Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Tesla cuts 3 major departments

Yeah, I saw it. I have never been a fan of Sandy and that video pretty much cemented my low opinion of him. There has never been a larger Musk fanboy than Sandy. I suppose I ought not argue as opinions about him are just that. Overall Sandy and his company have done a lot of interesting things but

Re: [EVDL] NYT: Nikola founder sentenced

The moral of this story is to get good and rich before your lies catch up to you. Just ask Elon. Nothing he says is ever even remotely the truth and he's got a habit of vastly inflating his company's value with extravagant, false claims. Still walks around a free man? Why? Money talks and BS

Re: [EVDL] Bolt “propulsion power reduced” after 80% update

It sure does sound as if the car detected something wrong with the battery. It's my understanding that they did the 80% update instead of replacing packs so that they could see which packs were actually bad and which ones were not. If your pack isn't bad then it lets you go back to 100% and life

Re: [EVDL] (EVDL)EV charging is changing

10wh/mi is extremely dubious. It'd be great if that were physically possible at realistic speeds but it just isn't. But, my biggest problem with things like the Aptera is really safety. All other things being equal, safety in a crash comes down to energy transfer. And, energy is a function of

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: "The end of the internal combustion engine" via China

I have a Bolt EUV and like it. I was somewhat disappointed to see that they're discontinuing the entire Bolt line at the end of this year. However, I wouldn't count GM out just yet. They're transitioning to their Ultium platform instead of continuing to build old-tech Bolts. I like my Bolt but it

Re: [EVDL] Leaf battery replacement ?

quot; battery > performs better in cold weather than the original battery. I presume > both are 24kWh batteries. Do you have warm weather range numbers to > compare to ? > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > ------ O

Re: [EVDL] Leaf battery replacement ?

Indeed. I've got a 2012 Leaf and a 2013 Leaf. Neither shows much battery degradation but the 2012 gets about 30-40 miles range in Winter and the 2013 about 40-45 miles range. On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 6:16 PM Ken Olum via EV wrote: > Here is a data point about Leaf batteries at cold temperatures.

Re: [EVDL] no more "iced" chargers ?

I'm not that optimistic about that. The problem with a charging robot is that it'd have to have a battery around the size of the largest EV battery to really be effective. A robot with a 100kwh battery will be the size of Optimus Prime. Then it needs to charge itself afterward. It really seems

Re: [EVDL] Why people dislike Tesla

It also should be noted that Tesla increasingly has competition. It may be true that something like a Chevy Bolt is not quite the car a Model S is but it does have a radio (satellite radio even), potentially bose sound, and it drives basically just as far as a Model S does. Tesla has long had a

Re: [EVDL] Tesla’s Sneaky Rolling Stops

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:11 PM Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > I don't have first hand experience using Tesla's autopilot. Assuming you > are paying attention, then what is it like when autopilot fails and you > have to take control ? If you are paying attention, it seems to me that > it might take

Re: [EVDL] Why not an open source EV?

That does lead to another potential idea, though. What if an open source design specifically called for OEM parts that *ARE* easily available and cheap? This isn't so far-fetched or weird. Tesla uses Mercedes steering systems and a Ford accelerator pedal. They probably use other parts from

Re: [EVDL] Tesla's Self Driving Feature

> > I know, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but I see a lot of comments > > online from thoughtful, reasonable people who'd like to own EVs, but aren't > > at all keen on handing their money to Musk. > > > > My wife refuses to test drive a Tesla because she hates Elon's "TechBro" >

Re: [EVDL] Tesla releases service manuals, diagnostic tools, more for free - Electrek

The story is in error. Tesla didn't actually do that on purpose and nearly immediately pulled the plug once green told everyone about it. On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:27 AM Mark Hanson via EV wrote: > > Looks like Tesla is being forced into releasing service info from a law > passed in

Re: [EVDL] battery heaters

It heavily depends on the electrolyte / cell chemistry. I have batteries from a Think City (made by EnerDel) and they are spec'd to operate down to an extremely low temperature of -20C. That's -4F. I don't think I'd charge them very hard at 0F but it seems that's in the temperature range to be

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] EVgo Prohibition of Home-Built Electric Vehicles, Modified Vehicles, and Modified Chargers

Yeah, believe me, some of us have built DiY systems that support CHAdeMO. CCS is a bit (well a lot) harder because of the architecture so there probably aren't any homebrew CCS. But, it is possible to repurpose hardware from OEM vehicles and I think people have started to experiment with using the

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] V2G already in Tesla 3. Scedamic.

