The 1970s Otis P-500 electric van carried an Eberspächer gasoline heater similar to the ones used in the VW Bus.
--Glen Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 27, 2014, at 23:36, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > There used to be a fuel heater option available in the 50's and 60's > buses. A source of burned down buses. This is all very vague in memory. > I worked on VW's in the 80's and never actually had one cross my path, but > I feel like I can almost picture it in the engine bay. > > Be careful. > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jan Steinman via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Perhaps this is a sacrilege on this list, but I'm planning to provide >> cabin heat in my 1981 Electranagon with... diesel fuel! >> >> I got hold of an old Webasto hydronic heater. You can find them used among >> boat people, bulletin boards at marinas, etc. They sip a tiny bit of diesel >> fuel, and turn it into fairly large quantities of hot water, which I plan >> to run through my Vanagon's heater core. >> >> Electricity is (as HT Odum would put it) a "high transformity fuel," >> meaning it is highly refined and contains a lot of embedded energy. Why >> waste it heating up resistors? A 3kW electric heater running for an hour >> uses up over ten percent of a typical EV battery, whereas one tank of >> diesel will last me all winter. >> >> Anyway, just a thought... >> >> Jan >> >>> From: Al via EV <[email protected]> >>> >>> It's that time of year, time to get the heater installed in my EV. >> >> :::: When money becomes the deciding factor in food marketing, some very >> bad things can happen. I keep thinking about how during the famine in >> Ireland, the country’s grain was sold in the higher English commodity >> markets to pay rents to absentee landlords while the Irish people starved. >> Now that’s what I call real price discovery. -- Gene Logsdon >> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > -- > Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain > happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? > *Dalai Lama * > > Tell me what it is you plan to do > With your one wild and precious life? > Mary Oliver, "The summer day." > > To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. > Thomas A. Edison > <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> > > A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. > *Warren Buffet* > > Michael E. Ross > (919) 550-2430 Land > (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone > (919) 631-1451 Cell > (919) 513-0418 Desk > > [email protected] > <[email protected]> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141028/42839b0a/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
