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BATTERY JUMP SHIFT 26 Jun 2012 | 10:49 pm
Of all the lithium chemistries available, we’ve found the LiFePo4 based lithium cells to offer the best combination of safety, stability, cycle life, power, and energy density. Though slightly less ca...
HEARTBEAT 24 Jun 2012 | 09:00 pm
Tesla made their July 2012 delivery date in grand style on June 22. Video of the event HERE. This week, I could not help but comment on both the paramilitary precision with which they are executing t...
A Little Bit of Sunshine and the Tesla Stockholders Meeting. 16 Jun 2012 | 12:51 am
If you can't tell from this week's video, I've become something of an Elon Musk/Tesla fanboy. We kind of stole a largish portion of their video for today's show. Unfortunately it had some Beat of the ...
Missing Week And Elescalade Blues 12 Jun 2012 | 10:32 am
My wife informed me last Thursday evening that she was going to Fort Lauderdale to graduate with her Doctorate Degree from Nova Southeast University. She was leaving Friday morning at 11:00. As it tur...
Hydrogen Gods and the Nieuwe Elektrische Boot 3 Jun 2012 | 11:26 pm
This week you get a twofer as I didn't post a blog with last week's show. I was gonna.... and....see....what happened was.....see.... Actually, it is embarrassing. THe sheet with the data on it for t...
Escaladus Interruptus and the Catellier Effect 22 May 2012 | 05:30 am
This week, we were hard at work in the 2008 Electric Cadillac Escalade EXT conversion and we are at a very rewarding phase of the build where things move along quite quickly. Tim Catellier of Chandle...
Messin with Wires. 14 May 2012 | 04:11 am
This week we mostly deal with wiring issues on the 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT Electric. The motors are in and we spun them up using a 12v A123 battery module. Very quiet and vibration free. We mounte...
Tang Zhengping and John Allen - Brothers from Another Mother 8 May 2012 | 04:32 am
This week we begin the more pleasurable work of installing pieces and wiring them up on the 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT. Some mounting issues. We installed the two Soliton1 controllers at angles abov...
Escalade Motor Implant - Finally. 1 May 2012 | 01:19 am
So a long show this week. Some say long and boring. I would be wounded to think this is so. Is not the entire world hanging breath abated for the next few minutes of every episode? That is of cour...
Untitled 24 Apr 2012 | 03:27 am
Short show this week guys. I've had more to do this past week than I can quite say grace over. Brain has been studiously trying to trial fit the motor in the Escalade and mate to the transmission. ...
