Amazing Growth- A 33 day snapshot of DIYelectriccar
Posted 02-03-2009 at 02:18 PM by mattW
Tags growth, statistics
Just out of curiosity I thought it might be interesting to record to statistics of DIY electric car, since it seemed like it was growing pretty fast. After just a month of fairly sporadic recording of the threads, posts, members and active members I found the results pretty surprising. If you're interesting in statistics or just want to see how the website is going then check out these numbers (and excuse my dodgy excel graphs)...
Over the past 33 days that I have been recording diyelectriccar.com has experienced some pretty amazing results. On the 6th of April the forums had 362 active members, just over a month later and there are 508. That's a 40% jump in the past 33 days with an average of 4.4 new active members per day. Total members is interesting reading as well which increased from 1,028 members to 1,390 in the same time period, close to 11 new members per day. At first I was fairly surprised at the turnover rate indicated by the difference between to two stat's, but I realised it is pretty consistent with what we find on the website. There is quite a lot of members who enquire about electric cars with unreasonable expectations and decide that they don't want a conversion after all. Nevertheless the core members of the website from personal observation seems to be growing consistently as well, we've currently got 23 senior members (100+ posts) and 51 members (30+ posts). A recent poll on the site found that 57% of respondents had either started or were driving in their EV conversions. In terms of activity on the forums:
As you can see the number of posts per day is pretty consistent at 172 per day, which is pretty impressive. There has also been about 49 new threads a day which is much more than I expected. The wiki has had 12 new topics written by quite a few different people, something I'm very proud of too.
I hope you have found these statistics as interesting as I have. I have no idea what is good or bad growth for forums but I am encouraged by what has been experienced over the past month. World oil prices might of had something to do with it but I'd like to think that the knowledge and friendliness of our members has gone a long way. Thanks to all the members for their contribution and lets keep thinking of new ways to improve in order to make it as easy as possible for people to get their own EV grin!
Over the past 33 days that I have been recording diyelectriccar.com has experienced some pretty amazing results. On the 6th of April the forums had 362 active members, just over a month later and there are 508. That's a 40% jump in the past 33 days with an average of 4.4 new active members per day. Total members is interesting reading as well which increased from 1,028 members to 1,390 in the same time period, close to 11 new members per day. At first I was fairly surprised at the turnover rate indicated by the difference between to two stat's, but I realised it is pretty consistent with what we find on the website. There is quite a lot of members who enquire about electric cars with unreasonable expectations and decide that they don't want a conversion after all. Nevertheless the core members of the website from personal observation seems to be growing consistently as well, we've currently got 23 senior members (100+ posts) and 51 members (30+ posts). A recent poll on the site found that 57% of respondents had either started or were driving in their EV conversions. In terms of activity on the forums:
As you can see the number of posts per day is pretty consistent at 172 per day, which is pretty impressive. There has also been about 49 new threads a day which is much more than I expected. The wiki has had 12 new topics written by quite a few different people, something I'm very proud of too.
I hope you have found these statistics as interesting as I have. I have no idea what is good or bad growth for forums but I am encouraged by what has been experienced over the past month. World oil prices might of had something to do with it but I'd like to think that the knowledge and friendliness of our members has gone a long way. Thanks to all the members for their contribution and lets keep thinking of new ways to improve in order to make it as easy as possible for people to get their own EV grin!
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To continue this growth, we must be vocal proponents of EV's. That means talking about it at home/work/recreation, etc. Talk to John Q. Public. The more people hear about us, the more your little graph will go up.
I'm showing my EV off at a small car show next week. It isn't the prettiest or most high-tech EV, but it will draw attention.Posted 05-08-2008 at 02:18 PM by grose 
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There may be a correlation...
Posted 05-08-2008 at 09:24 PM by ClintK
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LOL
Good spotting!
Posted 05-09-2008 at 02:51 AM by KiwiEV
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I went to a sale today and bought a 2 wheel tow dolly. A couple of us are planning on going to an energy fair, in August and this will be a great way to get our cars there.
I need to sandblast it and repaint, rewire it. It came with 2 new tires that are worth the price I paid for it.
Plus...I can rent it out.Posted 05-10-2008 at 10:43 PM by Coley 
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A headhunter called me today asking would I be willing to work in the city for more money. I said I would consider it, but as I was in the middle of convering my car to run on batteries instead of petrol I'm pretty happy with my 20km commute.Quote:Originally Posted by grose
To continue this growth, we must be vocal proponents of EV's. That means talking about it at home/work/recreation, etc. Talk to John Q. Public. The more people hear about us, the more your little graph will go up.
She was really impressed (hard to tell if she was faking it or not) and we chatted about fuel prices and lack of govt support due to taxability (or lack thereof). I sent her the link to "oil - it's not you its me" so we'll see what happens.
It's absolutely a hot topic anywhere due to fuel prices and I'm getting easier and easier with responses to the typical questions/objections. Bring on $150/bbl at xmas and we'll see if its impossible to drive to work on batteries!! (My conversion should be finished by then).Posted 06-18-2008 at 12:03 AM by jlsawell
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Very well done, I am impressed.
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What about the water when it rains, is the motor sealed or...........?
How do you or would you prevent H20 from shorting out the motor, build a water proof box?
I'm new to this & looking in to building a trike motorcycle (getting all the info right now) for around town usage etc.
Thanks,
P.S. Our Minister is from New Zealand & his brother is still there, I'll have to show him this.Posted 09-16-2008 at 07:34 PM by Rollbar
