Electric Vehicles

It's true - our little 120V Geo Metro conversion is tootling happily around Seattle, thanks to the ever-gracious Dave Cloud!

With a supposedly 90 AmpHr battery pack, we use just over 25% charge in a days normal driving to the UW and back. This should equate to roughly 36 miles to 75% discharge.

More details forthcoming, but suffice to say we have big 'ol EV grins plastered on our mugs!

Background Information/News

• Seattle Electric Vehicle Association homepage
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Battery-Electric Vehicles
• AC Propulsion drives their T-Zero from LA to Las Vegas on one charge
• Mother Earth News: Drive an EV and Never Buy Gas Again
• Smithsonian removes EV-1 from display
• Seattle Times article on hybrid plug-in conversions
• Who Killed The Electric Car?: Movie website (lots of good background info!)
  In a recent issue of Motor Trend, an interviewer asked GM chief Rick Wagoner about the central regret of his tenure. He said it was killing the EV1 program.
• Mark Dodrill's pictures from Woodburn, 2005

EV Discussion List links

• General list information
• How to subscribe & other info
• Archives
• EV-list FAQs
  

Technical information

• EV Weblog: Electric Vacuum Pumps
• EV Battery Page
• DIY: Simple EV Gas Gauge
• Info on Prius Plug-In conversions
• Regenerative Braking a DC Series Motor (not recommended; education only)
• Homepower magazine
• Apollo Energy Systems: Fuel cell development
• EPA fuel economy data
• DIY: Grill-blocking a Geo Metro
• DIY: Pusher-trailers wiki page

• EV Photo Album : 824 conversions and counting!
• Electric Karman Ghia conversion blog
• Plasma-Boy Racing: "We blow things up so you don't have to!"
• Freedom EV wiki-page

Electric Vehicles and Parts: For Sale

• EV Tradin' Post
• EV Finder
• Electric Vehicles, USA
• The Tire Rack (all things tire)
• Canadian Electric Vehicles: kits and conversions
• Wilderness E.V.: (VW, Geo, Festiva conversions and kits)
• MC Electric: Seattle-based NEV company
• Arctic Leash (retractable power cords)
• Convert It! and Build Your Own Electric Vehicle: Slightly dated but still very useful How-To books on EV conversions
• EV Parts.com

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