They don't include the proper hardware yet, the original story was wrong. They have diodes in there that would preclude current from flowing the other way. On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:33 PM Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > > > https://youtu.be/UQx30FRw1GA On Friday, May 22, 2020, 10:32:59 AM

Re: [EVDL] leaf no level 3 port 2011

A lot. The L3 system is CHAdeMO. You need the inlet plug, the high current wiring, probably the plastic shroud it all goes in, and the charger it connects to. You can probably grab all of that out of a wrecked vehicle (hopefully a rear end or side collision) but I still don't know how much the car

Re: [EVDL] buying used Leaf BMS

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:55 AM evtlfp20 via EV wrote: > the eugene auction site shows some leafs with bumper off, but but no > heavy damage i can see . are bumpers hard to find or really expensive? My wife... ah... tested this out by backing into a trailer with a 2013 Leaf. The bumper panels

Re: [EVDL] Orion BMS site

That site loads for me. So, you might try again. The site, at least, is up and functioning. I have not heard of any troubles with the company itself either. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:42 AM Jukka Järvinen via EV wrote: > > Hi all. > > What's going on with the orionbms.com site? I could not access

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Supercap, ultracap, Goldcap> take the plunge

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:00 PM Paul Compton via EV wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 04:40, Jan Steinman via EV wrote: > > > Supercaps are currently 1-10 farads or so. A farad can supply an amp for a > > second. > > I think you might be a little out of touch on Supercaps. > > I've had a sample

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Toyota dealers say there is no sale$ demand.us forEVs

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 7:43 PM Lee Hart via EV wrote: > > If fast charging is so vital, how come the market isn't flooded with > fast chargers for cellphones, laptops, power tools, and all our other > battery-operated toys? ?!?!?!?! Umm IT IS. The market most certainly is packed full with

Re: [EVDL] poor 2011 Leaf performance

I have two leafs here - 2012 and 2013. The 2012 is lucky to get 40 miles of range in the winter. In the summer it's closer to 50 miles. The 2013 can drive somewhere in the range of about 40-45 miles in Winter and 60-70 miles in Summer. I wouldn't consider any of that to be great but that's how it

Re: [EVDL] Azure DMOC445 Programming

at you are looking for? > > https://www.aeva.asn.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4406 > > Cheers! > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:07:03 -0700 Collin Kidder via EV > wrote > > If I'm remembering correctly they did lock the chip so you can't just > read out the firmw

Re: [EVDL] Azure DMOC445 Programming

If I'm remembering correctly they did lock the chip so you can't just read out the firmware from a working unit. If you could I would, I do have one. But, if someone happens to have firmware in an email then I can flash that firmware onto a board. I just don't have any DMOC445 firmware files to

Re: [EVDL] Azure DMOC445 Programming

The new one almost certainly had only the test firmware on it - that's how they came new. You have to use the Azure tools to flash the proper firmware onto it. Yes, this is not going to be pleasant. Unfortunately, while I know how to flash DMOCs, I don't believe that I've got DMOC445 firmware to

Re: [EVDL] DC charging handshake?

DC fast charging is a mess. You have: 1. CHAdeMO. It's currently maxed out at 500v and 125A so 62.5KW but nobody really can reach that peak. Most battery packs top out at 400v or so and thus you'd get 400 * 120 = 48KW peak. But, there is a new CHAdeMO standard that will support up to 400KW. This

Re: [EVDL] DC charging handshake?

Well, you weren't specific but you might have meant CHAdeMO DC fast charging. I'm going to assume such and if that wasn't the case you'll have to be more specific. If you need to produce the car side CHAdeMO comm then you'll need a way to connect to a CAN bus and you will need two inputs and two

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: 30% Range Boost from EV-specific FPCU Controller chip

Exactly. A modern EV drive train could be 85-90% efficient from battery to the road. To improve range by 30% you'd have to get more than 100% efficiency. There just isn't room for that level of improvement in the electronics. Now, maybe you could add 30% by reworking the body to be more

Re: [EVDL] Employees protest mass firings @Fremont-CA Tesla factory

The underlying subtext here seems to be that the UAW would really love to unionize the Tesla Fremont plant and they believe they've found their opening. Firing a few hundred people out of 10,000 is not a significant percentage but talking about it the right way can rile people up. Seems like much

Re: [EVDL] Hacking a supercharger. Have a charge on Elon.

