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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It In 2013, he installed lithium batteries, and in 2017, he replaced the stalled-out DC motor with an AC version.

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. I modified the wiring in the original 914 AC kit (as suggested by Paul Jorg) to turn on the regen when the brake lights came on instead of controlling regen by releasing the accelerator pedal.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It In 2013, he installed lithium batteries, and in 2017, he replaced the stalled-out DC motor with an AC version.

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Audis e-tron quattro EV: evolutionary powertrain with a dash of revolution for production in 2018; MLB evo

Green Car Congress

This could eventually have a role comparable to that of the Volkswagen Group’s modular diesel and modular gasoline engine kits (MDB and MOB). (“Baukasten” = German for construction kit). The resulting two-motor system could become part of the MLB evo kit, said Prof.

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Who Actually Owns Tesla’s Data?

Cars That Think

The license plate on that car showed that it was registered to Exelorate Enterprises LLC, the parent company of Steer EV —a DC-based monthly vehicle subscription service. They say that they are anonymizing the trigger results,” but “you could probably match everything to a single person if you wanted to.”

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Opinions and Rants

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I lost much sleep last night obsessing about how I could fix the DC-DC converter and, as a result, I was very tired and had an irritable day. I find out this morning from Ross Cunniff (who also recently completed the 914 AC kit), that he has had ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS with his CCPower DC-DC converter.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

s electric conversions spends about 100 days moving through 20 discrete shop bays, where it undergoes about 2,200 person-hours of meticulous restoration. And Electric Classic Cars is developing a bolt-in conversion kit for vintage Mini Coopers, in tandem with Super Coopers in Buellton, Calif. Each of E.C.D.’s