Electronics shop offering more than plug in Televisions.

UK based electrical retailer giant Comet have just launched a trial electric vehicle ‘Plug & Go’ charging point scheme at their Croydon superstore. If successful the scheme will be rolled out at all of Comet’s 250 stores nationwide.
Comet aren’t new to the electric car scheme. Back in the 1980s they sold Sir Cilve Sinclair’s famous C5 electric trike, and have hinted they may sell electric cars again.

Hacked Prius runs at 70 mph in EV ONLY mode!

Chris Ewart of EwartEnergy.com has released details of a new Prius software system which allows a Plug in Prius to be operated at up to 70 mph in all electric mode!
Read the full article for a video of his demonstration and more info about how the stock Prius is able to sustain 70 mph in EV mode.

Cars without engines. A great conversion possibility!

Ebay is a great place to look if you’re looking for that car to convert to an EV. Why waste your time taking out the engine and ancillaries when someone else may have already done it for you?
Here are some of the DIY projects you could use right away to convert a car to electric.

If you’re one of the many people waking up to EV ownership and finding that the current vehicles on the market aren’t just cutting the mustard for you, or are two expensive or too slow then converting your vehicle from a petrol engine to an electric motor is a great option. Sadly though, taking your existing car off the road for the few weeks or even months that it takes to convert to electricity isn’t a practical solution – especially if your vehicle has marketable retail value as a gas-powered vehicle or you want to keep it as a ‘long distance runner’ for the days when you just simply can’t get your EV to drive that 400 mile round trip to see granny in a day.

You’re then left with a situation where you desperately want to convert a car (like so many other EV hopefuls) to get that EV grin, but you realize that the best way to move forward is to source a donor vehicle – one which could happily give up it’s engine for the cause of electric vehicle goodness.

Cars with no engines are a great buy for conversion to electric.

This month’s compeition winner is…

In the merry month of May www.aminorjourney.com has had a great prize-draw giveaway for some lucky twitter follower to be given a copy of the equally merry adventures of Mr. Gavin Shoebridge, AKA the man from KiwiEv.com Gav’s fantastic DVD, chronicling the work he did to convert a Mitsubishi Tredia to fully electric power is…

EVcast 240

Today I was joined in the UK studio by John Honniball, EV-nut, Electronics Engineer and Software Programmer. He explains some of the basic bits and bobs found in an EV, concentrating on controllers and motors. The video recording is below. It’s worth watching as John shows some electronics he’s brought along. However, the sound isn’t…