Tomorrow there is an electric car rally.
http://gogeogo.com/electriccarrallyhawaii/ I have been invited to participate. I want to give a little blurb on the car:
Project name: Geo Metro Eclectric Conversion
Car: 1993 Geo Metro Manual 2 door
Conversion time: some work most weekends for 3 months
First driven as electric: Jan 27th 2008
Motor: ES-15A Series Motor 40 HP Peak - 12 HP Cont.
Batteries: Hi-power Lithium LIFEPO4 100 amp hour 72 volt capacity 7 KW hours
Range: 30 miles
Drive train uses existing manual transmission with no clutch.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Featuring my Geo at the opening of GEO
Green Energy Oulet, http://www.gogeogo.com had thier grand opening on Saturday. The local paper showed up and ended up putting a picture of me and the Geo in the Sunday paper.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Work on new charger for lithium pack
I wired up and tested the voltage on thepower supplies I got in from China. I was able to adjust the voltage to the corrct level with the power supplies wired in series.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Wind Power
Found this house with a sizable vertical access wind turbin not far from where I live on Dole st.
Be great to use that to charge my car
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sticky pots
I finally figured out how to simply solve a niggling problem I have had with the Metro for a long time. When the the car has not been driven for a day or more, when I first start out, the acceleration would be jerky. This is especially problematic for reversing, since it reverses fast. After I would drive a little while it would be nice and smooth. What I tried (and it worked), was to pump the accelerator pedal 20 times before turning on the car. Voila, smooth acceleration from the get go. So nice to solve this issue!
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