From the monthly archives:

December 2008

The Newspaper Article

December 31, 2008

The newspaper article just came out. Actually, the paper came out a day early this week, because of the New Year’s Holiday. I got a call this afternoon from my wife. She works for a large furniture retailer. One of the owners of the company called the woman she carpools with to ask if the […]

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Electric Car Speeding Ticket

December 30, 2008

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It Started as a Joke….

December 29, 2008

I can not believe how many people think my story of the speeding ticket court date is the funniest tale ever. I was seriously embarrassed by the whole situation, yet, to a T, every person commenting about it so far describes it as nothing less than hilarious… On Ecomodder.com, one of my favorite Eco-Transportation forums, […]

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Electric Car Speeding Ticket and Public Shame..

December 26, 2008

A couple of days ago, I was trying to find my speeding ticket. I couldn’t find it anywhere, but did remember the court date was the day after Christmas. I talked to a clerk at the police station about when court was held, exactly. I knew the date but not the time! She wasn’t able […]

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Electro-Metro Pot Box Installation

December 21, 2008

I headed over to Tom’s today to work on our cars. Rich was already over there, and Swee and Lloyd both stopped in for a bit. Right after lunch, Mike showed up and helped out for a while. Mostly, we worked on our electric throttle controls. On Tom’s Neon, the original car throttle body already […]

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Electro-Metro visits the Milwaukee Hybrid Group

December 20, 2008

MILWAUKEE HYBRID GROUP MEETING:This morning was a Hybrid Group Meeting. I hitched up the Metro to the S10 and drove to the Oak Creek Public Library. Can you find the NON-Hybrid Car in this photo? Here’s a hint: it’s the black one. And it’s not a gasoline car, it’s pure electric. When I first got […]

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Electro-Metro Update Dec 14 2008

December 19, 2008

Since I was snowed-in today, it gave me a chance to edit together the footage of work done this past Sunday on the Electro-Metro. This was a big deal, because we were installing the new solid coupler between the motor and transmission, then we put it in the car. Not easy to do without a […]

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Electro-Metro Motor back in!

December 14, 2008

More work on the car! Rich and Brian came out to help. The first thing to do was just to put the Motor, Coupler, and Transmission together to see how things line up. A big part of why the access hole was cut in the side of the transmission was for exactly this sort of […]

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Electro-Metro Update 12/07/2008

December 11, 2008

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The XP-Humm-E!

December 10, 2008

Recently, I had a private message on a web forum, mentioning a particular green vehicle project which used cedar-strip canoe-building techniques for the vehicle body. This got me excited. My father has built several wood canoes, and they are all beautiful! Automobiles and canoes actually have a longer history than you might think. One of […]

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