[EVDL] QUB Electric DeLorean on the road by 2016
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/back-to-dunmurray-delorean-belfast-reunion-celebrates-1980s-miracle-1.2198841 ... electrical-engineering students from Queen’s University Belfast are working on an electric version of a DeLorean. May 4, 2015 Amanda Ferguson [dated] [video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXDwZEgkZ8 QUB Electric DeLorean - Electrical Engineering at Queen's ... Video for Queen's University Belfast electric DeLorean 3:13 Feb 16, 2015 - Uploaded by QUB2000 http://www.facebook.com/QUBEV Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Queen's University ... ] ... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27147947 DeLorean: Queen's University Belfast students build all-electric iconic car By Mervyn Jess BBC News NI 25 April 2014 [image http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/74436000/jpg/_74436334_p1000147.jpg The vehicle was brought back to Belfast from a cow shed in County Leitrim ] Media caption The students are hoping to make the car run on electric power An iconic DeLorean car built in Belfast in the 1980s is the centrepiece of a special project by students in the city. The DeLorean was made famous when one featured as Marty McFly's time machine in the Back to the Future films. Instead of a flux capacitor, students at Queen's University are aiming to give a highly-charged boost to the iconic vehicle. They have embarked on a year-long project that will have them looking back... to the future. Their mission is to restore and electrify the DeLorean. The vehicle was brought back to Belfast from a cow shed in County Leitrim. It had been built at DeLorean's Dunmurry plant on the outskirts of the city in the early 1980s and shipped to the United States. After spending years on the sunny roads of South Carolina, it was eventually returned to Ireland by a car collector. Now the gull-winged stainless steel car has been stripped down and the task is about working out how to bring it roaring back into the 21st century. Undergraduate Jake Mercer is a member of the project team. He said the car was getting an electrical makeover. "It'll have cool speedos and you will be able to Bluetooth your phone to it. This is all part of a learning project. However, the restored DeLorean will have just as much charisma as the old car," he said. Another member of the restoration team is Nikki Jackson who has a close family connection to the DeLorean motor car. "My granddad actually worked for DeLorean at the time they were being built, so I felt it would be a good idea to work on one of the cars myself. I never pictured myself doing something like this when I started studying at Queen's," she said. 'Electrified' Fellow student Niamh Tohill is equally excited by the project. "It was a real wow factor when I first walked into the garage and saw the DeLorean sitting there. It was like... it's real... it's there," she said. Dr David Laverty, a lecturer in electrical engineering at Queen's, is overseeing the project. He said using a DeLorean was a "no-brainer" once they were offered the chance to get their hands on one. "The purpose of the project is to encourage school kids to consider careers in electrical engineering," he said. "I was a big Back to the Future fan when I was growing up. The car remains iconic and well known amongst people of all ages. So when we were looking for a project I thought, wouldn't it be really cool to build an electric car out of a DeLorean." They aim to have the car "electrified" by October 2015. So it is pedal to the metal for these students, and as Dr Emmett Brown in Back to the Future might say: "Where they're going, they won't need roads." [© 2015 BBC] ... http://pureenergycentre.com/a-delorean-car-converted-into-an-electric-vehicle-by-students/ A DeLorean Car Converted Into An Electric Vehicle By Students January 9, 2014 By Pure Energy Centre On 6th June 2013 a project was launched at Queens University in Belfast, enabling 10 students to convert a DeLorean into an electric vehicle! http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/News/Title,481608,en.html QUB Electric DeLorean Project [image http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/News/Image1optional,481608,en.jpg QUB DeLorean electric car ] Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Queen's University are undertaking a novel project which involves the conversion of a 1981 DeLorean sports car from a petrol engine to one operated by electrical propulsion. This unique project is being is being led by Dr David Laverty, a lecturer in the School. Belfast is the home of the DeLorean Motor Company, with the original manufacturing plant located just five miles from where the car will be converted into the Car of the Future. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors. The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scienti
[EVDL] EVLN: dbtc.edu.ph students built Servant-One e-jeepney from “junk”
http://technology.inquirer.net/42078/don-bosco-students-build-e-jeepney-from-junk-name-it-servant-one
Don Bosco students build e-jeepney, name it ‘Servant One’
Aries Joseph Hegina May 5th, 2015
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“Servant One” is said to be the first e-jeepney completely assembled by
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Don Bosco Technical College Mechanical Engineering students Rodette
Astoriano, Michale Tan and Joseph Santos who assembled the “Servant One”
electric jeepney. Photo by Aries Joseph Hegina/INQUIRER.net
He said that the idea to assemble the Servant One came when they entered the
Shell Eco-Marathon, an annual competition which featured smarter mobility
and energy efficiency in vehicles.
