Porsche 914 EV Conversion
MARCH 29, 2008
I spent over seven hours on my feet at the Portland Better Living Show displaying the 914. On a side note, I purchased a DVD from Bob Bath regarding his CivicWithACord project. This is one of the prime candidates for the open-source vehicle conversion kit I'd like to work on, so there's lots of information to leverage.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
OCTOBER 12, 2006
After seeing the movie Who Killed The Electric Car , I got the nutty idea earlier this year to purchase an all-electric vehicle to commute to work. I was going to purchase an NmG from Myers Motors , but found the driver compartment a bit crowded and the driving range limited (only about 40 miles).
Open Source Civic EV Kit
APRIL 22, 2008
In the process, I've found several folks in the Portland area who are willing to help out with a variety of skills and talents. getting a '92-'95 Civic and start hacking away to get the battery boxes and other components laid out starting on documentation for the conversion kit (tool list, parts list, etc.)
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
OCTOBER 14, 2006
This is a picture of the yellow 914 that I'm going to be purchasing from Camp914 near Portland as a base platform for the electric vehicle conversion. I'm looking forward to getting the car soon since the kit from Electro Automotive should be here by mid-January.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JULY 1, 2007
The instructions for the AC kit tell you to slide the motor speed control box through the two-inch hole that was cut in the wall between the engine compartment and the rear luggage compartment. Electro Auto forgot to include the post terminals for the most-positive and most-negative connections in the kit.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JUNE 22, 2007
I ran out and purchased several 1-guage pre-constructed battery cables from Napa today to wire the batteries together, but they were very expensive (16 of them at $12.95 I ran out to United Welding Supply today in Portland (on NE MLK) and picked up 20 feet of 2/0 welding cable. I'm curious what else is in this shipment.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. To convince me and the general public about purchasing an electric car, there are a lot of challenges to overcome.
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