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January 2010
The Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association (LVEVA) will meet on the third Saturday of each month during 2010. Meetings will be held at the Clark County Library on 1401 E. Flamingo Road from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. Members will be displaying their own electric cars and answering questions before and after each meeting.
Happy New Year!
Calendar
2010
January 5 - 6 Nissan Leaf Electric Car Tour Visits Las Vegas
January 9 EV Conversion Workshop
January 16 Monthly Meeting
February 13 EV Conversion Workshop
February 20 Monthly Meeting
March 13 EV Conversion Workshop
March 20 Monthly Meeting
April 17 Monthly Meeting
April 22 Earth Day Exhibit
May 15 Monthly Meeting
June 19 Monthly Meeting
Contents:
-- LVEVA Educational EV Conversion Workshop Updates
-- LVEVA Participates in Santa’s Electric Night Parade in Boulder City
-- Nissan Leaf Tour to Visit Las Vegas on January 5 - 6, 2010
-- China Passes U.S. As Largest Automobile Market During 2009
-- SAE to Ratify More Proposed Electric Automobile Standards in January 2010
-- Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Targets New Batteries
-- LVEVA Board of Directors Elected for Three-Year Terms
-- LVEVA DVD Reference Library
-- EV Repairs and Service
-- EV Conversion and Fabrication Support
-- EVs and EV Parts for Sale
-- Publication Credits and Contact Information
LVEVA Educational EV Conversion Workshop Updates
(Photos by Lou Baker)
LVEVA Board of Directors members Bill Kuehl and Jon Hallquist are leading an EV Conversion Workshop that will be held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, from 8 AM to noon. All LVEVA members are invited to participate in this conversion project.
During 2008, Bill Kuehl received a donation of a 1986 Pontiac Fiero for use by the LVEVA in a conversion project. Jon Hallquist, manager of GrassrootsEV.com in Las Vegas, had arranged the acquisition of a Netgain Warp electric motor and also donated a Curtis motor speed controller, throttle potentiometer box, contactor and other EV parts to the effort.
During the monthly chapter meeting on June 20, 2009 several LVEVA members offered to volunteer their time for the conversion project as part of a Special Interest Group (SIG). It was agreed that this group would meet on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, from 8 AM to noon, to put together the EV conversion. Highlights of Sessions 1 through 3 were shown in the LVEVA August 2009 “Watts Happening” newsletter. Highlights of Sessions 4 and 5 were shown in the September 2009 “Watts Happening” newsletter. Highlights of Sessions 6 and 7 were featured in the October 2009 “Watts Happening” newsletter. Session 8 was chronicled in the the November 2009 “Watts Happening” newsletter and Session 9 was presented in the December 2009 newsletter. Once the Electric Fiero conversion is completed, all the sessions will be consolidated onto a web page at the LVEVA web site.
EV Conversion Workshop Session 10
Attendees: Bill Kuehl, Jon Hallquist, Lou Baker, and Lloyd Reece
During this session, continuing work was done to make the 1986 Pontiac Fiero electric car more roadworthy and safe. Bill Kuehl also performed additional work to the vehicle between sessions.
When checking out the Fiero installation, the team found that the front hood of the Pontiac Fiero did not quite close over the top of the new lead-acid batteries that were installed because of some plastic ribbing underneath it. The team ground off about an inch of the ribbing material so that the front hood would close over the top of the battery pack.
The Kilovac contactor that had fused during initial startup the previous session was replaced and a second Kilovac contactor was added, one on both the positive and negative cables of the battery pack going to the motor speed controller in order to provide failsafe protection. One side of the coils on each contactor were connected to the front panel key ignition switch for low power activation and deactivation of the electric battery drive system. Fuses were also added inline with both the positive and negative cables of the battery pack to the motor speed controller for added safety.
