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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. of Oregon, Kitware. of Oregon, Kitware. PROTEAS: PROgramming Toolchain for Emerging Architectures and Systems, Jeff Vetter, ORNL with ANL, LANL, Univ. of Wisconsin.

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My 2007 Dream Project

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Since I live in Portland, Oregon, I went to a meeting with the Oregon Electric Vehicle Association and found out about several companies that provided drop-in electric conversion kits for existing cars. I'm currently working with Craig Loughlin out at Camp914 to purchase a 1976 Porsche 914 for the conversion.

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Used Car of the Day: 2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser Trail Teams Ultimate Edition

The Truth About Cars

The mods include a lift kit, roof rack, off-road bumpers, beadlock wheels, onboard compressor, off-road tires, and much more. If you want to see the full list of mods on this Oregon-based rig, click here. The seller just performed some major maintenance on this rig and it's got more modifications than I can list here.

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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. Next up: organizing the civic-ev-kit Google group to get tasks lined up. I really appreciate working on electric vehicles due to the lack of fluids and other dirt. 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.

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Measuring State-of-Charge on Lead Acid Batteries

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The 914 AC kit uses 8V golf cart batteries and I'm wondering if different batteries like Hawkers or Optima Yellow-Top batteries would be better. We might possibly work together on a project after chatting at the next OEVA (Oregon Electric Vehicle Association) meeting. Both US-Battery and Trojan have 8-volt golf-cart batteries.

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