Other journal entries and media that do not fit into one of the other specific categories.
Showed the Electric Saturn at it’s first car show today. Good interest, lots of questions. Won a trophy for weirdest car. Just kidding, everyone got a trophy. Show was for the local emergency rescue, good cause. Some of questions were how fast, answer have got her up to 80 mph; how far? 37 miles is…
After driving a full electric powered vehicle for only 6 months and 4000 miles I am still acquiring knowledge. But some things I have learned. Reliable… No breakdowns except for in December when the charger quit and lost ability to drive vehicle for over a week. I now have 2 chargers see http://saturn.lynnautorepair.com/node/332 and http://saturn.lynnautorepair.com/node/235…
As I drive every day in this 100% electric vehicle I ponder questions bigger then me and my grasp of the world. It don’t take much to overload my circuits. What about the future of the automobile in the western world? How much are Americans ready to give up, to save energy? How will we…
Here I video the Saturn accelerating from a stop, shifting through the gears observing the 4 gauges, from the left are the voltmeter, speedometer, tachometer and amp meter. My wife videoed this after church with me driving. The battery pack had been driven about 9 miles since the last charge. I am not trying to…
It is cold you know, especially you Yankees and Canadians know, so I bought one of the oil filled heaters. I plug it in at night, in the back floorboard, turn it on low. When I get up in the morning the insides of the Saturn are nice and warm and stay that way until…
It has been cold like it always does this time of year but more so it seems ( especially with the economy and all). I drive the SS Saturn everyday to work and on weekends. Five degrees f in the morning has not stopped her. Snow, slush and rain either. Maybe lots of snow might…
I Borrowed The Dirt Track Scales from Richard Holmes, one of my mechanics. These are the same scales I weighed the Saturn before the conversion. See Measure Ride Height and Vehicle Weight . I had planned and even told people The Similarly Stimulated Saturn probably weights about 3000 pounds. I was wrong. The scales showed…
I gathered some input about this ‘factory tachometer’ issue today. From last weekend’s journal entry, email response, searching on the internet and a couple of phone conversations I have some info to add. I was able to access another Saturn with factory ICE and get reference tach signals. Dave Koller, who is working on a…
I have already done a page — or two on building the battery boxes but this entry is about testing an electric vehicle battery box to make sure there is air flow when charging and make sure no hydrogen is entering the passenger compartment. In the SS Saturn there are 4 battery boxes. Two in…
It has been an interesting year. Gas prices soaring then falling, housing bubble, the bailout fiasco, hydrogen generators installed on vehicles making HHO from water by electrolysis, elections, recession and the return and coming out of the electric car. I thing about history from the 1890’s to the 1910’s when the electric car looked like…