Open Source Civic EV Kit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Here's the link to the product. They were also gracious enough to give me a 3% discount for ordering 12 batteries. The final cost was $3200.20 and they should be here Friday or Monday. Let's see if my estimations on the battery rack dimensions turn out to actually fit the batteries.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

MAY 31, 2009

This is going to be a really good product when it hits the shelves in July. Despite the faulting condition, I've been extremely happy with the power, smoothness, logging and programmability of the Synkromotive controller.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The past two days have been productive. I went to Class Act to pick up the powder-coated angle-iron and installed most of it. Here are the powder-coated pieces all nicely wrapped up to prevent damage. Here are the pieces unwrapped. Yep, all 39 pieces are there and in good condition. I started by installing the rear battery rack.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

JUNE 21, 2009

Note that this lacks a few safety features that would prevent a blow-up if the user hooked things up in reverse, so this is not a product-worthy circuit. Here is the simple circuit I put inside the charge detector box to control the FET that shorts out the large 3-ohm series charging resistor.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

AUGUST 17, 2008

Mine was originally scheduled to be shipped back on July 2nd, but Netgain has been swamped with orders for motors, so their production backlogged. This garage was no exception. Here's a crate full of Netgain Warp9 motors. I guess that's not a bad problem to have given that I want to see more EVs out there.

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