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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

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.

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Exascale Computing Project selects 35 software development proposals for $34M in first year funding

Green Car Congress

Extreme-scale Scientific Software Development Kit for the Exascale Computing Project: xSDK4ECP, Lois Curfman McInnes, ANL with LBNL, LLNL, SNL, Univ. ExaHDF5: Delivering Efficient Parallel I/O on Exascale Computing Systems, Suren Byna, LBNL with ANL, The HDF Group. of Oregon, Kitware. of Oregon, Kitware. of Wisconsin.

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Going Back to U-Pull-It - Don't try this at Home

Open Source Civic EV Kit

I ran the meeting for the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association last night and several people seemed interested in the open-source EV kit. We didn't have enough time to break into smaller groups, but that will happen next month. Next up: organizing the civic-ev-kit Google group to get tasks lined up. Cheers, Tim.

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Open Source Tools and Open Hardware License

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Although Google Sketchup and Kicad both store files in a proprietary format, official releases of the Civic EV kit will contain (as required in the Open Hardware License agreement) files in a commonly readable format such as.PDF Several free.PDF writers exist that I can print to just like a regular printer. Cheers, Tim.

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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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Controller Overheating and Vacuum Pump Issues

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Other interesting news: I'm resigning as chairperson of the local Oregon Electric Vehicle Association. Ross Peterson just finished his Civic-EV during the past two months based on the open-source Civic-EV kit and he's got the "EV Grin." Stay tuned for details on the vacuum pump installation.

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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway

Baua Electric

It’s also a good idea to travel with a single-burner cooktop — electric to use inside, or propane to use at rest areas and campgrounds — and a camp mess kit so that you can safely cook meals. This keeps everything cold for a couple of days at a time.

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