Collaborate Disseminate
Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they are notoriously hard to put out, requiring special training and equipment by firefighters. Although the …read more Continue reading Thermal Runaway: Solving the Bane of Electric Vehicles
Last year [Jimmy] got a request from a customer ([Dave]) to help convert a 1998 Nissan Frontier pickup into an electric drive vehicle, with a crashed 2019 Nissan Leaf providing …read more Continue reading From Nissan ICE Pickup to BEV With Nissan Leaf Heart
Electric cars have more widgets than ever, but manufacturers would rather you don’t have direct access to them. The Open Vehicle Monitoring System intends to change that for the user. …read more Continue reading Open Vehicle Monitoring System is the Window to Your EV’s Soul
Whether hardcore petrolheads like it or not, we appear to be living through the final years of the internal combustion engine. In many countries there are legislative timetables in place …read more Continue reading Can A $3200 Kit Convert Your Car To Electric Power?
Humans have a need for speed, and students from the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) have set a new acceleration record for an electric vehicle with a 0 to 100 …read more Continue reading Students Set EV Acceleration World Record
There are few production cars with as much geek cred as the DMC DeLorean. If you want to kick the nerdiness up a notch without doing a full Back to …read more Continue reading A DeLorean with an Electrifying Secret
Sales of electric vehicles continue to climb, topping three million cars worldwide last year. All these electric cars need batteries, of course, which means demand for rechargeable cells is through …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Don’t Automakers Make Their Own EV Batteries?
Hong Kong based [Handy Geng] has a knack for fitting his creations with a large percentage of recycled material. And as is exemplified by the video below the break, he …read more Continue reading Recycled Parts Round Out Soap Shaped Electric Car
It’s an old saying with an apocryphal origin: “May you live in interesting times“. We Brits are certainly living in interesting times at the moment, as a perfect storm of …read more Continue reading Being Green, It’s A Rich Man’s Game
The convenience of just plugging in your car in the evening and not going into a gas station is great as long as you remember to do the plugging. You …read more Continue reading A Robot To Top Up Your Tesla