Nov 02
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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\\ tags: aeva, Better Place, ev, sydney
Jul 23
When it comes to EVs, some back-yarders may well be up there with the Harold Lloyd types, dangling on a high voltage precipice. What am I on about? You’ll recall my expensive BMS master controller I griped on about some time ago – it handles the high current charging brought into the car via a [...]
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written by Carmel Duryea Morris
\\ tags: battery, Curtis, charger, controller, DC-DC converter, ev, Fuel, ICE, Thundersky, Zilla
Jun 18
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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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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written by Carmel Duryea Morris
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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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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
Jun 02
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
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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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
Apr 11
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
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Feb 05
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
Jan 14
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.
Mercedes BlueZERO concept car
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Blue is not so Green?
While the BlueZero has a concept proposal for a 100% electric [...]
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\\ 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
