Sunday, September 21, 2014

EVTV Friday Show - September 5, 2014

- Electric Yellow Thing gets running boards and Lokar throttle
- Electric Green Thing gets Wolfsburg drums and bedliner threatment
- Electric Karman Ghia gets new steering box and ball joints
- BMW i3 review
- Electric car sales heat up
- Tesla names Gigafactory sight
- Silicone rubber heating pads for battery warming
- An Arduino CAN shield for driving a Mazda RX-8 instrument cluster
- Electric BMW320i drive train issues





BMWi i3 Test Drive



Jack is selling the Smart ED



RAV4 range extender with a VW chassis and drive train



Hydrogen tanks safety issues ...






VW Thing upgraded



Green VW Thing gets full German spare parts replacement



Ed Clausen continues his conversion :
Spline shaft adaptor issue :(


Flooded carpet full replacement



Battery boxes painted



John Hardy on his Honda Civic conversion



GIZMO EV



Lisbon update


Paulo is developping a new board / shield for Arduino capable of duo CAN communication :)


and is using it right away to drive the instrument cluster in his RX8 project

Tesla Gigafactory Announcement - Elon Musk invited by Brian Sandoval in Carson City, Nevada

For those who missed it, Elon Musk was invited at the Neveda's State Capitol in Carson City for the first Tesla GigaFactory announcement earlier this month

The state will provide a 1.3 billion dollars (!) incentive, in tax break, and Tesla will build a Net Zero factory capable of producing more Lithium ion cells than the world is producing right now ...


Outside the State Capitol in Carson City, Governor Brian Sandoval and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announce that the Tesla battery Gigafactory will be built in Nevada.

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