Electric Cars for Everyone

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

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

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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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Curtis, cooling, Electric Car, Electric Starion EV, ev, motor, Starion

After successfully testing the drivability, it’s back to the workshop to get stuff removed to paint the battery racks and sort the best place for the charger. I did a mock-up Zivan so I could squeeze it into a place in the pillar where Nathan cut a piece out for access. The test proved that there [...]

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

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

Now Drivable – but early days yet… The Electric Starion is now at a drivable state and we take her for a spin at the annual electric car show in Sydney. Continue reading »

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Curtis, Electric Car, electric starion, ev, Kostov, Starion, Starion EV, video

Naturally I’m not going to have just a basic EV, the complete picture just like any other car is required and this includes air conditioning and power steering. From Video#3 you will have seen the AC driver motor for the power steer and air-con. The following images show the metal-cutouts and fit tests where it [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: air conditioning, electric starion, ev, power steering, Starion

A few people are asking me why I have chosen Thundersky Lithiums over conventional lead-acid deep cycle batteries. Firstly, lithium phosphates are lighter than deep-cycles, and Lithium polymers are even lighter again, approximately half the weight of the phosphates, making them useful for a variety of applications other than just electric vehicles, such as electric [...]

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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, battery, electric vehicle, ev, lithium, Starion, Thundersky