We had a bit of a visit this week from George Hamstra of Netgain Motors, and took advantage of the visit to interview him on camera – mostly about earlier careers and how he got started with electric vehicles and Netgain Motors. Netgain’s Warp 9 is inarguably the workhorse among the conversion community and he […]
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This week we celebrate departure of the Speedster Part Duh Thursday afternoon to Bremen Indiana for evaluation and examination by the pros at Special Edition Inc. It will be interesting to learn their reaction to this vehicle. A number of their customers have done electric drive installations on their rollers, and they have been very
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This week we start to wrap up the Speedster Part Duh and send it off to Special Editions Inc. in Bremen so they can have a look at what we’ve wrought. We did something a little unusual in the video. We have found a way to do “pretty good” audio in a windy convertible. And
I finally got a Friday video up on Friday. This week we talk about the fix for our Mini Cooper Clubman air conditioning (many thanks Marcus Siegert) – a simple high current diode on the positive input. [jwplayer file=”news081310-1280 – iPhone.mov” hd.file=”news081310-1280.mov” image=”http://media.ev-tv.me/news081310.jpg” streamer=”rtmp://s3jgrp4mv5fnqx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st” provider=”rtmp” html5_file=”http://media.ev-tv.me/news081310 – iPhone.mov” download_file=”http://media.ev-tv.me/news081310-1280.mov”] We also introduce our latest project
We completed some initial performance testing yesterday on Speedster Part Duh. We had rather carefully spec’s a very different transaxle for this version in an attempt to get all four gears in the game in an attempt to duplicate the driving characteristics of the original Speedster, and perhaps of course improve upon them where able.
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I’ve cobbled together some “pictorial diagrams” showing the wiring of the Speedster. These are a bit awkward. Rather than drawing schematics, I’ve kind of put together a bit of a wiring diagram using little pictures that might be more understandable to those unaccustomed to schematic diagrams, and probably annoying to those who are. I’ve split
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We took two DC-3s with 26 people to a gathering of some 25 DC-3’s from around the country in Rock Falls, Illinois. It was a cooling break from the weather here and a good time was had by all. We flew in formation from Rock Falls to the opening day at Oshkosh Wisconsin for the
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Eric Kriss of Krissmotors has been following our progress for some time. He has successfully built an excellent Cobra kit car in the past and has some experience with the Saab Sonnet fiberglass sports car. He is working on a Speedster Part Duh and has been following the shows and offering some suggestions with peculiarly
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I was able to post this week’s video ON Friday. We shot a good bit of it last week. So this week we do a 4C load test of four CALB 100AH cells. The test actually consists of 40 pulses of 400AMPS lasting 2.5AH or about 30 seconds. The CALB cells list 4C for 30
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In our first initial drives with the Mini, we were getting apparent ranges that matched my calculations for range initially without regen. We had assumed we would get some extension in range from having our first car with regenerative braking. After just a few drives, it became apparent to me that with 100AH pack, and
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