Can it be done in reverse? Almost certainly it can. The super charger talks over single wire CAN to the car. People have done some captures. To the best of my knowledge nobody has tried to charge on a super charger with an unauthorized device. Doing so is likely to be seen as theft (of

Re: [EVDL] Electric conversion using TM4 traction motor, inverter and VMU

> I am writing you to ask for advice with the following: > Can you suggest a supervisory control systems (VMU) that are easy to to > program that we can use with this system? GEVCU -> http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=gevcu6 I'm not promising it the cheapest thing ever but the software

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

: > Sounds like that byte is the battery capacity in 0.5Ah since when new it > is reported as 66 Ah which would be 132 or 84h and slowly degrading from > there. > Cor > > > On Jan 27, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Tom Parker via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > > >> On 2

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

08 383 7626Skype: cor_van_de_water >>XoIP +31 87 784 1130private: cvandewater.info >> >>http://www.proxim.com >> >>This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential >>and >>proprietary information of

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

I have a capture from (I think it was the 2013 Leaf but I have a 2012 as well) and the capture is both buses at the same time. The "normal" can bus is a lot noisier than the EV bus. It also starts up first and has a lot of traffic before the EV bus even starts. I need to do some more filtering to

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

10 minutes should have been enough. Chris suggested shorting the positive and negative together to drain any capacitance and force the ECUs to reset but I cannot imagine an ECU lasting 10 minutes on its input capacitors. Though, I think that the leaf actually has a super capacitor behind the rear

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Tom Parker via EV wrote: > Is anyone trying to reverse engineer the handshake between the Leaf BMS and > the rest of the car? I haven't yet. I haven't had any need to swap batteries in a Leaf. Instead I've added some to the existing pack but

Re: [EVDL] Using the LEAF drivetrain in a conversion

To my knowledge, no one has seriously attempted this yet. There are links in this thread to the people who are trying to do it with the ECU, LBC, etc from a Leaf (basically the whole drive and battery system). But, like you, I'd really rather not have to do this. However, I have a 2012 driving

Re: [EVDL] Recent Model EV Conversion - CAN and accesories to work..

I'm pretty well versed in this sort of thing. Yes, it is possible to use a capture tool and then do various things and try to find them in the log. Then you try to replay the CAN traffic back to the car and see if it accepts it. Quite often not as much is locked down with security codes as you

Re: [EVDL] Sequence of Events contactors

I've found that the largest issue when the resistor fries is that it deposits carbon dust all over the place. The BMS in those packs is *very* picky about leakage currents and will fault with an isolation fault if you sneeze near the exposed board. When the resistor fries it soots up the board,

Re: [EVDL] Fwd: Cell monitoring on Chevy Spark EV

One word of caution though: Some of the cheap OBDII bluetooth dongles (knockoffs) might not support CAN bus properly. It pays to get the same dongle as someone you know. Then they can suggest exact versions that work. Otherwise it might be hit or miss. Though, I've had decent luck just picking at

Re: [EVDL] OT Samsung Galaxy Note 7 li-ion batteries blowing up (?fiction/facts/opinions?)

The risk seems vastly overblown to me. Unfortunately, lithium batteries catch fire sometimes. One can do a google search for iphone fire and find examples there too. The problem is that we all want as much battery life as possible. This leads to using battery chemistries that are more energy

Re: [EVDL] Michigan Denies Tesla Dealership license

I wonder that as well. I'm sure that they're trying to be ideologically pure but sometimes you have to be willing to play the game. They could easily find people to run dealerships who will be cooperative. To some extent the dealerships could be just a formality. And, anyway, it doesn't hurt to

Re: [EVDL] Follow-up: Brown's fatal Tesla autopilot crash

I must admit, I drive differently with an ICE than an EV. In my ICE cars I'll go 8-10MPH over the speed limit and try to push the limits. In EVs I'm much more conservative and try to go the speed limit. I wonder if this is common? My reasoning is that ICE vehicles tend to have a lot of waste in

Re: [EVDL] Fwd: EVLN: GM's 1st 200mi EV will launch as a driverless (autonomous) Lyft platform

I agree, people can be dangerous. If we could figure out the software I think self driving cars could be really safe. And, they'd be faster too because the road could be run with very little gap between cars so long as all of the cars are communicating and the cars are self driving. But, being a

Re: [EVDL] Ground Faults

Yes, I've had this same trouble with LiFePO4 cells (Thundersky). I believe that the cases might be ever so slightly conductive. Also, the car was in a somewhat salty environment by the ocean and sea mist and dirt caused a build up of conductive material over the top of everything. So, I cleaned

Re: [EVDL] Using the L3 port to charge your EV at 10kW off a 50A dryer outlet

Most certainly. CHAdeMO is negotiated over CAN so you need a microprocessor to handle the two way communication. Also, it is required to have contactors and the charger will check to ensure that they open and close properly. So, it is a little bit involved. Also, the charge cord for CHAdeMO is

Re: [EVDL] Charging and the CAN Bus

Yes, there are two CAN buses on the OBDII port. Here's a link to a discussion about this: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?t=4131 On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Ed Blackmond via EV wrote: > Can you use the ODB-II port for this? > > Ed > > > > > This message was

Re: [EVDL] hunting

I am still around and I've contacted Lejuan directly. Thanks. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > Lejuan, > > is contact info is on his website: > http://www.kk-ev.com/ > also there are some pages about his projects >

Re: [EVDL] Possible Conversion Candidate

I'm not aware of any OEM system that uses DC motors so I suspect that your 10kw motor is really a permanent magnet synchronous AC motor. It's generally never a good idea to try to drive more than one motor with one controller - even more so if they are PMAC or PMDC since such motors are very

Re: [EVDL] Leaf donor car? Re: Books on converting a car to ev?

