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“300MPG.org’s Electric Vectrix Wins Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Competition!”

July 13, 2015

“300MPG.org’s Electric Vectrix Wins Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Competition!” is the headline I would love to be able to tell you. Unfortunately, it only exists in my imagination. Nope. Truth be told, I was a complete amateur who simply showed up, NEVER having been at this type of event before on a vehicle unmodified other […]

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1st Mini-Road Trip on the Vectrix

May 29, 2015

Yesterday, I clocked 72.3 miles on the Vectrix. One of the two people that I sold the rest of the Nissan LEAF cell modules to is Nick. He lives in the greater Milwaukee, WI area, and has the same Vectrix as I do. I mean the SAME! It is also a 2007 VX-1 and it’s […]

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Vectrix: Cycle Analyst now Working

May 27, 2015

I got the Cycle Analyst working! It seems that the problem is that I never bothered to program in the sensitivity of the shunt resistor. All of the ammeters that I have worked with in the past were simple analog ones. I would have a meter and a matching shunt. It just worked – nothing […]

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Custom Lettering on the Vectrix

May 18, 2015

Yesterday, I was busy running errands, but had the chance to swing by the Milwaukee Makerspace. That’s a hackerspace in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Bayview neighborhood. I wanted to stop in to see if I had left my Solar Death Ray there. I had promised a friend that we would use solar power to burn his shirt […]

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Vectrix Range Testing

May 10, 2015

The minute that I posted that I had the LEAF cell modules in the Vectrix electric motorcycle, people started asking me “But what’s the new RANGE!?!?!” The answer is that I simply did not know. The only way was to ride the cycle until the voltage got down to the lower cut-off point. However, with […]

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LEAF Batteries are in the Vectrix!

April 20, 2015

Well, this past Saturday was a big day for the Vectrix upgrade project! I got the battery in and the Vectrix IS NOW RUNNING ON NISSAN LEAF CELLS! In my last video, I showed you how I got the battery together – 18 LEAF cell modules sandwiched together with spacers and threaded rod. This time, […]

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Tap, Stack, and Rack: LEAF Vectrix Batteries

April 17, 2015

The next step in the Vectrix battery upgrade with the Nissan LEAF cell modules is to figure out how to hold them together in the motorcycle. Since I started off with an entire Nissan LEAF battery pack, I had a few of the components that originally held the modules together inside the pack. That included […]

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Riding the Vectrix Home – Almost

March 8, 2015

Since I’ve been working on the Vectrix over at my Dad’s shop, at some point I actually need to transport it home. While I COULD do that with the back of a pickup truck, where’s the fun in that!? I’d much rather just ride the cycle home. It’s only an 8 or 9 mile trip, […]

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Vectrix: Maiden Voyage

March 2, 2015

Today was the maiden voyage on the Vectrix electric motorcycle. (Click the video above to see!) I put on my long underwear, grabbed my best thick gloves, and headed over to where I’ve been working on the cycle. I powered it up and took it down to the road to get ready for the first […]

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Vectrix FINALLY Works!

March 2, 2015

Yesterday, after filming the TRANSPORT EVOLVED episode, I headed back over to my Dad’s garage to work on the Vectrix. Unlike the day before, I had my CANBUS adapter with, so I could connect the cycle to the computer. One nice thing was that I let the cycle charge overnight, so I FINALLY had MORE […]

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