Well, it’s the week of Turkey Day, and as one of the larger and less flight prone Turkeys in the area, a time that always makes me uneasy. Actually, both my wife and I are excellent cooks, accounting for my unfortunate girth, and Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Family visit and good food, […]
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Interesting week. We had a visit from Wayne Alexander of EV-Blue Conversions in Walton Kansas. We had a great time talking, which he does love to do, and I may have overrun my budget of time for him on the show, but I thought I would include most of it for a couple of reasons.
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In this week’s episode, we assemble new mounts for the 2009 Mini Cooper Clubman drive train – somewhat colorfully. We also wrap up our Vantage Green Van Battery Makeover. We have thrown out 775 lbs of AGM lead acid batteries and replaced them with 27 High-Power brand 200AH cells that I never liked well enough
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This week, we received a copy of a new JD Power and Associates study on the adoption of Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles. Note that they do make an appropriate distinction. The Study is subtitled More Hope than Reality, and indeed it paints a bleak picture. In my opinion, JD Power and Associates is one
This week is a bit of one of those “aha” moments which is what I’m really in this stuff about. I recently received a kind of strangely critical note from someone with the Minnesota Electric Vehicle Association and consequently visited their site to see what was up in the great north. What I found was
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Yes, I’m a little late with the Blog Post this week. We journeyed to Bremen Indiana this past week using “The Legend” a DC-3 we fly all too rarely these days. Pete Malone joined us on this trip to keep me from killing us all as I fly so little these days. The weather was
Strange week. A lot going on. Reminds me of the early days of Boardwatch Magazine. First, the contest. We’re launched. And we’re getting a very encouraging number of entries. Reading through them, as I noted in a recent post, I’m not sure I’m up to this emotionally. We’re probably going to quick scan 100 promising
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We’ve been wrangling over chargers and controllers for weeks. But I’ll delay no further. We are going to announce a contest for $20,000 worth of EV components that we believe will be the most popular promotion we’ve ever done. I hear constantly from people with great ideas for an electric vehicle, but who are very
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This week we formally announce a project I’ve alluded to in the past – the conversion of a 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT pickup truck to electric drive. From the get go, we’re going to do this a little differently from what you might expect. Our first choice is drive train and we’re going a little
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A lot of neat things happening with Video. I saw this coming back in 1996 but particularly called it two years ago. Traditionally print magazine publishers, I saw video as the next “disruptive” publishing technology. It’s not there yet. The Canon Vixia cameras have made it where you really can shoot HD video in a
