Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2012
The rules explicitly exclude devices used to charge a motor vehicle that is powered by an electric motor drawing current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, or other portable sources of electrical current, and which may include a nonelectrical source of power designed to charge batteries and components.
Charged EVs
MAY 2, 2024
Unless the EV was a golf cart, you’ll have to reconfigure the cells to deliver 48 V nominal, so don’t count on using the original BMS (which probably won’t work, anyway, without a lot of code-hacking) and you’ll still be taking the risk that the battery was abused so much that it has no real usable capacity left.
Baua Electric
MAY 29, 2024
As LSVs, these are classified as motor vehicles, but not in the same way as passenger cars. That means that a recharge likely costs you roughly the amount of loose change you’ve got dangling around in the bottom of your pocket. Wink Motors is a fairly new startup with interesting offerings, and has a new model coming to the US soon.
Baua Electric
MAY 2, 2024
Unless the EV was a golf cart, you’ll have to reconfigure the cells to deliver 48 V nominal, so don’t count on using the original BMS (which probably won’t work, anyway, without a lot of code-hacking) and you’ll still be taking the risk that the battery was abused so much that it has no real usable capacity left.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
MAY 13, 2007
I went back to Parkrose hardware today to pick up stainless steel bolts to attach the motor cables to the controller. This switch prevents the motor controller from engaging when the accelerator pedal is pressed. On a more dangerous note, I ordered my 18 USBatt 8-v golf-cart batteries from American Battery company in California.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2015
As outlined by Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford in his keynote at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Blueprint for Mobility defines the start of Ford’s thinking on what transportation will look like in 2025 and beyond, and the technologies, business models and partnerships needed to get there.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 22, 2009
Great Wall Motor Co., Those prices are much lower than that of General Motors Corp.s Chinese auto makers also showed other types of "new energy" vehicles, including regular gasoline-electric hybrids to compete with Toyota Motor Corp.s and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. in late 2010. Prius hybrid.
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