EVTV Friday Show - April 24, 2015

Repairs on the Azure Dynamics Ford eTransit Connect. Illustrates why Right to Repair is important.

Also read this post from Jack Rickard about the Right to Repair :
http://evtv.me/2015/04/right-to-repair-why-it-matters/

Henry Ford's Wife Choose Detroit Electric Over Ford Model T

1914 Detroit Electric

As TIME magazine recently wrote:

"Girls dig electric cars. At least that was the marketing message back in 1915, when petrol-powered autos were beginning to decisively pull away from electric ones. Battery-powered vehicles retained popularity among female drivers in cities, who valued them for their reliability — they wouldn't blow up, as gas cars were known to do on occasion — and ease of use."

"Clara Ford, wife of Henry, whose Model T all but decimated the electric car, drove a 1914 Detroit Electric. (What her husband made of the fact that she wasn't driving a Ford is lost to history.) The Detroit models could run 80 miles on a single charge, with a top speed of about 20 mph. Pokey, but this was before the age of Danica Patrick."

Apparently, Clara Ford knew what Henry Ford didn't: electric vehicles were and still are more reliable than gas automobiles.  Clara couldn't risk a break down, so electric it was.  Today, we'd prefer to avoid a break down, so electric it is.  Times may have changed the automotive landscape, but the truths that applied to electric vehicles a century ago still apply today.


1914 Ford Model T

Source: Inside EVs  + TIME

Nissan Looks Back at Developing Highways, Fueling Stations and Similarities to Today

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (Mar. 8, 2013) -- Charlie Yaeger is 97 years old. He has been driving for more than 80 years. He has driven everything from a Ford Model T to Nissan Maxima to a 1916 Baker

At that time, it was difficult to find a gas station, just it is difficult nowadays to find a fast charging station ...

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"