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WHAT?! Building an electric vehicle from “junk”?
That was exactly what five college students from Don Bosco Technical College
in Mandaluyong City did in making an electric jeepney, which they hope to
see plying the country’s roads soon.
Taking inspiration from the name of US presidential plane “Air Force One,”
graduating Mechanical Engineering students Rodette Astoriano, Michael Tan,
Joseph Santos, Kenneth Magracia and Christopher Llorente from Don Bosco
Technical College in Mandaluyong City named their electric jeepney as
“Servant One.”
The group claims that Servant One is the first e-jeepney in the country
assembled by students with the guidance of their advisers.
Making the e-vehicle ‘with soul’
During the launching of the e-jeep before sponsors, school administrators
and faculty members on Tuesday, team leader Astoriano narrated how his group
came up with the electric vehicle.
Astoriano said that the body of the electric vehicle was made of discarded
multicab that they bought from a junk shop for P15,000 and retrofitted with
parts they imported from abroad.
The money for the components of the e-jeep was pooled from the donations of
the school alumni, private benefactors and city officials.
The 8-seater e-jeep is powered by lithium ion battery.
The school’s rector, Fr. Vitaliano Dimaranan, SDB, hailed the students’
feat, hoping that Servant One will be ready for nationwide distribution.
“Despite so many limitations we have (gone through), you pulled this
through. And you came out with something that is really worth sharing for
the rest of the country,” Dimaranan said.
The school rector took the Servant One for a ride as he drove around the
school quadrangle.
On the other hand, engineer Paul Catalan, one of the group’s advisers,
praised the students for making technology “with a soul.”
“We have faced oil dependence, air pollution. For many years, our
institution’s battle cry has ‘technology with a soul’…We believe that
electrifying our transport system will be potentially good. Today, we have
shown that an electric vehicle can be built by students and that it is more
efficient and cleaner than conventional vehicles,” he said.
Future plans
Astoriano shared his group’s plans for the future of the electric jeepney,
which is seen as the future of land transportation in the country.
He said that he wants the Servant One to utilize solar energy and to become
sustainable.
“We are hoping that the future students who will handle the e-jeepney to
conduct future studies so that the Servant One can become self-sustaining,
such as putting solar panels on the vehicle’s roof. We also want them to
plan the charging stations for the e-jeepney,” he said.
One of his dreams is for the Servant One to be funded by corporations so
that it could be mass assembled and that it could be utilized by Mandaluyong
City residents in the near future.
Non-governmental organization Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities
(ICSC) introduced the first e-Jeepney in the Philippines in 2007. For its
first run, 20 e-jeepneys assembled in the country plied routes inside
Salcedo and Legaspi villages.
In 2014, 20 electric vehicles named “Comet” or the City-Optimized Managed
Electric Transport were rolled out to take passengers on a 22-kilometer
route from SM North Edsa to LRT-Katipunan station.
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Don Bosco students build e-jeepney, name it 'Servant One'
May 8th, 2015 Astoriano said that the body of the electric vehicle was made
of discarded ... Today, we have shown that an electric vehicle can be built
by students ...
