Charging the eLIMO

May 8, 2013

I recently got to have a bit of fun charging somebody else’s EV. Nope, not a Leaf or a Volt…. A Ford E350! It’s not very often I have a 13-passenger van roll into my driveway WITHOUT any internal combustion engine noise! A little while back, Dr. George Corliss of Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) called […]

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I-MIEV Battery Pack Air Cooling

May 5, 2013

Since I’ve been shooting a number of YouTube videos about the flood-damaged Mitsubishi i-MIEV, I’ve starting getting REQUESTS from viewers. Things like “Hey, can you show us how the Fast Charge port works?” A commenter yesterday was asking about the location of the cooling fan for the battery pack. I could have just written a […]

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How to build an electric car, REALLY

May 3, 2013

One of the most questions I get is “How do I build an electric car?” Um, could you be a little more specific? That’s a bit like asking “How do I build a house” or “How do we put a man on the moon?” Well, it’s a lot of small steps… So, why don’t you […]

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i-MIEV: Charging Lithium

April 30, 2013

Since I got the rest of the lithium cells out of the Mitsubishi battery pack, it gives me a chance to start charging and testing them. Of course, I have to pound some juice in there first! The main problem I’m running into so far is that the cells are at ZERO volts! They are […]

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i-MIEV: Stripping Lithium Cells & Gettin’ Soapy

April 29, 2013

This weekend was finally the first nice weekend of spring. Sure, last week it was snowing, this weekend was 65 degrees and sunny, and now we’ll have rain for the next ten days. Well, that’s spring in Wisconsin for you… So, it was time for a little spring cleaning, mostly to make some room so […]

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Earth Day Eco-Cycles

April 25, 2013

Earth Week is always a busy time for me, but in the best possible way! Yesterday, I attended the Milwaukee Area Technical College Green Vehicles Workshop. In the morning was a number of presentations on alternate fuels, emerging technologies, and what’s going on locally in clean transportation. The afternoon featured a display of alternate fuel […]

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The ENERGIZER – DIY Exercise Bike Generator

April 14, 2013

I’ve always been impressed with exercise bike generator displays at renewable energy exhibits. So, a while back, when I saw a classic Schwinn exercise bike at the thrift store, I nabbed it with the plan to make it into an EXERCISE BIKE GENERATOR! Earth Week is only a week away, and since our local eco-group […]

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DIY Electric Porsche

April 9, 2013

A friend of a friend has his Electric Porsche for sale. I met Bob a while back at the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair (MREA) and was impressed at not just what a great engineer he is, but also how he’s a “big-picture” thinker when it comes to ecology and everything else in life. Browsing over […]

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Starting an Electric Car Course, Curriculum, and Workbook

March 11, 2013

For some time, I’ve been producing training instructional DVDs to show how ANYONE can build their own electric car or motorcycle. I love getting e-mails from people with a note and a photo saying “Thanks for your videos, look what I built using that info!” But frankly, it’s not enough. We need to get entire […]

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DIY Tonneau Cover works great, still ugly

March 8, 2013

Sometimes the lessons you learn are what NOT to do. In working on my DIY Fiberglass Over F0am pickup truck tonneau cover, I learned that I’m not particularly good at fiberglass, nor do I like working with it. This winter, I was doing some work recycling some existing white polystyrene foam into a flat cover […]

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