Electric VW Transporter Episode 8

The good work continues ...


"In this episode we install the heater, instrumentation, and throttle control"

More info on his website: www.EV4Unow.com

Renault ZOE Overview - Interior, Intrumentation and Charge Port

Few days before the 2012 Paris Motor Show, I went to Renault EV Center to check out what they had at the moment

To my surprise, another Zoe was there, white this time, and with the doors open ... (last time I came everything was locked)

The exterior design is a hit I think, very nice

Zoe Dashboard => it's Green :-)

Front door interior

Dashboard with central screen

Central console touch screen & air conditioning controls

Central console lever (a bit big for Drive / Neutral / Reverse but why not)

Dashboard, right side, with a nice finish touch

Instrumentation close up

R-Link Navigation Touchscreen

Main Menu

A group of visitors who will try out the Twizy later on

Warning lights on

Rear doors lever

The rear seats look really cheap :-(

and not much leg room ...

From the rear seats

Then I asked my son to find the button to open the charge port 

Like the LEAF, it is located at the bottom left of the dash

And there it is, opening at the front, behind the Renault logo, with a illuminated Z.E. in the back

Once the charge port door is opened, there is another cap to remove ...

hiding the Type 2 charge port

Pins close up

And this is a charge station that could be used for AC quick charging

EVTV Friday Show - August 24, 2012

This week's program:
- Return of the eCobra - in new paint and livery but in need of a DC-DC Converter
- Cadillac Escalade EXT heating, air conditioning, and a bit of instrumentation
- Also Jack explains very well how heat pump / air conditioning works




The eCobra returns ... to the shop for some DC-DC Converter blow up problems ...

Beautiful paint job and hard-top version

Warp Industrial controller

And back to the Escalade

Jack shows us his home made electric heating system

and 2 250W engine block heaters will keep the battery pack temp above freezing in winter

A WiFi router plugged into one of the Soliton 1controllers will broadcast data into the cabin ...

and Jack will be able to use the EV Speedo app as a dashboard instrumention display using a Android tablet

The graphical version appears to be slow (bug or WiFi problem ?), so instead here is also some bar graphs showing real time usefull information this time: Temperature, Amps, Volts, RPM from the controller