Tesla Model S - The Rough Test Drive

Carlos Lago from Ignition test drives the Tesla Model S and pushes it to the limits

EVTV Store is coming to Europe - EVTV Warehouse

As Jack announces in the latest EVTV episode, Anne Kloppenborg, from New Electric in Amsterdam, is going to open a European EVTV Store to make EV parts available in Europe as well, without the customs and high shipping costs from the USA

He called it the EVTV Warehouse : 

EVTV Friday Show - October 12, 2012

Last week the video was so long that Youtube cut it in half and then removed it... but it is still available fro you to see on EVTV.me

Program:

- John Hardy battery testing in the UK

- Electric Cadillac Escalade EXT Warranty Work

- Speedster Nippon: Adaptor plate work in the shop

John Hardy's book: ICE Free & chat about a very promissing improvement in LiFePO4 battery chemistry: Silicon coted Carbon nano tubes (?) that would allow more density in Lithium ion intercalition, thus more Energy Density

John Hardy battery testing in the UK and the Problems when using Shunt Balancers

Jack is taking his Escalade to the Cadillac dealer for the a recall 

Where is the engine ?

Jack and Jesse go through the details of installing the adaptor plate, taper lock, spacer, flywheel, pressure plate & clutch  on the AC50 motor for Speedster Nippon

Return of the Electric Truck

Seen few weeks ago at the same place in Saint-Ouen, here is the the return of this DERET Electric delivery Truck

Inside the cabin, note that the Drive selector is located ton the left side

Wattson & Wattson Silver

Last Friday, after unboxing and synchronising the Wattson Silver, I took it downstairs to compare its display with the original Wattson:

Well, they display exactly the same figures, exept that the Wattson Silver would not display Net Usage (Usage - Generation), so I had to plug it into my netbook and set it up in Holmes, Wattson's software

After that, it was displaying negative values too, but the backlighting was not green, but yellow, which corresponds to an older version of Wattson - They changed this yellow color to green later on

Same figures, that is normal, they get the readings from the same transmitter

Green & Yellow for generation; Here they are displaying different figures, because they did not get the signal at the same time I guess

Both Blue, for low usage

LifePO4 ESS - Control Board Rebuilding Update #4

Status: Finished and working

What does this Control Board Rebuild do ? Well, it is cleaner now, and also independent from the battery pack and the grid tie inverters & charger... and could be placed somewhere else, it is just a matter of cables length extension

Pushing 1220W back into my home grid when all 6 grid inverters are ON

Tesla Model S - A woman's point of view

An interesting test drive of a Tesla Model S by a woman, Molly Wood from CNET's