How far do you want it to go? Almost every discussion of electric vehicles STARTS with the concept of range. This is because it has always been the defining limitation of electric cars. In the early days of the Internet, electronic bulletin boards, and online communications, it was always “how fast is your modem connection.” […]
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Somebody called to see if I would be around this week. My response, unfortunately so. You see, I always wanted to be a tall. But it was the whim of genetics and my own proclivity for good food that decreed I should be a ROUND forever. A short show this week. And I like that.
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This week’s show is kind of a hodge podge. Again we are heat limited in Missouri as to actually doing very much. We completed the rear battery boxes on the eCobra and moved to the belly boxes on each side of the vehicle behind the exhaust pipes. We did do a bit of cable work
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This week we welcome Mark Emon of St Michael’s Maryland as our special guest. Mark operates St. Michael’s winery and brought us an interesting Seyval/Chardonnay and an equally delightful Chambourcin. I’m frankly not a fan of North American wine grapes and hybrids. I love to drive the Porsche to a local Missouri or Illinois winery
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This week we feature Richard Rodriguez’s excellent Porsche 914 Targa build. Richard shot an excellent video walk around of this car, which does 100 mph and of course over 100 miles range using somewhat unusual Voltronix batteries from Flux Power. Flux Power was started by the ex-CEO of Aptera Motors. [jwplayer file=”news072211 – iPhone.mov” hd.file=”news072211-1280.mov”
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They say that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man would be named King…. I guess I’m not convinced… This week we ran our longest show ever, and had to cut much of that. It’s feast or famine here, depending on what parts come in or are available. Right now we’re buried. We
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After a week off, we did get a video out this week. It’s a little hosed up. I have the new Final Cut Pro X editing software and it has a few problems I’m struggling with. We had some news on the J1772 front. Clipper Creek actually made some sort of internal error and SHIPPED
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Despite my last post regarding the miniscule number of actual electric cars on the road, and admonition that we are firmly at the BEGINNING of the tinkerer/innovator market stage, the wider press frenzy and flurry of OEM press releases has had an effect of urgency. Although remaining largely unobtanium, the blizzard has certainly spurred the
I have no video for you this week. I’ve been working on my recently moved battery test bench and some new battery tests. Not without some glitches in equipment and process. But more to the point, it was the Holiday Weekend and it was important that we show up in Nashville Tennessee on the occasion
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Pretty good show this week. Fred Behning of Austin sent us a nice video walkaround of his still in progress conversion of a 1960 Bug-Eye Sprite in all it’s blazing yellow glory. This is the kind of upscale quality build of a much loved classic that I am so fond of. For my money, he
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