EVTV Friday Show - December 6, 2012

- Open Source Generalized Electric Vehicle Control Unit - GEVCU.
- Visitors from outer space, or at least the Marshall Space Flight Center.
- More DMOC 645




Flashback 3 years before: Jack takes us for a ride in his red Porsche Electric Speedster

For a moment, I thought I was watching the wrong video, until he appeared in double on the screen :-)

Jack explains his theory about the adoption curve and why EVs are selling so slowly right now 

It is because we are in the "adoption gap" phase: right after the early adopters got their EV, there is a little stagnation or very slow movement in sales 

And back in the shop with the Siemens and Azure Dynamics equipments: here a Siemens Generator that he will use as a "dyno"

Jack tells us again about his wish / will to develop an Generalized Electric Vehicle Control Unit (GEVCU); See more in the forums of the EVTV.me website he set up for people to exchange and do collaborative work on this device and the ...

... DMOC 645 from Azure Dynamics

He also had two guys from NASA come over, buy Siemens motor, DMOC 645, etc 

and spend some time in the shop lokking at this stuff Jack acquired from Azure Dynamics liquidation sale

Looking inside the DMOC 645 guts

EVTV Friday Show - November 30, 2012

- Azure Dynamics DMOC 645. What's inside. How do you flash it.
- Azure Dynamics eTransit Connect. Ours arrives. Nice vehicle.
- Speedster Nippon - getting closer. Lots of little stuff.

LA Auto Show:

BMWi Carbon Structure

Fiat 500e

Chevrolet Spark 

AutoBlog Green wrote an article about EVTV's raid to Azure Dynamics 

Now Jack wants to study in depth the inverter / controller used by Azure Dynamics in their eTransit Connect 

tells us about Siemens induction motors he got from them

He also wants to create VCU (Vehicle Control Unit) that would work for all EV drive conversions

Siemens induction motor torque / power graphs

Azure Dynamics eTransit Connect purchased by Jack for 6,000 USD only, because it had not gone through the final validation step 

It is brand new & works perfectly 

Speedster Nippon progress

Jack is studying a lighter way to cool the controlled using a computer series of fan system

The instrumentation is almost done

Upfront the SE Series CALB battery cells have been covered with a plexiglass sheet 

Jack shows us the "Speedster" & "Electric" signs he had specifically made for conversions; You can buy them on the online store and invert the two: "Electric Speedster" or 'Speedster Electric"