The 1986 Pontiac Fiero has foldaway headlights that pop up mechanically when the lights are turned on. The electromechanical subassembly for one of the headlights was only opening and closing halfway, so the team replaced it with one of the subassemblies that Bill Kuehl had available from a 1985 Pontiac Fiero. Both headlights, turn lights, brake lights and windshield wipers were then tested and found to be working.
To make the brake system more reliable and easy to use without the benefit of the gasoline engine hydraulics, Bill provided an electric vacuum pump that he mounted to the rear chassis of the Fiero in the tunnel area near the site of the original gas tank. The electric vacuum pump will automatically turn on to regulate the pressure of the hydraulic fluid in the brake lines, providing instant response to the brakes when the driver’s foot touches the brake pedal.
The electric vacuum pump derives its power from a 12-volt auxiliary battery that also provides power to the headlights, turn signals, brake lights, headlight lifting mechanism, windshield wipers, and other electrical accessories. The 12-volt auxiliary battery is recharged with its own separate 12-volt recharging system. The 120-volt traction battery pack is recharged from its own charging system.
With the brakes and safety systems in place, the team decided to take the Pontiac Fiero on some backroads for the first test drives outside the workshop staging area. With Bill Kuehl driving and another workshop attendee as a passenger, the team took three successive test drives with the electric Pontiac Fiero. They tested the electric motor’s range in first gear and then shifted to second gear, reaching legal street speeds from 30 to 35 mph for the initial tests. Bill estimated that the Warp electric DC motor is rated at 6,500 rpm and should be able to reach about 60 mph in second gear while rotating at about 6,000 rpm. Third gear should add even more potential speed up to about 80 mph.
During the test runs, the team found that the speedometer was not operating, even though the speedometer cable had been respliced back to the same color wires in the harness and connected to the transmission. Further work will need to be done to trace out the two wires from the dashboard to make sure there is continuity back to the transmission sensor.
Bill Kuehl estimated the range of the Fiero should be about 40 to 60 miles between battery pack recharges depending on ambient air temperature and driving conditions. The 120-volt battery pack system is made up of 20 six-volt Interstate golf cart batteries. These batteries were used previously for a Volkswagen Vanagon conversion and are in used condition.
Because of this, the battery pack will need to go through several charge/recharge cycles to balance the cells so that all the batteries are dispensing current together as harmoniously as possible. Each battery within the pack can be checked individually with a “load test” instrument to make sure it has the capacity to sustain its normal load requirements. The liquid electrolyte chemistry in each “flooded” battery cell can be checked with a hydrometer to make sure that the specific gravity of each battery pack is within the normal operating range shown by the Interstate Battery Company.
Work to be done during the January 2010 session on January 9th:
1. Troubleshoot the speedometer and cable to get it working
2. Add both voltmeter and amp-meter gauges on the dashboard to monitor battery pack behavior
3. Install battery pack recharging ports for both traction drive battery pack and auxiliary battery.
4. Balance and test batteries in battery pack after several cycles to make sure they are balanced.
5. Continue to road test and troubleshoot any problems found.
6. Have electric Pontiac Fiero inspected and licensed at DMV.
Admission to the EV conversion workshop is free to all LVEVA members.
Annual dues for the Electric Auto Association (EAA), that includes local LVEVA chapter membership, is $39 per year and includes newsletters from both the national organization and local chapter as well as access to all events. Local LVEVA chapter-only membership dues are $20 for adults and $15 for senior citizens. Free LVEVA chapter membership is available to students with valid student I.D. cards.
For more information and directions to the EV conversion workshop, contact
Bill Kuehl at: (702) 636-0304
Lloyd Reece at: (702) 524-3233
Jon Hallquist at GrassrootsEV.com: (702) 277-7544
LVEVA Participates in Santa’s Electric Night Parade in Boulder City
Boulder City staged its annual Santa’s Electric Night Parade on Saturday evening, December 5th, from 4:30 PM to 6 PM.
LVEVA members Pat Aschenbach and his family as well as Bill Kuehl rode their vehicles in the parade – an electric GMC pickup truck conversion and a Toyota Prius gasoline/electric hybrid, respectively.
