Fully charged Lightning GT

Robert Llewellyn lucky fellow. looks like fun.

Fully Charged

Robert answers some of the most common questions people have about electric cars.

Audi Etron

Looks nice!

Non-EV Reprap 3D printer

Adrian Bowyer has pioneered an open source self replicating 3D printer design.The machine is known as Self Replicating Rapid prototyping machine or RepRap for short. Currently the machine can print about 50% of the parts needed to make a repilica of itself. Amazing stuff, The ability to print any plastic object you need yourself is quite exciting. I wonder what percentage of parts for an ev project you could print. Actually its still early days, but as the project gains wider popularity and the collective genius of the internet sets its mind to it you can be certain this will bear fruit.

Jack and Brian give a great round up of the EV news. They also get a step closer to getting their Behemoth of an ev conversion moving.

KillaCycle 0-60 in 0.8 seconds WTF!

Non-Electric WikiSpeed

WikiSpeed is an opensource high performance car design. The plans for the car are going to published and freely available. The car is designed modularly so that the current petrol engine module can be swapped out for an electric drive module at  a future date. The combination of Opensource engineering, electric motors and new battery chemistry is going to revolutionise the motor industry. Joe justice and the project wikispeed are hurtling towards a better future.

The team are doing a croudfunding campaign. If you are in a position to chip in something its a good cause. wikispeed

Supermen of Limerick Convert their BMW

Damien Mac Namara & Pat Mac Mahon have successfully converted their  1996 BMW 523I. Well done, you're an inspiration. You can read more details on their EV album page HERE

More Ev's burning rubber!

Great.

Electric Cars Burning Rubber

Another Electric car doing a massive burnout. Electric Street Rod "Lightning Rod II" Doesn't it warm the heart. You can't make disparaging golf cart comments when your jaw is hanging open. :)

EVTV June 15th 2012

Another show from The evtv guys. Its long, but they know their stuff. Also this show has the tesla shareholders presentation. around the halfway mark.

Electric Personalities : Greg Abbot A.K.A. Gadget

Greg Abbot has been running his own EV conversion Garage. He says "any vehicle can be converted to electric"

Sugoi!

Agility Saietta | Fully Charged

Another installment of Robert Llewelly's excellent "Fully Charged". He hits the nail on the head, its not about eco its about the best tech for the job.

Electric Personalities: John Wayland

John's Electric Datsun White Zombie has got heads turning. Heres a feature from Oregan public broadcasting on the maveric ev engineer.

 

Be sure to look at his racing team website. Plasmaboy racing.

Check out the specs plenty of photos and other wacky ev's

http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/

Electric Cars Burning Rubber

If you think electric cars are all milk floats and forklifts, think again. have a look at this.
White Zombie A 1972 Datsun converted to be the fastest streetlegal electic car.

 



 1970s Datsun converted to Electric vs a gas guzzling Corvette.

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ESB Charging point

Phooey1911 reviews one of the ESB's new charging points. Part of the new electric vehicle infrastructure being built in Ireland.

Hello World, the purpose of this blog is to talk about all things Electric and hybrid Vehicles and in particular what is happening today in Ireland.
The image most commonly associated with electric cars is environmental.Lets be honest most people will pay lip service to supporting the environment but really they couldn't care less.I don't hold it against them. Personally I am quite ambivalent on the subject. But I am very excited about the possibilities of the technology.  People want safe, convenient and cheap cars.  I believe that electric vehicles can be everything we need that and have the added bonus of being green. I'm not interested in greenwashing or eco-guilt tripping. We are at a turning point where the technology has matured enough for Ev's to more than just an interesting tech hobby. 
 The way I like to explain my EV obsession to friends and family is like this. I ask them, do you remember using film cameras? loading film, dust and scratches on the negatives, waiting a week for prints.Using nasty chemicals if you were brave enough to develop photos in your own darkroom. Well do you know anyone using film now? Which would you say is better digital or analogue?
This is what the change to electric cars is going to be like. There will be no need to justify the technology on any ideological grounds, people will use them just because they are better. Better mileage better performance better safety.  That change is happening right now, and it's going to be great.

 Audi's Etron