EVTV Friday Show - November 2, 2012

-Speedster Nippon: 1957 Electtric Porsche Speedster 356 - battery box completion and installation of CALB SE 180AHA cells. First charge

-Description of LiFePo4 battery cell operation and failure modes: an in depth LiFePO4 Battery Chemistry Lesson with Professor Rickard

Sandy & Fisker Karma flooded burned to the ground

EV West with an amazing All Road 

Matt Auber from EV West, the live cable cutter, ex intern at EVTV shop

Jack's VW Thing has been repainted and is ready for the EV drive conversion to come

And back to the shop with Jesse and the battery cells installation in the battery boxes

A very clean job, as ususal !

Guest main switch to cut off all power for maintenance or in case a problem, and a big ceramic fuse

Jack shows up the HPEVS AC-50 Motor & Curtis 1238R-7601 Controller interconnect diagram used in this build 

AutoBlockAMP from RechargeCar: A current sensor that can do many cool things ...

Jack plays Wetaher Man with the green background 

and now an in depth lesson on LiFePO4 battery chemistry 

EVTV Friday Show - October 19, 2012

This week:
- Kleenspeed announces a new EV
- Inventor of NiMH Battery & EV1
- SAE J1772 Combo Connector
- More than a regular black paint for the Battery Boxes of Speedster Nippon
- Bottom Balancing the Speedster Nippon cells




Kleenspeed announces a new EV called the KAR

The secret behind NiMH Batteries inventor and GM EV1

SAE J1772 Combo Connector

Fathers & Sons at EVCCON last september

Jack & Jesse are working on battery boxes for Speedster Nippon

Installing them in the car

Jesse came out with a nice plexiglass box to arrange the three cables of the AC50 motor nicely & securely

Upfront, looking at he braking transducer on the master cylinder, to activate regenerative braking 

Eric Kriss NEMA Marinco outlet to plug at Grandma's house (where there is no J1772 EVSE) with a regular plug

Bottom Balancing lesson again by Jack; It's always good to repeat these things :-)

EVTV Friday Show - October 12, 2012

Last week the video was so long that Youtube cut it in half and then removed it... but it is still available fro you to see on EVTV.me

Program:

- John Hardy battery testing in the UK

- Electric Cadillac Escalade EXT Warranty Work

- Speedster Nippon: Adaptor plate work in the shop

John Hardy's book: ICE Free & chat about a very promissing improvement in LiFePO4 battery chemistry: Silicon coted Carbon nano tubes (?) that would allow more density in Lithium ion intercalition, thus more Energy Density

John Hardy battery testing in the UK and the Problems when using Shunt Balancers

Jack is taking his Escalade to the Cadillac dealer for the a recall 

Where is the engine ?

Jack and Jesse go through the details of installing the adaptor plate, taper lock, spacer, flywheel, pressure plate & clutch  on the AC50 motor for Speedster Nippon