For the last ten years, LVEVA members have enjoyed decorating their cars with Christmas lights and props during this annual EVent as well as spreading the message about alternative electric transportation options.
Nissan Leaf Tour to Visit Las Vegas on January 5 - 6, 2010
Press Release from: http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/#/news
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (October 22, 2009) - Nissan North America announced that the Nissan LEAF zero-emission, all-electric car will make its North American debut in Los Angeles on Nov. 13. The Los Angeles showing will be the first time people in the United States will be able to see the five-passenger, five-door, gasoline-free car, which is embarking on a nationwide tour.
The Nissan LEAF Zero Emission Tour will make stops in 22 cities within 11 states, the District of Columbia, and Vancouver, Canada -- offering the opportunity for interested drivers, media, civic partners, businesses and university students to learn more about the Nissan LEAF and the benefits of zero-emission driving.
Follow the tour, get updates on the final schedule and specific showings, and sign up for more information, at www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car
Look for the Nissan LEAF to make public appearances in the following areas during these times:
Southern California:
Los Angeles: Nov. 13-17
Orange County: Nov. 18
San Diego: Nov. 19-21
Northern California:
Berkeley/Walnut Creek: Nov. 23-24
San Francisco: Nov. 25-29
Santa Rosa: Dec. 1
Sacramento: Dec. 1
San Jose: Dec. 3-6
Pacific Northwest:
Washington State -- Seattle: Dec. 8-12
Canada -- Vancouver: Dec. 14-15
Oregon -- Portland: Dec. 17-23
Southwest:
Arizona -- Phoenix/Tucson: Dec. 30-Jan. 4
Nevada -- Las Vegas: Jan. 5 - 6
Midwest/East Coast
Michigan -- Detroit: Jan. 11-13
Tennessee -- Knoxville/Chattanooga: Jan. 16
-- Middle Tennessee: Jan. 19-21
Washington, D.C.: Jan. 26-28
North Carolina -- Raleigh: Jan. 29
Florida -- Orlando: Feb. 1-2
Texas -- Houston: Feb. 5-6
New York -- New York City: Feb. 9-14
Nissan is the only automaker committed to making all-electric vehicles available to the mass market on a global scale. Through the Nissan LEAF Zero Emission Tour, Nissan will be showcasing the electric vehicle and battery technology as well as the company's zero-emission mobility objectives. Nissan already has partnered on the development of an electric-vehicle infrastructure through partnerships in the State of Tennessee, the State of Oregon, Sonoma County, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, Washington D.C., Seattle, Raleigh, and Vancouver. Additional partnerships will be announced in the near future.
In North America, Nissan's operations include automotive design, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing. Nissan is dedicated to improving the environment under the Nissan Green Program 2010, whose key priorities are reducing CO2 emissions, cutting other emissions and increasing recycling. More information on the Nissan LEAF and zero emissions can be found at www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car
Local Note: The Nissan Leaf will be exhibited at two locations during its visit to Las Vegas. On January 5th, from 11 AM to 2 PM, the LEAF will be shown to employees and guests of NV Energy on that company’s corporate campus at 6226 West Sahara Blvd.
During the evening of January 5th from 6 PM to 10 PM, the general public is invited to attend a presentation of the LEAF in the Celebrity Car Showroom at the Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip.
The LVEVA is also invited for a special question and answer session from 6 PM to 7 PM with a Nissan LEAF product planning manager and business development manager to talk about the LEAF as well as future plans for electric cars from Nissan-Renault.
The following day, January 6th, the Nissan LEAF will be on display from 9 AM to 10 PM at the Palazzo Celebrity Car Showroom.