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:55 AM, via EV wrote: > > BTW, I would just buy a used Tesla but I read they are worse than GM about > who "owns" their cars. I'm afraid they wouldn't reactivate the drivetrain > after I did the swap. They did that to a guy that rebuilt a wrecked

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Fed-Regs allow regen to turn brake lights on

You're telling me it doesn't?!?! On conversion projects I've done I always make sure that regen lights up the brake lights. It's just common sense. I have Think City cars and they don't enable the brake light on regen. This has caused people to attempt to give the car a free rectal exam with

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Fed-Regs allow regen to turn brake lights on

for D or D/eco regen. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Ed Blackmond via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Collin Kidder via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >> >> I can't believe a big company like Nissan wouldn't have thought

Re: [EVDL] HOW GM BEATS TESLA TO THE Every Man's Electric Car

I agree. In addition, corporations, like people, go through phases. I'm sure many people would not want to be judged by how they were 20 or 30 years ago. You changed, you're a different person now than you were then. Corporations also get new leaders every so often and their direction can change.

Re: [EVDL] Level 3 Charging for conversions?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:41 AM, John Lussmyer via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: On Wed Jul 08 06:33:52 PDT 2015 ev@lists.evdl.org said: http://emotorwerks.com/products/online-store/product/show/97-new-chademo-tm-compatible-charge-controller-for-emotorwerks-dc-chargers That was weird. The forum

Re: [EVDL] $10k bounty on Tesla-S hacks entices tinkerers, aggravates Tesla

Yes, the article that had a blurb on the original post was about an app that uses the existing API. Tesla has no problem with that. There was also a link to a story about the $10k hacking contest. This is totally different. The goal of that contest is to gain unauthorized access to a Tesla you

Re: [EVDL] EValert: !Don't buy a salvaged Tesla EV to repair drive! (video)

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Lawrence Harris via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: I am afraid I side with Tesla on this. As much as I like to be able to tinker with 'my stuff' here we have a very complex system with many sensors and actuators that are all controlled by the onboard computer

Re: [EVDL] EValert: !Don't buy a salvaged Tesla EV to repair drive! (video)

and enjoy your OWNERSHIP as a yard ornament. Bob On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Collin Kidder via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Lawrence Harris via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: I am afraid I side with Tesla on this. As much as I like to be able to tinker

Re: [EVDL] EValert: !Don't buy a salvaged Tesla EV to repair drive! (video)

I think that, by this point, we all agree on that point: the buyer did not receive what he thought he had received. I believe that the company that sold the salvage car likely did not realize the true situation either. I would think that the sell would fall into questionable legality given the

Re: [EVDL] EValert: !Don't buy a salvaged Tesla EV to repair drive! (video)

It is very common. People buy cars with a salvage title and fix them. Then they have the car inspected. I believe that the local PD does it in Michigan. You call the police and have them come out. They make sure that it has the things it is supposed to (tail lights, turn signals, etc) and that you

Re: [EVDL] HPEVS selling in Russia, tacky.

Personally I would hope to keep politics out of it. But, how would not selling to a Russian EV dealer hurt Putin exactly? This seems to be a deeply personal decision that every business owner should make for their own company. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Cruisin via EV ev@lists.evdl.org

Re: [EVDL] Hybrid Mustang: Motor control

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ben Goren b...@trumpetpower.com wrote: On Jul 24, 2014, at 5:41 AM, Collin Kidder coll...@kkmfg.com wrote: We've mostly been focused on trying to support the higher end OEM controllers we've been getting out of bankrupt companies and salvage. Then...can

Re: [EVDL] Hybrid Mustang: Motor control

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Ben Goren via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: On Jul 23, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Collin Kidder coll...@kkmfg.com wrote: You might keep in mind the GEVCU project which can be purchased from EVTV Ooooh...I like! Currently it works with DMOC645, Brusa, and Coda

Re: [EVDL] Hybrid Mustang: Motor control

You might keep in mind the GEVCU project which can be purchased from EVTV ( http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=gevcucat=23) It is open source and has enough I/O to do what you want. Of course, what you want is rather custom so some coding would have to be done. But, the nasty low-level stuff