Unfiltered Grounds » electric-vehicles http://unfilteredgrounds.com/blog Idea's - information | resources - dicussion | coffee Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:17:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Electric Transportation http://unfilteredgrounds.com/blog/2009/04/electric-transportation/ http://unfilteredgrounds.com/blog/2009/04/electric-transportation/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:06:14 +0000 pete http://unfilteredgrounds.com/blog/?p=1516 Contrary to popular market the technology needed for long range electric vehicles has existed publicly for over 100 years.  Imagine that radical changes that would come to surface by implementing electric vehicles in the mainstream.  To not have to pay for gasoline or any fuel at all if the vehicle is charged using a renewable energy source.  To not worry about vehicle maintenance and the constant enslavement required in the operation of combustion engines.  This technology must progress immediately and should be done by new engineers and techno-pioneers as apposed to huge corporations that will find ways to exploit any little cranny they can to keep up the otherwise non-relative service industry.

In the future unfiltered grounds will be posting DIY kits using ‘buggy’ chassis to completely construct an electric vehicle with the closest concept to ‘open hardware’ that is available to us.

Electric Vehicles are commonly DC systems however AC systems are becoming more common, it’s debatable which is a better technology to use.

Electric vehicles, be it a cycle or car use these basic components:
AC or DC Electric Motor, Batteries, Charge Controller, Speed Controller
Variably an AC system uses a inverter/speed controller and we are now seeing the use of ultra-capacitors for energy storage and for the application of regenerative braking.

Check out http://www.electricvehiclesusa.com/ for parts and kits.

http://evhelp.com/

http://www.eaaev.org

http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html

http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/02/04/mission-one-150-mph-ev-sport-bike/

http://www.evdrives.com/

open-source:
http://www.theworkshop.ca/energy/picox/4/picox4.htm – open-source motor controller software that can be built with a picoITX small form computer. Pico computers can be found here ]]> http://unfilteredgrounds.com/blog/2009/04/electric-transportation/feed/ 0