China Passes U.S. As Largest Automobile Market During 2009
(Kimberly Taylor blog from Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute)
There's some startling news out of China where the market has overtaken the U.S. in car and light truck purchases. The Associated Press sheds light on the many numbers that make this a big deal. J.D. Power & Associates projected two years ago that 2025, not 2009, would be the year this happened. This year they revised their forecast saying China would sell 9 million vehicles but in fact they sold 12.7 million, an increase of 44% over last year. Not to gloss over the emissions impacts and oil consumption involved, but for the first time in our history, the nation that produced the prodigious vision of Henry Ford, is not number one in vehicle sales.
There are so many things you could say about that ranging from "who cares?" to "what's happening to our competitive edge?" but it's hard not to look at real numbers and ponder the change that is all around us. Froma Harrop does just that suggesting there's no heavier burden than our great potential so buck up and shed the "no can do" blues. Writing for Truthout, Harrop harkens back to 1911 when the U.S. had half a million cars and 23 million horses. Enter Henry Ford who saw opportunity where others saw obstacles. And now enter Denmark, channeling Henry Ford's derring-do of almost one hundred years ago, to become a new energy pioneer but this time with wind. China is selling record numbers of cars and encouraging green innovation while Denmark is paving new renewable pathways. WWHFD? (Oh, "What Would Henry Ford Do?")
SAE to Ratify More Proposed Electric Automobile Standards in January 2010
Rick Merritt
(12/10/2009 5:07 PM EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222001600
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Auto makers hope to ratify in January the first draft of a standard that will link electric vehicles to the smart grid. Over the next year, the group aims to define a suite of five standards including ones describing ways to link electric cars to home networks.
"All the car makers are in our group and similar efforts at the ISO and IEC," said Rich Scholer, chairman of the J2293 task force at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) that is developing the standards.
"People are building electric vehicles and their supply equipment right now so these things need to get sorted out," said Scholer who is also a design engineer for plug-in and fuel cell vehicles at Ford Motor Co.
"The GM Volt and other electric cars are coming out in late 2010," said Jose Salazar, a technical specialist at Southern California Edison who works with the SAE and other standards groups. "We are preparing to handle e-vehicles from [an energy] customer perspective," he said.
Engineers are debating whether the vehicles or their third-party electronic gear should handle smart grid transactions. "The path we are heading down is there is no one right answer," said Salazar.
The SAE group formally started its work in February 2008 and now has as many as 160 members. It will conduct simulation testing and modeling of products based on its specifications when they are completed and then revise the standards based on what they learn from the tests.
As a first step, the group expects to have an initial vote in January on a standard that will define the physical and media access control layers for a network linking electric cars and the smart grid. It will also define use cases and messaging protocols for the network. The link would allow a car to get data about the costs of charging at different times given traffic on the grid.
The spec is based in part on the Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 being developed by a collaboration between the Zigbee Alliance and the HomePlug Alliance.
The efforts are very much a work-in-progress.
"SEP 2.0 has an initial technical requirements document that will be published in a month or two," said Scholer. "We have our initial SAE documents that will reflect some of this plus a lot more info for vehicles and supply equipment," he said. Both of these [documents] will mature in the next year as we both [conduct] simulation/modeling, then build, test and field systems," Scholer added.
The harmonization of existing home network standards for the smart grid has become a huge topic. In a recent meeting, government smart grid planners threatened to force a converged standard for home appliances if the industry can't come up with one.
Indeed, an online presentation about the HomePlug and Zigbee effort lists as many as three dozen home networking standards that could apply to the smart grid. For its part, the SAE standard aims to harmonize the Smart Energy spec with parallel efforts underway at the ISO and IEC. The SAE has laid out plans for four other specs beyond the baseline utility standard it hopes to ratify in January.
By mid 2010, the SAE aims to define standards for DC energy transfer and reverse energy flow systems from a car battery to a home or to the grid. It also aims to specify a set of diagnostics for its powerline technology so it can, for example, provide car owners a gauge of how fast their car is charging.
By the end of the year, the group also hopes to define a set of protocols for linking the electric cars powerline connection to a home network. Such links would let a car synch up its digital music and video content with a home PC or server while it is charging.
Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Targets New Batteries
PRESS RELEASE
Secretary Chu Announces $100 Million for Advanced Research Projects
Washington, District of Columbia, United States December 7, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). At an event today with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Secretary Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create jobs. Today’s announcement comes in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“I am pleased to announce ARPA-E’s second funding opportunity because it demonstrates our commitment to lead the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy technologies, creating thousands of new jobs while helping cut carbon pollution,” said Secretary Chu. “This solicitation focuses on three cutting-edge technology areas which could have a transformational impact.”
ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in funding 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Today’s announcement, which represents the Agency’s second round of funding opportunities, is focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles:
Areas of focus included under today’s funding opportunity include:
1. Electrofuels. ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels - without using petroleum or biomass - by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Many methods of producing advanced and cellulosic biofuels are under development to lessen our dependence on petroleum and lower carbon emissions. Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. The objective of this topic is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low. ARPA-E requests innovative proposals which can overcome these challenges through the utilization of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid transportation fuels. ARPA-E specifically seeks the development of organisms capable of extracting energy from hydrogen, from reduced earth-abundant metal ions, from robust, inexpensive, readily available organic redo active species, or directly from electric current. Theoretically such an approach could be 10 times more efficient than current photosynthetic-biomass approaches to liquid fuel production.
2. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. While coal is a cheap and abundant resource, the continued reliance upon coal as an energy source could potentially have serious consequences in terms of global warming. The objective of this topic is to fund high risk, high reward research efforts that will revolutionize technologies that capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, thereby preventing release into the atmosphere. ARPA-E seeks to complement existing DOE efforts in the field of carbon capture, led by the Office of Fossil Energy and National Energy Technology Laboratory, by accelerating promising ideas from the basic research stage towards large-scale demonstrations and ultimately, commercialization. Areas of interest include: low-cost catalysts to enable systems with superior thermodynamics that are not currently practical due to slow kinetics; robust materials that resist degradation from caustic contaminants in flue gas; and advanced capture processes that dramatically reduce the parasitic energy penalties and corresponding increase in the cost of electricity required for carbon capture.
3. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). The development of high energy, low cost batteries represents the critical barrier to wide-spread deployment of EVs, which if achieved would have a profound impact on U.S. oil security, greenhouse gas emissions, and economic growth. The ambitious goals for this program are largely based upon the aggressive long term EV battery goals set forth by the United States Automotive Battery Consortium, a public-private collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy and leading U.S. automotive companies. If successful, new battery technologies developed under this program will give electrified light-duty vehicles range, performance, lifetime, and cost required to shift transportation energy from oil to the domestically powered U.S. electric grid. ARPA-E's objective is to fund high-risk, high reward research efforts that will promote leadership in this emerging EV battery market.
To submit a concept paper, please view the Funding Opportunity Announcements. Visit ARPA-E for more information and to see previously announced awards.
Source: DOE
LVEVA Board of Directors Elected for Three-Year Terms
During the monthly Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association meeting on Saturday, November 21st, Jan Himber and Richard Furniss were nominated to serve three-year terms as members of the LVEVA Board of Directors.
Each candidate was elected by popular vote to serve their three year terms during the LVEVA monthly meeting on December 19th. As before, only registered and fully paid members of the LVEVA were eligible to vote in the December election. This new Board of Directors met after the December LVEVA monthly meeting to appoint officers and discuss proposed agendas for 2010.
Thank you to all the people who participated in the election process and for your continued support of the Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association.
LVEVA DVD Reference Library
The LVEVA maintains a growing library of DVD reference videos that are available to its members that can be borrowed for one month at a time. Bill Kuehl, LVEVA Secretary/Treasurer is also the LVEVA video librarian. He can be contacted to pick up and return these videos at each monthly chapter meeting. The current list of videos that are available for a one month rental are:
1. “Who Killed the Elecric Car” Documentary
2. Plug in Partners National Campaign (2006)
3. EAA Silicon Valley CalCars PHEV Technology Overview (2005)
4. Boulder City Christmas Parade Highlights (2006)
5. Convert Your Pickup to Electric (DIY Video by GrassrootsEV)
Note: This video can be copied to viewer’s hard disk to keep!
