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Cats and electric cars are shy of water. Except this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJC7E06IBXI It is not a Tesla although it looks like one, because of the same Lotus Elise and it is even a Cabri au Lait. I do not want to go fishing and I do not want to cross the Channel in our little...

Sorry text is german but it is mostly pictures. If you need the pictures - steal them. It is a pirates site after all and I wont sue. http://www.piraten-fraktion-bergstrasse.de/AETC/Sinsheim-2013-0420.html Enjoy Peter and Karin

At the EV meeting April 20, 2013 at Museum Sinsheim I have seen an Ion charging without EVSE. standing side by side a Mitsu i-MiEV charging with EVSE. I have tried it myself and I have tried faking a pilot signal with a max232 driver and did not succeed so far. Maybe there is a...

We had a short ride yesterday / yesteryear and have been charging a little bit today. Looking how much range I noticed the 12V system misbehaved. Lights dimmed and the fake motor sound sounded like the 12V dropped rapidly. Display looked somewhat darker than usual, indicators missing. Charging...

I have listened a bit on evtv.me and watched their tests. At least for one cell, I am not sure if that is the famous, made in USA but imported from China and produced in Korea ... They found what counts is the temperature of the electrodes, not cell temperature, not ambient temperature...

Just tried my antenna that clips onto the window today. The window is far too thin. Battery is great. It is almost impossible to drain the battery but you might have to keep the key in the lock and turned to "Ready". With hamradio your range might exceed the range of your batteries but CB...

Does the 12V battery get charged or not? Now I can tell you for sure it gets charged when you plug in. I modified a 12V 3/5 A charger (3A really, 5A eff) so I can plug it into the socket in the cockpit. No need to stay in the rain when experimenting. When I switch to "ACC" the socket contacts...

Got my Voltec today. Looks nice, more solid than I thought after reading ... Got a Schuko plug on a very short tail and manual said "no extension!" Gripping the handle of the J1772 plug, car side, turns the torch on. No more need for a light. I tried 230V/6A first because I primarily want it...

It depends on the driver I guess but ours were a bit sado maso. Both Karin and me felt uncomfortable when driving downhill in particular. I have heard Toyota Prius and Yaris but several tries for the keeper of their supply shop went rather unlucky and we tried the bone yard finally. There are...

It feels like oil prices climbing again. That is why we visited "Big Snowwhite" today, 105 horsepowers, station wagon. We brought her to the gas station to bunker some 98 ROZ. She was relaxing on old age pension for some 3 month and we had feed her 12V batteries some electricity the week before...

Can you imagine a petrol powerd car taking his petrol pump, hose and nozzle wherever he goes? In germany we do, EV people at least do. Too few charging points, most of them the wrong plug or the wrong RFID card or not public. So most of us do charging in the wild from camping grounds where the...