Electric Cars for Everyone

I know many of you liked the Nut Rider 80s retro electronic instrument cluster. All those LEDs looked cool and would have gone nicely with my retro 80s ham gear. But there was simply no decent geography to put in a decent visible-easy battery gauge. Having run out of money and deciding not to get [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Carmel Duryea Morris, Electric Starion EV, electric vehicle

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

This has been sitting around in the garage for some time now begging to be installed. When we rushed to prepare for the EV demo, the brakes weren’t finished – they were hard-pressed to slow down one could say. As most cars have vacuum pumps for power-assisted breaking, it’s a must-have for my car too, [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Carmel Duryea Morris, Electric Car, electric vehicle, ev, Starion

The show kind of crept up on us fast. Although not fully completed, we still managed to make my Starion EV drivable for Sydney’s annual electric car show, held by the Australian Electric Vehicle Association. The show turned out to be a great success in itself… [/caption] [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Carmel Duryea Morris, electric starion, Starion EV

It’s taken a bit of preparation time, which is essential rather than diving in to find something we’ve done is not quite right – both Nathan and I have been guilty in the past of making stuff only to discover a better way of doing it…. Continue reading »

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery management system, Carmel Duryea Morris, electric starion, ev, Thundersky

What I mean is I’m still waiting for the master controller unit! The waiting-for-parts thing has been a big thorn in our sides. I sometimes wonder if this may be because our interstate supplier might like to corner the local market and serve his customers there first with their EV conversions. Ah, but perhaps I’m [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: battery management system, Carmel Duryea Morris, electric starion, electric vehicle, ev, Starion

Thundersky Lithium Phosphate 160Ah Batteries are Here! A crate load of batteries (a few crates actually) has finally arrived. But… Continue reading »

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, Carmel Duryea Morris, electric car conversion, electric vehicle, ev, Starion, Thundersky

Fiberglassing the Battery Tank As you can see from the following images, the inner fiberglass shell has been made. [/caption] Continue reading »

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Carmel Duryea Morris, electric starion, electric vehicle, electric vehicle batteries, ev

They Charged Me for Batteries, So Where Are They? The shipping container has arrived in the country, but apparently (and not surprisingly) other people have similar orders, so distribution across this large ‘continent’ will take a bit of time (the Olympics had already added some delays). When they arrive I’ll add to the next video which I [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Battery Compartment, battery, Carmel Duryea Morris, Electric Car, electric starion, ev