6. Tom Gage of AC Propulsion speaks at EAA Silicon Valley (2005)
7. Monster Garage EV conversion (Jesse James)
and John Wayland White Zombie Videos (2006)
8. Electric Avenue by George Gladic Fox Valley EAA Chapter 2006.
9. Bruce Katz of Polyplus Battery Company speaks at EAASV (2005)
EV Repairs and Service
Western Petroleum Station
2051 E. Sahara (corner of Eastern Avenue and Sahara)
Las Vegas, NV 89104
Contact: Jim Johnson
Telephone: (702) 457-2675
Web site: http://storefront.dexonline.com/jims-texaco
Precision EV Components Machining Support
Real Products, LLC
3433 Neeham Road #2
North Las Vegas, NV 89030
Contact: Eric Tschabold
Tel: (702) 644-1165
Email: energyz@cox.net
EV Parts and Kits for Sale:
GrassrootsEV.com
Las Vegas Office
Address: 5225 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89118
“Electric Vehicles and Everything for Them”
Contact: Jon Hallquist
Tel: (702) 277-7544
Email: jon@grassrootsev.com
Web site: http://www.grassrootsev.com
OKA NEV ZEV Parts and Kits for Sale: www.okaauto.com
OKA NEV ZEV KIT cars in stock now for immediate delivery prices start at $5,000 FOB Las Vegas. We also have 4844 ALLTRAX Controllers(48V 400 A DC for Series motor) in stock (more than we need) $550 list, $375.00 NET.
Contact: Miro Kefurt
OKA AUTO USA : www.okaauto.com
Distributor: MIROX Corporation
5015 W. Sahara Ave. #125-130
Las Vegas, Nevada 89146
USA
Tel: (702) 683-8292
E-mail: okaauto@aol.com
The Free Energy Store
300 West Utah, Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Tel: (702) 320-0770
Fax: (702) 320-0270
Web site: http://www.freeenergystore.com
Contact: Russ Lord
Email: russ@freeenergystore.com
For Sale: Chrome "Electric" Emblems for EV's
Mike Chancey - Posted 06/25/00
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Checked: 07/13/03
Chrome "Electric" car emblems, just like the OEM factory lettering. Okay, so you own a beautiful electric vehicle, but does the world know? Show them with these profession quality "ELECTRIC" emblems. Fabricated from weather resistant thermoplastic, these signs feature a bright chrome like finish on the letter faces with a subtle matte black background. They mount easily with the self adhesive HighTack backing. Simply peel off the protective cover, and press the sign into place. Each sign is approximately 1.25" in height and 7" in length. Only $6.00 each or four for $20.00, plus $1.75 shipping and handling per order. Discounts for larger orders available. Send check or money order to:
Mike Chancey, 1700 East 80th Street, Kansas City, MO 64131, or order online.
EV Parts for Sale:
Hello to all fellow EV enthusiasts:
I want to thank everyone who attended or purchased parts from our July 8th 2009 emergency close out sale. I still have some choice equipment and parts for sale.
1. Mustang MD100 Chassis Dynamometer (dyno) $12,000
2. Hydrovane 13.5 hp rotary compressor with dryer $5500
3. Atlas Copco 20HP rotary compressor. $7000
4. Porsche RSK714 kit with 50 hp AC induction motor
with programable curtis controller $17,000
5. 48 volt 6.5 KW DC Motor $400
6. 48 volt 7.5 KW DC motor with controller and pot $750
I will help on some of the shipping costs on the big items.
Contact:
Bob McNamara
Las Vegas Electrical
Tel: (515) 897-3596
Please leave a message if I am not in.