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Cebuano behind e-jeep’s hi-tech features
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http://motioncars.inquirer.net/32186/comet-electric-jeep-debuts-in-quezon-city
Comet electric jeep debuts in Quezon City
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[EVDL] EVLN: Cheap, but lovable communist E.German Trabant going electric
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/drive/article/cheap-sputtering-but-lovable-german-electric-trabant Cheap, sputtering but lovable German electric Trabant May 6, 2015 — Bloomberg [image http://www.themalaymailonline.com/images/sized/ez/trabant3009_620_384_100.jpg Trabant cars parked in front of the German embassy in Prague to mark the East German exodus in Prague September 30, 2014. — Reuters pic ] BERLIN, May 6 — Watch out, BMW, a new German rival is on the scene: The sputtering, yet lovable Trabant is getting an electric makeover 25 years after the country’s reunification. A power company is refitting the plucky little car built for the communist East’s proletariat with an electric motor, giving the vehicle an emission-free range almost equivalent to BMW AG’s high-tech i3 electric. Technology firm ReeVOLT says it’s created the e-Trabant to show the environmental virtues of retrofitting existing vehicles with electric motors. The unit of utility WEMAG AG also sells electric versions of vehicles such as the Fiat 500 and Ford Ka. Driving the 38-horsepower electric Trabi, with no power steering and weak brakes, is a little like taking a bumper car onto the open road and stepping on the gas. “This is a lot quieter than my old Trabi used to be,” said Helmut Lettow, a 61-year-old resident of Bremerhaven, as he wrestled the creaking car onto the road heading north out of Binz, a town on the German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. “It accelerates a lot faster.” Lettow bought a Trabant back in 1973 when he was a teenager growing up in the West. East Germany exported some of the 3.1 million Trabis it produced to get hard currency and sold the car for less than half what Volkswagen AG charged at the time for the Beetle. More than 40 years later, Lettow paid €29 (RM116) to drive the electric version for a 2 1/2 hour nostalgia tour. Ruegen’s tourism agency, which started the programme in April in partnership with ReeVOLT, has painted its e-Trabis bright orange with the island’s decals on the sides. U2 video The car was made famous in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall as East Germans clogged the roads. The rock group U2 filmed a version of the music video to “One” with a Trabant, after falling in love with the car while recording the album “Achtung Baby” in Berlin. Classic styling — round headlamps, a smiling front grille and a huggable, stubby body — has helped make it a collector’s item. In its heyday, the Trabant filled the streets of communist countries such as Poland, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia. Made from a shell of resin and cotton waste, the vehicle cost the equivalent of an average worker’s annual salary, and people often waited more than a decade to get one. An e-Trabi costs about €15,000 — €12,000 for the ReeVOLT kit, €2,000 for a Trabant and €1,000 for labour — or about half the price of BMW’s i3, according to Andre Schmidt, a ReeVOLT spokesman. Lawnmower engine The e-Trabi, with a flat-screen display to show how much energy it’s used and produced, has traded the distinctive thwack-thwack of the two-stroke motor — think lawnmower — for electric-driven silence. Other changes to the car are minimal. There’s barely space for two adults to squeeze into the rear bench seat, and safety features such as rear seat belts and front headrests are missing. Of course, the Trabi also won’t network with a driver’s phone or beep if it gets too close to surrounding vehicles. Still, the car boasts a 130-kilometre range, compared to 160 kilometres for the BMW, and charges in about 5 1/2 hours from a household socket. The top speed is 110 kph, Schmidt said. That’s to give the sluggish brakes a chance to stand up against the immediate pickup of the electric engine. “It takes off like a rocket,” he said. “You could build a real race Trabant, but of course we wanted it to be sensible.” Nostalgia Lettow’s e-Trabi convoy stopped at Prora, a Nazi-era resort designed to house 20,000 vacationers in 4.5 kilometers of identical hotel blocks, and parked above the port that once received goods from the Soviet Union and now gets mostly Swedish tourists. When the tour later dropped in on Sassnitz, a village that draws tourists for fish sandwiches, some passers-by took pictures and asked for a peek under the hood. Nostalgia aside, Lettow wasn’t sure he’d actually buy an e- Trabi of his own. Insurance is a lot more expensive now than when he was driving two cars and a motorcycle around northern Germany at age 19. “It was just an idea I had when I was young,” he said. “It was a bit silly.” [© themalaymailonline.com] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ http://q13fox.com/2015/05/07/wheels-stolen-from-car-parked-at-sea-tac-airport/ "I’ve got a totally non-sexy EV, so I don’t have too much of a fear" https://tribkcpq.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/promo255331109.jpg ... http://wqad.com/2015/05/08/driver-shocked-when-he-sees-what-happened-to-his-car-parked-at-seattle-area-airport/ Driver shocked at
