Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.

Kits 185

Kits Conversion Golf Cart Saturn 185

Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 8, 2008

It seems like this will be good enough as long as all the designs have the Open Hardware License (OHL) identification on them. The next hurdle was finding free tools with which to design various parts with. I'm going to start with this as the documentation tool. The best one I could find was from TAPR (link at right).

Google 100

Google Kits Oregon Design 100

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

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.

Convert 100

Convert Kits Conversion DC 100

Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2022

Now designated the i860, it entered development in 1986 about the same time as the 80486, the yet-to-be-introduced successor to Intel’s highly regarded 80286 and 80386. He had been hoping to get started on a RISC microprocessor design ever since joining Intel in 1982. One man’s crusade The paper was not to stay blank for long.

Engine 136

Engine Design Production Parts 136