I have driven a few EVs over the years. Homebuilts, conversions,
C-Cars, EVA Metro, Leaf, etc.
But my favourite location for the charging port is still beside the
driver's door. Like my son's Ford Focus EV.
Yes, most modern EVs won't let you drive away with the vehicle plugged
in. However
If you are looking for an EV project and have a solid sense of
curiosity, this might be of interest. It's not for everyone, I have
worked on a couple C-Cars over the years.
I am posting this on behalf of an acquaintance of mine, who was one
owner of it years ago, and had it in working conditi
The paper refers to a 10^3 (1000) times improvement in efficiency of a
very specific process in the photovoltaic effect. IMO, that won't
translate into 1000 times improvement at the cell or panel level as
there's a lot more going on to turn received photons into usable
electricity.
Darryl
O
Hi Nathan,
emerging briefly from Digest / lurk mode.
Nobody ever owned an EV1. GM only leased them, which is why they could
legally scoop them up and destroy them.
That said, there might be a few people still who leased one. It's
something like 25 years ago now. I know a few a few EVDL me
I have been moving a lot of stuff around the past few months - mostly
for other people - but I have unearthed a control column cover and power
switching tower for an Elcar. I think I also still have a set of 'pink
prints' of the vehicle electric schematics around here somewhere -
notations in
To echo Lee's experience. Back in the olden days (early 1980s), I put
1" and 1.5" slabs of extruded polystyrene board around the lead-acid
battery packs and on top. 60-watt battery warmers underneath. Remote
sensing thermometers in the packs with read-outs on the dash. The foam
board also r
We had good results with the Bridgestone Ecopia tires on our 2012 Leaf
to replace the original all-seasons (we have a set of winter tires as
well which each do about half the year). Kilometres per kWh increased
from 6.6 to 7.2 after the installation.
Regarding going to narrower tires, with th
Back in the late 90s when the Canadian government had a nascent strategy
around EVs as a way to bring economic growth and address pollution
issues and reduce GHG emissions, I had the opportunity to test drive the
Nissan Altra and the Hypermini.
The referenced article takes too much of the prog
Disclosure: I know little about horses. When I was quite young, one
chore I had on occasion was grooming my grandfather's cranky Percheron
stallion. I'm pretty sure he tried to kill me a couple of times. That
likely colours my perceptions.
In my readings of early car-horse interactions, ho
Pardon my cynicism, but what if the oil industry's interest in EV
charging stations is not simply a relatively benign profit motive?
If an industry which sees its primary source of profits being threatened
by EVs takes control of a significant part of the charging
infrastructure, what is to st
As a long-time member of this list, I want to express my thanks to Bruce
for all the effort he puts into gleaning information from multiple
sources and providing it here in concentrated form.
Having driven EVs since 1978, there is an expectation that I can somehow
be on top of all the world's
Hello Mark and all,
as expected, I'm tardy with a response, and I see the discussion has
moved on, and as already noted, shows why hydrogen is typically OT for
this list.
I'm not prepared to debate the merits of hydrogen as a fuel or energy
store here. I had those debates from the late 1990
We don't have to guess at the California electricity mix.
https://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_system_power.html
(rounding to nearest percent for simplicity)
29% from renewables other than large hydro
15% from large hydro
9% from nuclear (not renewable, but reasonably low
https://lbpost.com/life/autoette-electric-cart-long-beach-history/
As we discuss the relative merits of Tesla Model 3s vs. Kias with 64 kWh
packs, it's nice to see some reference to the EVs which never actually
died out, with a welcome dash of humour.
Photo and video in the online article.
I
https://qctimes.com/news/local/ut-students-seek-parts-for--year-old-car/article_6d2b0aca-52e9-5df3-8b86-8d19f42efd1a.html
[As something of an EV historian, having worked on a couple of CitiCars
and once upon a time having spoken and corresponded with Bob Beaumont,
it came as a surprise to me to
The Elcar 1000 was a hoot to drive. We definitely managed 40 mph.
Cornered like a bottom-weighted kid's inflatable punching clown. I
think the center of gravity on the Elcar was about 9 inches off the
ground. Barely wider than the big motorcycles of the time with the high
handlebars. My 201
Hi Dan,
I'm 'down the road' in Ontario, but with NS roots (Annapolis Valley and
Pictou County). I've met David Swan a couple of times, and corresponded
with Jeff Dahn. I enjoyed your SnowPig video (and I hope to pick up
more front lift motors on Friday to put my Elec-Trak snow team back into
Pity it's in CA, the shipping to the Great White North(east) would be a
killer.
My lovely retro-orange and white Auranthetic was stolen out of my
driveway a few years ago. While I did not get to use it often, I
thought it was blast to ride. (Not daily driver material where we can
have snow
Announced today: Over the coming year, about 200 Level 3 and 300 Level
2 charging stations will be installed across Ontario at over 250 locations.
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/electric/electric-vehicle-chargers-ontario.shtml
Through the $20 million Electric Vehicle Chargers Ontar
ng to
speak for EVs under the previous regime.
--
Darryl McMahon
Freelance Project Manager
On 3/3/2016 9:46 AM, Paul Wujek wrote:
On 2016-03-03 08:16 AM, Darryl McMahon via EV wrote:
Now, if Ontario can find an automaker to start building EVs in Ontario
using all the plant capacity idled by th
There are a few factors which contribute to the enhanced incentive
making sense in Ontario. (Unlike the U.S., there is no federal
incentive for EV purchase in Canada.)
Ontario (and more recently the new Canadian federal government) have
embraced climate change mitigation - notably signalling
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On 4 Oct 2015 at 21:40, Darryl McMahon via EV wrote:
>In the past, I have rescued some EV-related website material which was
>
I hesitate to raise my hand here as I am currently crazy busy on too
many fronts.
In the past, I have rescued some EV-related website material which was
in danger of being lost, and have gathered it into my EV History pages
on the econogics.com website. E.g.,
http://www.econogics.com/ev/Dale
Just home from this EVent with our 2012 Leaf. I was at the far end of
the static display area, pretty much as last year.
I continue to be astonished by the number of walk-by traffic who are not
aware that pure electric vehicles exist, or are available for purchase
at dealers. My most frequen
George, you might also be interested in the Electric Boat discussion group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electricboats/
(Yahoo! ID required)
Darryl McMahon
(owner of small solar electric boat)
On 27/04/2015 5:20 AM, via EV wrote:
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:06:04 -0400
From: Geor
No need to get too excited by EV uptake in Canada just yet.
There is no federal incentive. Period.
The British Columbia provincial incentive as allowed to expire in
February of this year. I think that leaves only 2 provinces (Ontario
and Quebec) with incentive programs. These programs are a
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