[EVDL] EVLN: unsw.edu.au students' 1st.au road-legal PV-sports-EV
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/team-of-students-from-unsw-close-to-creating-australias-first-road-legal-solar-sports-car/story-fnjwq0cn-1227337870233 Team of students from UNSW close to creating Australia’s first road legal solar sports car MATTHEW DUNN, news.com.au May 05, 2015 [images http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870408-684f88fe-f2e2-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg SunSwift has already broken a world record, now for the new challenge http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870179-42f09fcc-f2e1-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg Currently the battery pack and solar panels mean the car can reach distances of 800km from a single charge http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870207-d53dfe0c-f2e0-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg An artist impression of how the road legal vehicle would look video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLoQ_-KLwH4 eVe - Australia's First Road Legal Solar Car UNSWSunswift Nov 30, 2014 MAKE A PLEDGE AT http://www.pozible.com/project/188925 and receive some awesome rewards. Every little helps! ] AN ambitious team of undergraduate students from the University of New South Wales are on the brink of creating the Southern Hemisphere’s first road legal solar sports car. Having built and raced five generations of solar sports cars, SunSwift’s latest prototype eVe holds the world record for the fastest electric vehicle over a distance of 500 kilometres on a single battery charge. Now, the team are taking on the gruelling task of redesigning and rebuilding almost every aspect of the vehicle to make it street legal. Business Manager Rob Ireland said the challenge was in creating a solar powered vehicle that met the Australian Design Rules. “To be able to register the car for the road, we need to include side impact protection, windscreen wipers, headlights and a number of other components,” he told news.com.au. “Making these changes will add weight to the vehicle, so its energy system will also need an upgrade.” Mr Ireland said the team wanted to make the vehicle equally as practical, stylish and functional as a regular car. “To make the vehicle a commercially viable product and not just a science experiment, we need to offer the luxuries found in a petrol powered car,” he said. “We want a two-seat car that can travel long distances at very high speeds without losing the comfort.” As Sunswift is an entirely student-led, not-for-profit organisation, the team rely on donations and sponsorships to continue operating. “Other teams working on similar projects have multi-million dollar budgets and we don’t receive anything close to that,” he said. “To think we are just some Aussie battlers fighting against the odds and competing on the world stage is pretty rewarding.” SunSwift hope to have the car finished by July. [© News Corp 2015] http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/solar-good-australian-students-aim-5644272 Solar so good as Australian students aim to get sun-powered car street-legal 6 May 2015 By Phil Lanning [image http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article5644258.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Sunswift.jpg Sunswift eVe solar car ] A student team from Australia's University of New South Wales are hoping to make striking race car Sunswift eVe ready for roads FED UP with hearing about diesel emissions and rising fuel costs? Well this sensational vehicle ditches the lot because it is SOLAR-POWERED. A student team from Australia's University of New South Wales are hoping to make the race car Sunswift eVe street-legal by July. It has already smashed international speed records as authenticated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – the governing body for motorsports – as the fastest electric car over 500km on a single charge. Now they have to make it road-legal by changing the suspension, windscreen and headlights – but need more funding of around £50,000. The team's business manager Rob Ireland admitted: “The aim of the record was to prove that electric cars can travel very long distances at high speeds. "We've proven the car can do all these cool things, but can it be commercial? Can anybody drive this car everyday to work? That's the question.” I've actually driven a solar-powered car built by UK students on Ford's proving ground in Dunton, Essex – it was the most uncomfortable vehicle I've driven in my life. But clearly technology is advancing. There's a catch – there always is. The price of this solar concept is £250,000 – although that price would drop dramatically if mass produced. The other problem is that solar-power works brilliantly under the blazing hot sun in Australia. We might have a slight problem in gloomy Glasgow! [© dailyrecord.co.uk] ... http://www.malaysiandigest.com/technology/552655-this-solar-powered-race-car-will-be-street-legal-by-july.html This Solar-Powered Race Car Will Be Street-Legal By July 07 May 2015 http://sunswift.com/eve.html UNSW Sunswift eVe is the fifth gen
Re: [EVDL] Inexpensive retiree-friendly EV?
