Re: [EVDL] Charging port locations

2024-08-07 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
I have driven a few EVs over the years. Homebuilts, conversions, C-Cars, EVA Metro, Leaf, etc. But my favourite location for the charging port is still beside the driver's door. Like my son's Ford Focus EV. Yes, most modern EVs won't let you drive away with the vehicle plugged in. However

[EVDL] Old C-Car for sale in southern Ontario

2023-01-11 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
If you are looking for an EV project and have a solid sense of curiosity, this might be of interest. It's not for everyone, I have worked on a couple C-Cars over the years. I am posting this on behalf of an acquaintance of mine, who was one owner of it years ago, and had it in working conditi

Re: [EVDL] 1000 x solar break through. (was EV Digest, Vol 116, Issue 13)

2022-06-28 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
The paper refers to a 10^3 (1000) times improvement in efficiency of a very specific process in the photovoltaic effect. IMO, that won't translate into 1000 times improvement at the cell or panel level as there's a lot more going on to turn received photons into usable electricity. Darryl O

Re: [EVDL] EV1

2021-04-13 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Hi Nathan, emerging briefly from Digest / lurk mode. Nobody ever owned an EV1. GM only leased them, which is why they could legally scoop them up and destroy them. That said, there might be a few people still who leased one. It's something like 25 years ago now. I know a few a few EVDL me

[EVDL] 1975 Zagato Elcar 2000 - anyone still have one?

2020-12-04 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
I have been moving a lot of stuff around the past few months - mostly for other people - but I have unearthed a control column cover and power switching tower for an Elcar. I think I also still have a set of 'pink prints' of the vehicle electric schematics around here somewhere - notations in

Re: [EVDL] li ion battery in cold weather

2019-09-11 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
To echo Lee's experience. Back in the olden days (early 1980s), I put 1" and 1.5" slabs of extruded polystyrene board around the lead-acid battery packs and on top. 60-watt battery warmers underneath. Remote sensing thermometers in the packs with read-outs on the dash. The foam board also r

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 81, Issue 29

2019-07-21 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
We had good results with the Bridgestone Ecopia tires on our 2012 Leaf to replace the original all-seasons (we have a set of winter tires as well which each do about half the year). Kilometres per kWh increased from 6.6 to 7.2 after the installation. Regarding going to narrower tires, with th

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: 1998 Nissan Altra EV &Why You've Never Heard of It

2019-04-13 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Back in the late 90s when the Canadian government had a nascent strategy around EVs as a way to bring economic growth and address pollution issues and reduce GHG emissions, I had the opportunity to test drive the Nissan Altra and the Hypermini. The referenced article takes too much of the prog

Re: [EVDL] MP.uk Norman requires noisy-EVs> silent-EV made horse go-bananas

2019-03-16 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Disclosure: I know little about horses. When I was quite young, one chore I had on occasion was grooming my grandfather's cranky Percheron stallion. I'm pretty sure he tried to kill me a couple of times. That likely colours my perceptions. In my readings of early car-horse interactions, ho

Re: [EVDL] Oil &utilities buying up EVSE.net charging> fossil buy-in

2019-02-17 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Pardon my cynicism, but what if the oil industry's interest in EV charging stations is not simply a relatively benign profit motive? If an industry which sees its primary source of profits being threatened by EVs takes control of a significant part of the charging infrastructure, what is to st

Re: [EVDL] EVDL, EVLN, EVangel Posts

2019-01-26 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
As a long-time member of this list, I want to express my thanks to Bruce for all the effort he puts into gleaning information from multiple sources and providing it here in concentrated form. Having driven EVs since 1978, there is an expectation that I can somehow be on top of all the world's

Re: [EVDL] OT: Keeping hydrogen for transportation ?cleaner?

2018-12-28 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Hello Mark and all, as expected, I'm tardy with a response, and I see the discussion has moved on, and as already noted, shows why hydrogen is typically OT for this list. I'm not prepared to debate the merits of hydrogen as a fuel or energy store here. I had those debates from the late 1990

Re: [EVDL] OT: Keeping hydrogen for transportation ?cleaner?

