Jun 18
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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Jun 05
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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May 22
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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Apr 02
On display at Sydney’s Darling Harbor is the new all-electric MiEV ‘production’ display vehicle.
MiEV dashboard... mmm... round, we like round...
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Although I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, a colleague from the office did and here is what he had to say…
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car is on display today [...]
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Dec 09
Although mentioned previously, we’ve had to put it aside while working out where everything else is going to fit. As you know, the Curtis has a bunch of MOSFETS inside, ’sinked’ to the base of the housing. Although efficiency can be improved in a controller design, simple immediate solutions can involve better cooling. Some folks [...]
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Dec 05
That being the press this time, but you have to hand it to them for making the effort to grasp the latest technologies without adding pre-conceived cynicism in a minefield of broken promises and dead-end projects that seem to litter the EV horizon.
The better end of town, namely the professional technology arena as well as [...]
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Dec 02
After painting everything nicely, Nathan finalizes the positioning of the support posts and tightens all the nuts and supporting spacers on our retro-fitted belt-driven power steering/air con ‘module’, as we like to call it.
Nathan tightens last nut.
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Nov 26
With this engine bay, space has been an issue all the way. Having set a component to sit in one place only to move it later because it fits better elsewhere when in context with other components has been a head-scratcher a lot of the time. This was compounded by the fact we had to [...]
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Nov 11
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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Nov 05
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?
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