Our iMiev has served us really well, and is much easier to get in and out of than a Leaf, which is probably a consideration for older people. Some people can't get past the looks, but once you get in and drive it, you appreciate the spartan (easy) interface, visibility (as compared to the Leaf), space inside, ease of parking, and good capability. And, used prices are now quite low because a lot of the lease deals made back in 2013 are coming due. Low mile 2012 iMiev's are listed anywhere from $7.5 to $10k. If you want to go for a new one, some people have found some amazing deals (one guy under $10k) after the federal and state tax credits - though finding new might be a little harder as Mitsubishi hasn't shipped a lot of 2014 or 2016 models. (Incidentally, I don't know of any "teething pains" on the iMiev; ther's been only minor recall work since we had it, I'm not aware of any heat related issues on the battery pack and I've heard of only a couple pack failures in the US.) You can see several people on the www.myimiev.com/forum/ has a lot of information including several threads on buying a used iMiev. Good luck! Dan - Dan Gallagher http://www.evalbum.com/3854 -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Inexpensive-retiree-friendly-EV-tp4675387p4675448.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
Re: [EVDL] Inexpensive retiree-friendly EV?
I love mine as well. I let a friend drive who was trying to find a Leaf, two weeks later he drove up in an i-MiEV. Sent from my iPhone > On May 10, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Danpatgal via EV wrote: > > Our iMiev has served us really well, and is much easier to get in and out of > than a Leaf, which is probably a consideration for older people. Some > people can't get past the looks, but once you get in and drive it, you > appreciate the spartan (easy) interface, visibility (as compared to the > Leaf), space inside, ease of parking, and good capability. And, used prices > are now quite low because a lot of the lease deals made back in 2013 are > coming due. Low mile 2012 iMiev's are listed anywhere from $7.5 to $10k. > If you want to go for a new one, some people have found some amazing deals > (one guy under $10k) after the federal and state tax credits - though > finding new might be a little harder as Mitsubishi hasn't shipped a lot of > 2014 or 2016 models. > > (Incidentally, I don't know of any "teething pains" on the iMiev; ther's > been only minor recall work since we had it, I'm not aware of any heat > related issues on the battery pack and I've heard of only a couple pack > failures in the US.) > > You can see several people on the www.myimiev.com/forum/ has a lot of > information including several threads on buying a used iMiev. > > Good luck! > > Dan > > > > - > Dan Gallagher > http://www.evalbum.com/3854 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Inexpensive-retiree-friendly-EV-tp4675387p4675448.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
Re: [EVDL] Inexpensive retiree-friendly EV?
Very interesting...there's a 2012 w/ 15k miles listed not far from here for just under $9k; Leafs look like they tend to be at least half again as much. Something like that belongs on a short list. Thanks! b& On May 10, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Danpatgal via EV wrote: > Our iMiev has served us really well, and is much easier to get in and out of > than a Leaf, which is probably a consideration for older people. Some > people can't get past the looks, but once you get in and drive it, you > appreciate the spartan (easy) interface, visibility (as compared to the > Leaf), space inside, ease of parking, and good capability. And, used prices > are now quite low because a lot of the lease deals made back in 2013 are > coming due. Low mile 2012 iMiev's are listed anywhere from $7.5 to $10k. > If you want to go for a new one, some people have found some amazing deals > (one guy under $10k) after the federal and state tax credits - though > finding new might be a little harder as Mitsubishi hasn't shipped a lot of > 2014 or 2016 models. > > (Incidentally, I don't know of any "teething pains" on the iMiev; ther's > been only minor recall work since we had it, I'm not aware of any heat > related issues on the battery pack and I've heard of only a couple pack > failures in the US.) > > You can see several people on the www.myimiev.com/forum/ has a lot of > information including several threads on buying a used iMiev. > > Good luck! > > Dan > > > > - > Dan Gallagher > http://www.evalbum.com/3854 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Inexpensive-retiree-friendly-EV-tp4675387p4675448.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150510/4e7a9f44/attachment.pgp> ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