EVs For Sale:
For Sale: RedStreak Electric Two-wheel Scooter with Bicycle Seat– New
Color: Silver
Asking Price: $200
Contact: Jean Norton
Tel: (702) 301-0979
For Sale: Electrans 3-wheel Futurista ETV
Net Weight: 1180 lbs.
Loaded Weight: 1765 lbs.
Max Speed: 55 MPH
Range: 110 Miles
Battery Pack: Lithium Iron Phosphate
Turning Radius: 18 ft 4 inches
Working Voltage: 60 Volts DC
Seats: 2
Recharge Time: Only 4 1/2 hours at 110 VAC
Department of Transportation (DOT) approval to license this vehicle through the DMV
Contact: Bob MacNamara
ElecTrans
Tel: (702) 927-8838
Web site: www.futurista.biz
For Sale: Electric 1985 Pontiac “Fiero” --Record-Holding Race Car
This 1985 Pontiac “Fiero” Conversion currently holds four National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) Class Records.
1. Class MC/F (Modified Conversion 97-120 volts)
2. Class MC/E (Modified Conversion 121-144 volts)
3. Class MC/D (Modified Conversion 145-168 volts)
4. Class MC/C (Modified Conversion 169-192 volts)
The 1985 Pontiac Fiero has been converted with:
1. A new Netgain Warp-9 Electric DC Motor coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission.
2. A DCP T-REX 1000 Water-cooled Controller with an Input Voltage Range of 96 to 336 Volts
and Motor Current Rating at 1000 Amps.
3. The Battery System is at 192 Volts. The battery pack consists of sixteen 12-volt sealed ODYSSEY PC-680 batteries with the capability of increasing battery pack capacity and voltages to compete in the NEDRA MC/B Class (Modified Conversion 193-240 volts) or to a maximum capacity of 336-volts to compete in the MC/A Class (Modified Conversion 241 volts and higher).
4. Tires are B.F. Goodrich G-Force T/A Drag Radials P215/60 R14 that connect the Electric Motor torque to the road for “no slip” acceleration.
5. Battery Charger is a 120- to 240-volt Variable Transformer with a heavy-duty full bridge rectifier. Additional cables and connectors are installed for Dump Charging from a DC battery pack.
Asking Price: $10,000 or Best Offer.
Contact: William Kuehl
Address: 4504 W. Alexander Road, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89032
Telephone: 702-636-0304
For Sale: 1995 Geo Metro Conversion Electric Car
Body Configuration: 2-door
Color: Red
Battery Pack: 72-Volt System using Nine 8-Volt Lead Acid Golf Cart Batteries
Range: 35 mile range
Top Speed: 70 mph
Onboard 72-Volt Charger
2-year-old conversion from Ogden, Utah
Price: $8,000
Contact: Jean Norton
Tel: (702) 301-0979
LVEVA Board of Directors:
Richard Furniss, President
Lloyd Reece, Vice President
Bill Kuehl, Secretary/Treasurer
Al Sawyer, Jan Himber, Jon Hallquist, Dan Trujillo
Newsletter Editors and Contributors:
Richard Furniss, Lloyd Reece, Bill Kuehl, Al Sawyer, P.E.,
Jan Himber, Brent Singleton, Kent Singleton, Stan Hanel
WATTS HAPPENING
is published monthly by the
Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association,
a chapter of the Electric Auto Association
Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association web site
http://www.lveva.org
Electric Auto Association web site
http://www.eaaev.org
Electric Auto Association
Membership Renewals
323 Los Altos Drive
Aptos, CA 95003-5248
Current EVents contact:
At http://www.eaaev.org/eaaboard.html
Ron Freund
Chairman, CE Publication
Address Correspondence to:
LVEVA
2816 W. El Campo Grande Avenue
No. Las Vegas, NV 89031
Call for Information:
Richard Furniss (702) 453-6196
Jan Himber for Al Sawyer (702) 642-4000
Bill Kuehl (702) 636-0304
Stan Hanel (702) 405-0506
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