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Honda Goldwing Conversion

Posted 12-27-2011 at 08:45 PM by RogerK

I am doing an electrical conversion of an 88 Honda Goldwing. I wll try to post here frequent enough to show progress and share useful information.

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VW Build

Posted 12-17-2011 at 02:25 PM by Ace_bridger

I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought.

It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV.

The lights, etc run from a dedicated 12V battery (missing) and all the wiring is there so it should just be a matter of sticking the battery in.
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Almost famous

Posted 11-10-2011 at 06:01 AM by bruceme
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Tags electric vehicle, outreach, podcast, publicity

I'm a software engineer by trade, and I was recently on the a popular industry podcast
.Net Rocks.

About a month ago they hinted that they wanted to do an off-topic show on Electric Vehicles. So I wrote them an email and they wrote back and before I knew it, I was on the show. Anyway, we talked about all topics EV, and I am pretty proud that I got to introduce EV to a much broader audience. It's one thing to geek out with the converted, but to reach out to those who may...

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Converting a Formula SAE Car to Electric Power

Posted 11-01-2011 at 11:02 PM by EV Dawg

Greetings!

I am mechanical engineering student at the University of Washington and I thought I share my senior design project that a couple of other students and I are working on for the UW Formula SAE Team. It is to convert the 2010 built car to electric power!

The design phase has gone on for a while now and is nearly complete! Just now have we decided to write about it because it would be a real treat if we could actually build it! Here are some design specs....

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RIPPERTON Electric track bike

Posted 10-30-2011 at 12:11 PM by gplate

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the 600's came back on Tuesday and had one in the bike the same afternoon.
It performs ok and doesnt cut out but has rough regen especially at low speed.
Anyway I made a new dash board and installed a blue led in between the 2 kelly led's which lights up when the cooling system is running so now i dont forget to turn it on.