EVTV Friday Show - January 25, 2013 ** Jack Rickard chooses CHAdeMO **

Jack Rickard chooses CHAdeMO for Fast Charging

 because it uses the CAN Communication Protocol

This week:
- Test bench battery box construction
- CHAdeMO / SAE standards war
- Electric Ford Edge upgrade



News

Boing 787 Battery Fire; As usual for Jack, "It's the - over engineered - BMS ..."

Mitsubishi i-MiEV recall on breaks vaccum pump problem

Richard tested a small EV, and he liked it :-)

CHAdeMO talking

The Institute of Technology... Test Bench Battery Box Construction

I like that ...

Macchina from RechargeCar plugged in Jack's MacBook Pro

JLD404 - super - meter on top of the battery box

The soon to come Pulsar - super - charger

Jack's wife Ford Edge EV is being revisited and improved

EVTV Friday Show - December 28, 2012

- Speedster Nippon heating and cooling issues

- Autoblock AMP legacy gauge driver for State of Charge



Jack has a great idea and wants to replace income tax witn an Energy Tax, based on how much energy people use; That would definetely push people to reduce their energy usage / consumption to pay less tax and then solve some global warming problems ... BTW this is what Denmark has done and 2/3 of the price per kWh is taxes

Honda Hybrid is a good base for full Electric Drive convsersions

RechargeCar AutoBlock Amp tested in the battery lab

Speedster Nippon



Cooling gear installed

and AutoBlock Amp from RechargeCar for the fuel gauge

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 ...