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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle. Arming yourself with an emergency car kit can help give you peace of mind if you happen to get stranded in the elements. It should include items such as granola bars, a reflective blanket, rope or cordage and a first aid kit.

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2024 Honda Prologue electric SUV starts under $40,000 with full EV tax credit eligibility

Baua Electric

Option B includes a portable Level 1 and 2 charging kit, $250 installation credit, $300 EVgo credit, and 60 kWh intro charging at EA. Honda Prologue Elite interior (Source: Honda) The first option (A) includes a Level 2 Home charger, a $500 installation credit, a $100 EVgo charging credit, and a 60 kWh Electrify America intro charging.

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How to Plan Summer Travel with an EV

Blink Charging

Don’t forget: while all plug-in electric vehicles can use a Level 2 charger, not all EVs can use a DC fast charger. With the Blink app, you can filter for Level 2 versus DC fast chargers, check live station availability, view pricing, get directions, and even find nearby amenities!

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Ordering a Motor Adapter

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After some significant debate at the Civic-EV Google Group on whether to use a clutched or clutch-less system, I'm going to pursue using a clutched system for the initial revision of this kit. With a clutched system, I just order the shaft and transmission adapter from Electro Auto and everything is just done.

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Acura reveals 2024 ZDX prices, its first all-electric vehicle costs more than the Cadillac Lyriq

Baua Electric

Acura also said the 2024 ZDX will be its first model with built-in Google and dedicated EV features. In addition to built-in Google, the 2024 ZDX will be Acura’s first vehicle to feature Bang & Olufsen premium audio. The company also revealed plans to launch a “Type S” variant to carry its performance history in the electric era.

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Hyundai’s 2019 IONIQ electrified line-up adds active safety features, voice recognition, remote charge management

Green Car Congress

All Ioniq Electric models are equipped with standard Level-3 DC fast-charging capability. Charging the Ioniq Electric’s lithium-ion polymer battery up to 80% only takes about 23 minutes using a SAE Combo Level-3 DC, 100 kW fast-charger. cubic feet. Some features can also be controlled via Android Wear and Apple Watch smartwatch apps.

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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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