Carmel Duryea Morris

Soliton Water Cooling Update – and the MKARS80

January 2, 2012

HNY to all and sundried, I hope this year is better than last, not that I really celebrate the passing of a construct let alone an integer (but any lame excuse will do for a party). For my electric vehicle (leaving MKARS80 aside for the moment), all is going well, very little maintenance, until my [...]

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Let’s Hope The Nissan Leaf Never Falls

November 24, 2011

My boss decided to send me up to our San Francisco head office to work for a while and I am glad of the opportunity, since a few of the other engineers working here own Nissan Leafs. Having heard about my own electric car conversion, they were eager to show me their Leafs, three of [...]

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Revenge of the Electric Car

October 31, 2011

In 2009 I created a PowerPoint presentation titled, “Revenge of the Electric Car,” where I discussed the technology involved, the politics, the cowboys, promising enterprises that merely leech the money from the fatter end of town to no end, and a bit of history; but mostly it was tech stuff to prove how easily and [...]

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Will Social Energy Drive Change?

October 6, 2011

<tech digression to rant> Having experienced first-hand working with scumbag bosses, I can understand some of the objections people have to the excessive accumulation of wealth by a small handful of self-serving power-players with big egos and big lies to get them to where they are now; and that includes some of the mongrel electric [...]

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Movin’ On

September 19, 2011

Been off the air for a while, not only with other work but dealing with the death of another loved one. Blech, life, well it leads to death, at least I’ve got an electric car to boast about even if in these rapidly-changing times my car is rapidly becoming somewhat of a Model-T, but heck, [...]

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Carbon Nanotube No-Loss Energy Storage?

July 14, 2011

That’s what the guys at MIT claim, a blend of carbon nanotubes, latticed with something better than ruthenium (an expensive component with similar results), that being azobenzene – it’s all about storing energy in a chemical bond for later heat applications, rather than converting the energy to heat and insulating it to retain for later. [...]

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Yet Another Flow Battery, Flo

June 7, 2011

An easy flow battery for the energy dense Yes the game of thrones in the battery kingdom continues with a new beast, this time a kind of flow battery that has a much greater energy density. With all the new batteries looming on the never-ending horizon, will this be yet another glimpse of high-energy hope [...]

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Battery Management Tripped? Check Your Connections!

May 31, 2011

For my electric vehicle I currently use a battery management system where each module uses an Atmel Tiny13 chip to manage the charge and shunt (the chip looks like a triple5 and has a simple C program for managing the voltages). If you have a similar system, you may experience charging issues, i.e., plugging your [...]

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Driving around Deutschland in an Electric Vehicle

May 19, 2011

This electric vehicle uses lithium polymer batteries; don’t forget that these have a shorter life cycle than lithium ion phosphates (unless the technology has improved). Mind you lighter polymers and more compact cell footprint means more batteries and volts packed under the hood with greater C delivery. Some local electric vehicle builders have been using [...]

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Would You Prefer An Uncleaner Beamer?

April 28, 2011

BMW have been quoted as saying they don’t think electric vehicles are right for most people. Despite developing the ActiveE coupe and i3 electric vehicles for production later this year, they still believe battery technology and resistance from drivers of large vehicles will keep most people away from owning a fully-electric vehicle. Clean diesel and [...]

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Electric Limo Superbus Arrives in Dubai

April 14, 2011

Great for social occasions. Imagine being picked up in one of these to be taken to the latest ‘we made a lot of money in oil this month’ party. Of course the best way to experience the performance of this vehicle would be on a trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi in under 30 minutes, [...]

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Electric Vehicle Conversion Update – Just Some Photos

April 3, 2011

I’ve been a bit slack in adding new photos of my electric vehicle. I know I’ve meant to do a gallery of stuff from start of conversion to finish but there’s always been something else to take priority, including tending to my poor sick kitty, so sorry about this, and after all, I’ve been driving [...]

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