See a plug-in hybrid Prius in Seattle on Monday the 14th, 12:30 at the Seattle Civic Plaza. The City of Seattle is considering joining the National Plug-in Hybrid Campaign, which is being led by the Mayor of Austin.
- Speaking of which ElectroEnergy picked up $1.5 million for their bi-polar NiMH battery work, which they plan to use for plug-in hybrids.
- Students working to create first the world’s first hybrid electric 1932 Ford Roadster spearheaded by Brent Singleton.
- The art of the Electric Snowmobile
- McGill University Electric Snowmobile Team
- Utah State Electric Snowmobile
- The Green snowmobile
- Let us not forget The 600-lb. Cordless Electric Snow Shovel