REVENGE of the Electric Car

January 27, 2012

For those of you who don’t know, REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR is now out on DVD. As soon as I found out, I ordered a copy, and just watched it now. For me, it did NOT have the same emotion to it that WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? had. WHO KILLED was such an […]

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THE ORGANIC VIEW talks about DIY Electric Cars.

January 25, 2012

(Pre-Show) Right now, I’m pretty excited to be a guest just a little later today on THE ORGANIC VIEW. I met the host a while back at the Mother Earth Fair, and we had a good long chat. If you are looking at this web page right now because of that program, thanks for stopping […]

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Welcome INSTRUCTABLES!

January 22, 2012

Hi Everyone, Instructables.com recently featured me as one of their FEATURED AUTHORS! If you are here from following a link from that article, THANK YOU for swinging on by! I am NOT a web designer, but with blogging sites and templates, even somebody like me can put some information out there. That’s really the main […]

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PWM Disco Ball – Lights, Music, and Electric Cars

December 28, 2011

At home, I have a small LED light that is designed for use under cabinets. I use it mostly to illuminate one side of my aquarium, and I occasionally pull it out to use it as a light for filming video. The problem is that it is quite a bit brighter than the other LED […]

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Electric Motorcycle at the CRAFTSMAN EXPERIENCE

November 23, 2011

This past Friday, I had the great privilege of joining other Instructables authors in Chicago at the CRAFTSMAN EXPERIENCE. The event was part social mixer, part television show, with Instructables authors being interviewed and talking about and showing off their innovative projects. I brought my electric motorcycle down to show off at the event. After […]

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A visit to the Open Source Ecology project

November 10, 2011

This past weekend, I had a chance to travel to Missouri, to the Factor-E Farm, home of the Open Source Ecology project. While you may already know about the project from the TED Talk presented by Marcin Jakubowski, some friends from the local ecology group and I wanted to go see the project in person. Not […]

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Wind Energy – Now happening in Milwaukee

November 3, 2011

Today, I attended a ground-breaking ceremony in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The ground-breaking was for a new 100KW (one hundred-thousand watts) wind turbine project to be located at the Port of Milwaukee. Creating renewable energy through wind turbines is a natural fit for the coastlines of this country, including the “Middle Coast” of the Great Lakes. As […]

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Electric Cycles at EV Club Meeting

October 11, 2011

On Sunday, we held a meeting of the Wisconsin Electric Vehicles Association. While we had a good crowd, and a number of electric cars there, my favorite part was the ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES! I had my KZ440 there and the local electric Harley “Sparkster” was there as well. The crowd favorite however was a pretty fancy […]

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EV Motorcycle acceleration test

October 8, 2011

Of the questions I get about my motorcycle, “What’s your 0-60?” is the one I just can’t answer. You see, I never even DESIGNED the cycle to go 60 miles an hour. I’m less then two miles outside the city, where it’s ALL 25 mph zones. Still, it seems like “performance” numbers are what people […]

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Earthineer Electric Car

October 4, 2011

Just over a week ago, I was at a ski resort in Pennsylvania at the Mother Earth News Fair, giving a presentation on how I built my own electric motorcycle. A while back, I wondered why they didn’t ask me to also give a presentation on my electric car. Did they have someone else giving […]

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