EVTV Friday Show - April 12, 2013

The Thing about THINGS

News with a new Sunny Spring background !

New Nordlock washer



Tesla




Michael Bream from EV West and their VW Beetle conversion Kit !
=> 2 weeks of work and your old bug will never spill oil again




Brandon Hollinger and his Austin FX - London Taxi - EV conversion










And back to Jack's VW Thing for a good Bottom Balancing of the CALB CA100FI cells





Tyco Kilovac EV200AAANA, DC manual Switch, and Shock sensor cut off switch

Peltier effect cells experiments for air conditioning / heating system ...

EVTV Friday Show - January 4, 2013 - Preview

- Electric Austin FX-1 London Taxi
- CALB CA180FI LiPo4 cell test to 2200 amps into a bucket of water
- New 530 BMW E39 Conversion project




Brandon Hollinger is taking his Austin FX London Taxi to have the motor installed at a specialiazed shop

More on his website: ampREVOLT.com

Time for some news

RechargeCar Macchina : An Arduino based EV control board

Irish kamikaze Damien Maguire tests once again a CALB CA180FI cell to its limits by short circuiting it, this time in water, to make tea probably ...

He will get more than 2000 Amps from it, this is crazy ! Don't try this at home

Here it shows 1529 x 2.68 = more than 4 kW of power form a single cell !!

Amazingly, after all this crazy work, the cell is back to 3.2V ....

His next project: Convert an early 2000 Series 5 BMW to Electric Drive and starts analyzing the information on the CANbus ... 

to be continued ...

EVTV Friday Show - September 14, 2012

A lot this week @ EVTV:

- Electric Ford Edge
- Electric John Deere Lawn Mower
- More on electric Aristocraft boat plans
- Brandon Hollinger Electric Austin FX
- Jeff Southern's Electric Thing
- Mark Busch with Electric Bradley GT
- Anne Kloppenberg with Electric Ray Wright Delta Boat

Electric Ford Edge motor and transmission out of the car

and back inside, this time there will not be a battery box on top of it (like it used to be, blocking visibility and access to motor, transmission, etc)

Electric John Deere Lawn Mower project is complete

with the addition of an Vicor DC-DC converter (36V to 12V) used to charge the lead-acid original battery,
used to operates the contactor, the voltmeter and the clutch

Jeff Southern got some CALB CA180FI for his Electric Thing project and is showing us where he wil put them: upfront at a low level...

Here, under the back seats and in the engine bay in the back on both side of the motor and transmission 

Anne Kloppenberg from Amsterdam found a new toy to convert to Electric Drive: a Ray Wright Delta Boat

Brandon Hollinger's 1971 Electric Austin FX (London taxi)

He finally got the specified adpator parts after 5 months the californian machinenist

Transmission rotation test

Adaptor plate mounted onto the motor

Motor and transmission are going back into the London taxi

Mark Busch is switching to Lithium-ion batteries for his Electric Bradley GT