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[...] U.S. Each "set" weighs 0.19 lbs if you are into calculating such things. Regards; Jack Rickard http://EVTV.me [...]

[...] . We'll see how THAT turns out - very risky actually. I still don't like their battery program. Jack Rickard http://EVTV.me [...]

[...] ;o we'll have lots of room. But I don't really know where this goes in 2013. See you there. Jack Rickard http://EVTV.me [...]

[...] on the Escalade build, looking cool is kind of required. Your mileage may of course vary.... Jack Rickard http://EVTV.me [...]

[...] /brake pump, we use 2 kWh per hour sitting there. Not a great feat of efficiency in an electric car. As this car will probably average 750 Wh per mile, idling for an hour would be the [...]

[...] the controller AND the charger. In this case, that now means inside the battery box. So my electric car is moving one piece at a time into the battery box in back. And I'm not sure I can stem the [...]

[...] week, there was NOTHING. I mean NO news. Chris Paine of course produced "Who Killed the Electric Car" and of course this year's documentary "Revenge of the Electric Car" which he [...]

[...] reenforces false stereotypes about electric cars among the public. If you have a lead powered electric car, please hide it from view. But the desire for a lesser cost battery, and the willingness to [...]

[...] a mess I have to tell you. With lead, you got about 11 miles to a charge. No heat of any kind. Electric cars were tough I tell you. THere were no MOSFETs. There WAS such a thing as a field effect [...]

[...] does is open the door to smaller, lighter, cheaper battery packs for smaller, lighter, cheaper electric cars. And why is that important to someone building a $160,000 Cadillac Escalade Project? Well, [...]

[...] locally that they are becoming much more aggressive.  "Your the guy with the electric cars...right?" I am indeed the guy. Stay with us. Jack RIckard http://EVTV.me [...]

[...] gas stations that fuel them as well? Solar powered gas stations. Delivering electricity. To Electric cars. Without the pain. Ding dongs and Ho-Hos akimbo. This thing grows into a huge, vertically [...]

[...] comfortable seating for four adults, five in a pinch.  I think we'll have the usual 80-100 mile range in town.  But there is potential for some blue sky on the highway. We noted on the Ford [...]

[...] and thus energy requirements should go down. I'm aiming for a flatenum series car with 35 mile range to 100%, only it actually goes FIFTY miles on a charge with a per mile energy usage down around [...]

[...] a model for a very light Speedster where that was the sole supply and we accepted a 35 mile range in the car in exchange for lightness which is of course next to Godliness in the land of [...]

[...] respects and make a better, more trouble free car to last a lifetime.  I like having 100 mile range even if I'm never going to use it. The ongoing soap opera with the company A123 is just beyond [...]

[...] in the Escalade and mate to the transmission.  Turns out the shaft cap of the 6L80E torque converter protrudes 0.945 inches while the 4L80E is about a half an inch.  This caused the motor [...]

[...] we had planned. One of the issues is access to the bolts that connect our flex plate to the torque converter. We lack the largish starter motor hole of the original engine. Mr. Husted provided us a [...]

[...] the Siamese 11 inch motors in the Escalade and connected to the 6L80E transmission and torque converter. In the end, I'm just terribly pleased with how this all came out. The two motors are of [...]

[...] brush failure of the H49 brushes after a total of 120 miles on his car. Because of the torque converter and mounting, installing the motor on this vehicle will be non-trivial. Worse, our usual [...]

[...] to warm the large passenger area. The fluid exiting the heat exchanger will be routed to the battery box where it wanders through a series of loops of pex tubing beneath a false aluminum floor in the [...]

[...] from the Manzanit to the cell terminals, although with the charger mounted on TOP of the battery box, those cables are quite short. Again, we're going to use David Kerzel's little AC31 [...]

[...] inside the loop of both the controller AND the charger. In this case, that now means inside the battery box. So my electric car is moving one piece at a time into the battery box in back. And I'm not [...]

[...] week's episode, John Allen updates us on his Toyota build with a frightening foray into battery box warming techniques. And Royce Wood shows how to use an automatic transmission and NOT [...]

[...] the motor out with compressed air and failed to eliminate the problem. George Hamstra, of Netgain Motors had previously rebuilt this same motor and wanted a clean slate on this problem. After [...]

[...] do it, but in truth, I am subject to it myself. One of the issues is the reversibility of the Netgain motors. If the brushes are offset from center, and if they are radiuses to a round commutator, how [...]

[...] during art class in the second grade. But whatever I do adds 1/3 to the weight and volume of A123 cells. You can pretty much figure that if it takes 10 cells and they weigh .496grams each that will [...]

[...] What do you mean obsessive/compulsive? This week we continue our obsession on A123 cells. I fear this obsession on developing a mechanical package for these cells to use in a car is [...]

[...] turned around but it's a setback after all this work. Meanwhile, I blew experimental A123 module La Troiseme number two WIDE OPEN. I've already heard from a number of viewers DEMANDING [...]

[...] PTC heater elements and a Kilovac relay. And as promised, I show the damage done to our A123 module attempts and even pry open one of the cells to look at the very different looking cathode on [...]

[...] made at Cape Machine Shop. As long as we are doing that, I'm thinking to order a 1400 rpm torque converter.  I inadvertently did the verbal switcher and referred to this as lockup.   [...]