From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Towing the Electro Metro and Neon EV bench testing

November 16, 2008

My car moved farther today than it has the entire time I have owned it. How? By towing it to South Milwaukee and back for for the EV Build Day. Yesterday, I finished off the towing setup. I cut (mangled) the guppy mouth to fit the tow bar through. Then I did a test-tow around […]

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Forkenswift Canadian Television

November 14, 2008

A while back, our friends over at Ecomodder, told us the Forkenswift was going to be on national TV. Of course, the first thing I had to do was get my hands on a copy, and post it to the web. If you aren’t familiar with the Forkenswift project, it’s a beer-budget, do it ALL […]

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Jay Leno and the Tesla Roadster

November 12, 2008

The last couple of nights, I’ve been staying up to watch the monologue on the TONIGHT SHOW. Before going to one of the commercials, Jay says to check out his garage online. So, I did. I already knew that Jay Leno is a huge car fan and owns an old-school Baker Electric car. What I […]

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EV Dodge Neon Video #5

November 12, 2008

Here’s video number five of the Dodge Neon EV conversion series. Enjoy. ` Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

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Electro-Metro Instructable

November 12, 2008

Well, I finally got around to making an Instructable about the Geo Metro project. Last night, I finished insulating the front battery box, and put the bumper back on at least well enough that it shouldn’t fall off in casual driving. It feels like I am at a point that the car is “done”. I […]

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Electric motorcycles still in the news

November 12, 2008

I was suprised to see that, just the other day, Treehugger had an article on electric motorcycles, which included mine! A while back, they did a little story on mine, which was pretty much just picked up from the blog article from Benjamin Jones on Ecomodder. What is interesting about the current article is that […]

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EV Construction Time Lapse

November 11, 2008

I put a video camera in the corner of the garage on time-lapse mode while we worked on the front battery tray and tow bar for the Electro-Metro. This way, you can see what we did in 5 hours, in just over a minute. -Ben ` Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook […]

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Electro-Metro Work Day

November 9, 2008

Sunday, Nov. 9 2008. Today, Tom, Mark, and Rich came over to help with the Electro-Metro conversion. I have plates on the car, but it’s time to renew them, which requires going in to emissions for testing, or in this case, proving that it has no engine, gasoline, or exhaust. To do that, I need […]

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NEON EV Conversion video 004

November 7, 2008

Here’s video four on Tom’s Dodge Neon EV conversion. Electric Car Conversion 101 Part 4 – Funny videos are here Hope you enjoy this series of videos. We really are just trying to get some good information out there on the actual “How-To” part of making an electric car conversion. Expect more videos on this […]

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Plug-Ins are the Future!

November 7, 2008

This summer, I saw that Google and YouTube were teaming up, looking for video submissions about plug-in electric vehicles to be shown at a conference in Washington DC, sponsored by Google.org and the Brookings Instutution. My electric motorcycle may not be fancy, but it is a plug-in vehicle, and I didn’t have to wait for […]

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