Bjørn's Tesla Model S #1: Oslo - Trondheim Norwegian winter driving

A great video from Bjørn, a new Norvegian Tesla Model S driver, in the very cold winter weather of his country ...

"My very first road trip with my brand new Tesla Model S P85 Multicoat Red. The trip from Oslo to Trondheim is 535 km and has a max elevation of 1026 m. This puts the Model S on a real winter test."

DIY ESS - Powering the Electric Train !

Winter is here and it is the perfect time to take the Electric Train out of the closet and play with the kids in a warm home



My daughter is actually discovering since I did not use it for years, since she was to young; She seems to like it :-)



Helped by a little bit of solar, our home DIY ESS is providing power to the whole home, for heating, cooking, lighting, ... and even for the Electric Train !



Just starting with a small circuit


Yes, I put a solar panel on the train station roof, back 7 years ago - used for lighting -

A bit dusty, but still fine

Many rails in there, we did some big circuits years ago with up to 4 trains, including a TGV Est, the very first version of the famous French high speed train of the 80s 

Stay tuned ...

Heat pumps on walls, balconies, roofs, and chimney stacks in Marseille

I have a Daikin Heat Pump installed on one unused chimney stack on our building and it has been working well since 2008

I thought it was a rare installation, but not at all, as I discovered many like these in Marseille, during my last week of vacation there; It is in the south of France where the climate is warmer, so I guess most of them are actually air conditoning units 

Today, I am working from home

See ? in Wattson Silver's reflection  

Also notice that the heat pump is on, it is still quite cold here, close to 0°C

Twizy in the Snow

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow !

Quite a bit of snow here and some on & inside our neighborhood Twizy ... The owner had installed the plastic windows - good idea - but my son told me there was some snow inside still :-(  

No heater in the Twizy by the way, you have to be motivated to take it in this kind of weather, but it might be very fun to see how it drives and slides on these snowy streets !

New Electric Glastron V174 Bayflite cold weather acceleration and speed run !

Anne Kloppenborg from New Electric in Amsterdam his testing its 74' Electric Bayflite Speedboat in the cold : Cold & Wet but no Torque problem for this amazing conversion !


"It's end of season here in Amsterdam and soon will be time to bring the boat back into the shop.
We wanted to get some extra footage and see what our cold weather performance is like. It was about 2C outside air temp, nevermind the windchill when going at 50kmh..brr!
Pack had been charged previous evening and went into the night at 25C. After sitting outside in a -2C night, the pack was at 10C when we starrted shooting around midday."

info@newelectric.nl

EVTV Friday Show - November 9, 2012

This week:
- HPEVS (Hi Performance Electric Vehicle Systems) New AC-50 Motor

- More battery theory: cold weather charging & anode advancements

- Azure Dynamics liquidation fire sale



New Tesla Roadster ...

The return of the copper foil helmet ...

And back to school, with Professor Rickard ... (battery school that is)

2 things:
- Do not charge LiFePO4 cells below 0°C
- Adavancements in Anode announced by Rice University are very promising :-)

New HPEVS AC-50 Motor: bigger, harder & stronger

The one Jack is using at the moment (in the Speedster Nippon build for example)

Azure Dynamics liquidation fire sale: Jack acquired a lot of quality EV parts that will be available on the EVTV Online Store for bargain prices ! "Stay with us..." :-) 

More info on Jack's blog