This will be a quick entry to offer mention to the Open ReVolt project. This is a project started by a man named Paul. He wanted to build an open source EV Controller that would be inexpensive and versatile. He started a thread on EcoModder and it grew like wildfire….
There hasn’t been a post in nearly a year. There actually hasn’t been much going on with the project in that time. The car was only run for about 1 month last year and then it was parked. There were some pretty major flaws with the design on the car…
I should have done this a long time ago. With any deep cycle lead acid batteries you have to add distilled water to them on occasion. I’m not sure what the schedule for this is yet, but I think probably once a month or so it what I SHOULD be…
After sitting burried in the snow for the winter, the electric car is back on the road! When the temperature began to drop last fall it drastically reduced the efficiency of the batteries in the car. Because of that I had to park it for the winter and use my…
Here are some updated pictures of the project.
It’s beginning to get cold up here in Maine. Batteries don’t like the cold. When I first began commuting to work the car was running beautifully. Had plenty of power while driving and plenty of power left over by the time I got to work. When I first started driving…
I just posted a video in the videos section that has a couple different shots of us driving the car at different speeds. The car really is silent – all you can hear is the tires against the road. When you’re driving it you actually hear more than you do…
I got the wiring diagrams finished last week and finally got them posted today. You can find them on the bottom of the page. They are not the most technical drawings, and they are not pretty, but it should give a good idea of how it’s all hooked up. There’s…
This wasn’t really supposed to be a range testing day, but it ended up that way. The shop and my job are both pretty close, and between the two and my house there is one very big hill. It even takes a little bit out of my Jetta when I…
The bulk of the work is now done on the car. I can’t wait to have my weekends back to myself! Saturday morning I went up to the shop to work on the heater. I had everything installed and hooked up but it wasn’t making any heat. I suspected it…