2018-12-26 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
We don't have to guess at the California electricity mix. https://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_system_power.html (rounding to nearest percent for simplicity) 29% from renewables other than large hydro 15% from large hydro 9% from nuclear (not renewable, but reasonably low

[EVDL] The Autoettes of Long Beach: electric cars before they were cool • Long Beach Post

2018-12-04 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
https://lbpost.com/life/autoette-electric-cart-long-beach-history/ As we discuss the relative merits of Tesla Model 3s vs. Kias with 64 kWh packs, it's nice to see some reference to the EVs which never actually died out, with a welcome dash of humour. Photo and video in the online article. I

[EVDL] UT students seek parts for 40-year-old car | Local News | qctimes.com

2018-11-14 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
https://qctimes.com/news/local/ut-students-seek-parts-for--year-old-car/article_6d2b0aca-52e9-5df3-8b86-8d19f42efd1a.html [As something of an EV historian, having worked on a couple of CitiCars and once upon a time having spoken and corresponded with Bob Beaumont, it came as a surprise to me to

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: That 70's nEV> Elcar.it in response2 OPEC oil, crisis r:55mi

2018-08-07 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
The Elcar 1000 was a hoot to drive. We definitely managed 40 mph. Cornered like a bottom-weighted kid's inflatable punching clown. I think the center of gravity on the Elcar was about 9 inches off the ground. Barely wider than the big motorcycles of the time with the high handlebars. My 201

Re: [EVDL] Good News: EVs Are Not Crashing the Grid

2018-01-03 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Hi Dan, I'm 'down the road' in Ontario, but with NS roots (Annapolis Valley and Pictou County). I've met David Swan a couple of times, and corresponded with Jeff Dahn. I enjoyed your SnowPig video (and I hope to pick up more front lift motors on Friday to put my Elec-Trak snow team back into

Re: [EVDL] Aurenthetic for free in,> Berkeley

2017-04-15 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Pity it's in CA, the shipping to the Great White North(east) would be a killer. My lovely retro-orange and white Auranthetic was stolen out of my driveway a few years ago. While I did not get to use it often, I thought it was blast to ride. (Not daily driver material where we can have snow

[EVDL] Ontario EVSE News

2016-04-28 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Announced today: Over the coming year, about 200 Level 3 and 300 Level 2 charging stations will be installed across Ontario at over 250 locations. http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/electric/electric-vehicle-chargers-ontario.shtml Through the $20 million Electric Vehicle Chargers Ontar

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Unbalanced Bolt EV sales-demographics in Canada (EV Digest, Vol 41, Issue 4)

2016-03-03 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
ng to speak for EVs under the previous regime. -- Darryl McMahon Freelance Project Manager On 3/3/2016 9:46 AM, Paul Wujek wrote: On 2016-03-03 08:16 AM, Darryl McMahon via EV wrote: Now, if Ontario can find an automaker to start building EVs in Ontario using all the plant capacity idled by th

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Unbalanced Bolt EV sales-demographics in Canada (EV Digest, Vol 41, Issue 4)

2016-03-03 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
There are a few factors which contribute to the enhanced incentive making sense in Ontario. (Unlike the U.S., there is no federal incentive for EV purchase in Canada.) Ontario (and more recently the new Canadian federal government) have embraced climate change mitigation - notably signalling

Re: [EVDL] EV pioneers

2015-10-05 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
ectric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EV pioneers Message-ID:<5611debb.9382.a15cc...@evpost.drmm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 4 Oct 2015 at 21:40, Darryl McMahon via EV wrote: >In the past, I have rescued some EV-related website material which was >

Re: [EVDL] EV pioneers

2015-10-04 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
I hesitate to raise my hand here as I am currently crazy busy on too many fronts. In the past, I have rescued some EV-related website material which was in danger of being lost, and have gathered it into my EV History pages on the econogics.com website. E.g., http://www.econogics.com/ev/Dale

Re: [EVDL] EVent: EV ride-n-drives @EcoDistrict EV Day

2015-08-13 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
Just home from this EVent with our 2012 Leaf. I was at the far end of the static display area, pretty much as last year. I continue to be astonished by the number of walk-by traffic who are not aware that pure electric vehicles exist, or are available for purchase at dealers. My most frequen

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 30, Issue 41

2015-04-27 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
George, you might also be interested in the Electric Boat discussion group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electricboats/ (Yahoo! ID required) Darryl McMahon (owner of small solar electric boat) On 27/04/2015 5:20 AM, via EV wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:06:04 -0400 From: Geor

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Canadians get big EV tax incentives & Evatran, > wireless EVSE (EV Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5)

2014-07-06 Thread Darryl McMahon via EV
No need to get too excited by EV uptake in Canada just yet. There is no federal incentive. Period. The British Columbia provincial incentive as allowed to expire in February of this year. I think that leaves only 2 provinces (Ontario and Quebec) with incentive programs. These programs are a