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
- After exhausting research they’ve come up with this.
- Gas tax hike proposal is finding few supporters. The revenue would “fund tax breaks for Americans to convert their cars to hybrid technology or biofuels, fund a Manhattan Project to develop alternatives for energy independence, and subsidize mass-transit systems for our major cities,”
- Hacking hybrids for greater fuel efficiency.
- 48-volt Ultra-Capacitor unveiled by Maxwell Technologies. More at GCC.
- Cow powered cars? Dung battery, “While that’s a very small amount of voltage, the results show that it is possible to create electricity from cow waste,” Christy said.
- Efficiency of an electric car lab.
- United Nuclear hydrogen car kits. Although at the moment the only items shown available are a solar panel, rubber hose, and t-shirt…
- Low rolling resistant tires.
- Another good reason not to drive gas cars?
- A wood chip powered car?
- Summary of the hype-brid news out of the Frankfurt auto show.
- The Sparrow is fun-telligent.
- Victor and Roman Wowk’s electrics.
- A low-cost energy future.
- The hybrid house?
- The promise of plug-in hybrids.
- Electric car service shop in Mesa, AZ.
- Last time there were really high gas prices a company (and perhaps an automaker or two) announced a smog eating radiator. Today it’s an exhaust power system from the UK.
- 67-year-old and her electric vehicle, “I do a lot of joyriding”
- The latest in screw technology: the BOSSCREW for plastics and the Tapcon for cement. The plastic screw means automakers (among others) can now screw directly into plastic without first putting in metal anchors.
- Ford finds religion (for now).
- Solar house project at Washington State University. “You can put this house in the middle of a field, and it would be completely sufficient on its own.”
- If you are over in the Watkins Glen area of New York this Thursday afternoon be sure to check out the Green Grand Prix. More information here.
- Undergrads at the University of Moratuwa make a solar electric car.
- The Nanaimocycle.
- There is a story that is told of a man who was describing to this friend how he drove 30 miles to a saloon because the beer was a nickel a stein cheaper. And the friend says to him, “That’s crazy. I mean, you think of all the gas and oil you use, and the wear and tear on your car to drive there and drive back. I mean, it makes no sense.” He says, “I know, so I drink until I make a profit.”
And so begins Farewell to Oil, a conversation on the future of energy.
- The latest gas-extending gizmo.
- Hybrids and firefighters. I remember similar article sprouting up back when the GM EV1 came out.
- The Germans are joining the party.
- Man, there’s a lot of news about hybrids these days. I think a lot of them are more hype-brid than hybrid…