Electric Cars for Everyone

Like last year, a good turn up and assortment of EV eye-candy was to be had for one and all and the Thunderskys are holding out well as expected with few reports of any issues with them in performance, range or charging. Some guys from my R&D group turned up, some friends from the ham [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: aeva, Better Place, ev, sydney

News in from Otmar – the high-powered motor-controller maker has found new manufacturing feet for his famed Zilla controller. Double the top current-handling of my Curtis, the Zilla fills a much-needed hole in the EV market in the high-performance end. With water cooling built into some models, these things when fitted into a sports EV [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Better Place, Electric Car, ev, Li-Po, Logisystems, MiEV, STAIR, STAIR Air Battery, St Andrews Air, Synkro, Thundersky, University of St Andrews, Zilla

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

The Nissan Nuvu (aka ‘new view’) announced some time ago may finally be arriving in Australia next year to compete against the Mitsubishi MiEV (and possibly Toyota iQ if they sort their red tape with the government) in what is gearing up to be a new spark of electric auto competition. An alternative to the [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Better Place, battery pack, Electric Car, electric auto, ev, ICE, lithium, MiEV, Mitsubishi, nissan cube, solar array, solar cells, solar collectors, Thundersky

Now that heading is such a bad joke! I’ll just have to elaborate, sorry, but Better Place have had a few more musings lately, one being that the idea of fast charging stations will be to cater for cars that are leased only (a ‘Who Killed…‘ deja vu again?). The idea is to lease the [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Better Place, Commodore, Electric Satrion EV