Electric Cars for Everyone

Mitsubishi knows full-well that it may be a possibility, as they themselves have stated recently that lithium demand will outstrip supply as early as 2015. While we all expect and hope that prices will fall as production and popularity of EVs increase, prices could possibly rise instead, forcing us to other automobile alternatives (air-compression technology [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, battery pack, ev, Mitsubishi

The guard on my car needs a fix after a bump – oops – a simple job one would expect, but shopping around for a good panel beater is difficult as most don’t want to guarantee their workmanship on anything that could bring on the slightest hint of rust. I have a spare guard but [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, battery pack, charger, Electric Car, ev, Ford, Fuel, motor, Starion, Thundersky, Zivan

Reports have been coming in of a new type of air-charged battery which could provide up to ten times the energy storage of a conventional lithium cobalt battery. Called the STAIR (‘St Andrews Air,’ where it was developed at Scotland’s University of St Andrews), it provides improved capacity via a porous carbon exchange cell lattice [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, Better Place, Carmel Duryea Morris, electric vehicle, ev, STAIR, STAIR Air Battery, St Andrews Air, Thundersky, University of St Andrews

My Airpax breaker, the main breaker switch, now has a busted switch-arm (I’ll save you the painful images). Just a few test throws under tension, the supposedly strong Bakelite switch arm shattered. The Airpax breaker is expensive, and we’ll have to see if it’s still under warranty as I paid for this some time ago. [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, Carmel Duryea Morris, charger, Echo, ev, ICE, lithium, MiEV, Mitsubishi, Starion, video, Zilla

While my car waits for some final parts, the Echo conversion is progressing well and we hope to have it drivable very soon. There’s an EV show coming up and the Echo will be perfect for it, taking pride of place amongst the smaller vehicles and some funny guys riding funny go-carts etc – yet [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, charger, conversion, Echo, electric starion, ev, Getz, hybrid, ICE, lithium, motor, Starion, Yaris

While Ford are thinking of releasing a fully-electric work van in 2010, Mercedes has got in on the EV action with a proposal for a new EV in a B-class range, namely the BlueZERO. [/caption] Blue is not so Green? While the BlueZero has a concept proposal for a 100% electric [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: A-Class, Batteries, BlueZERO, E-cell, Electric Starion EV, electric vehicle, ev, Ford, fully-electric, hybrid, Mazda, Mercedes, NaNiCl, Starion, Thundersky, work van, Zebra

Funny how some humans have such short term cerebral attributes. Maybe it’s because we’re all so busy worrying about today (nothing new there). Yes the price of gas has gone down and yes the global economic downturn is responsible. Hmmm…, conundrum, which came first; the oily chicken or the oily egg? Continue reading »

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, charger, Electric Car, ev, gas giants, gas guzzler, gas prices, lithium, oil, oil giants

For accessories, a DC to DC converter (such as the Curtis 1410) is used to buck down the 144v (actually higher on peak charge) from the Thunderskys to an isolated 12-14 volt source for accessories such as lights, radios, airhoon, ahem I mean horn etc (which an alternator would otherwise handle in a gas car). DC-DC [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: accessories, Batteries, Curtis, DC-DC converter, Electric Car, electric vehicle, Starion EV

Just when we thought there was no hope for local innovation, spin-off otherwise, there was an announcement in Physorg (link below) on Thursday (and other media) about a bold plan to roll out electric vehicles and charging stations in Australia’s major cities by 2012. The initiative by Shai Agassi’s Better Place organization of California will [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, electric vehicle batteries, lithium, Thundersky

Most of the hard part of cabling through the sub-frame has now been done. The car’s been pretty well stripped to the bone but all this work should be worth it. Where to Run The Cable While a lot of EV builders get their cabling to run under the car, protecting it in the sub-frame is my [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery balancing, power cabling, Thundersky