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Introduction
Electric vehicles have a long history. The earliest cars were electric driven, not gasoline, and for decades in the early development of the automobile the electrics were highly preferred (the early gasoline engines were unreliable and hard to use). Obviously the world of automobiles shifted, and now electric vehicles are way outside the mainstream. Yet, many see them as a possible savior, so much so that California and other governments have required, in law, the introduction of electric vehicles. (The California law calls for "Zero Emissions Vehicles", and to be Zero Emission, this means an EV).
I have been researching EV's for many years, and come close a couple times to building one of my own. I currently own a couple small EV's, and an EVT-4000 electric motor scooter. The information on this page reflects that interest.
Articles
Discussion groups
- Yahoo!Groups has many EV-related discussion groups, collected here.
- The Zappy List (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/zappy/): "The largest electric scooter forum on the planet". This was originally formed to discuss ZAPP's Zappy scooter, at one time a highly popular stand-up electric scooter, and has since strayed to the many other similar scooters.
- Fuel Cell Scooters (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/fcscooters/): The summary says it's about "discusses anything pertaining to fuel cell powered scooters, etc". Seems to me there aren't any commercial fuel cell powered scooters.
- NIMH_users (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/NIMH_users/): A list for owners, vendors and fans of NiMH battery packs for electric scooters,bikes and other electric products.
- Corbin Sparrow Electric Vehicle Driver's Discussions (groups.yahoo.com/group/sparrow_ev/): This group's subject is the Corbin Sparrow electric vehicle. It is open to present, future and potential owners, for the purpose of primarily non-commercial networking and of resolving common issues.
- Hybrid Toyota Prius E-mail Group (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/toyota-prius/): The group is to share information among owners and others interested in the Toyota Prius. This is the first mass-produced hybrid gasoline-electric vehicle in the world, with over 100,000 having been produced world-wide since 1997.
- ElectricVehicles (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ElectricVehicles/): A place for those people interested in pursuing or acquiring information in a discussion of the pros and cons of pure electric vehicle ownership.
- RAV4_EV (autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAV4_EV/): Where Toyota RAV4 Electric Vehicle (EV) driver's discussions lead to networking, the resolve of common issues of benefit to the drivers.
- EVware (groups.yahoo.com/group/EVware/): This list is dedicated to the discussion and exchange of ideas relative to the development of one or more prototype electric vehicles on an "open standards" basis.
- EV World Community Forum (evworld.com/databases/forum_index.cfm):
Companies
[Seattle Times Magazine; July 27, 2003; seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2003/0727/cover.html] Stopping Traffic Even though it's Ferrari red, zooms from zero to 60 in four seconds, and has a sensuous black leather dash with the same Motech data display found in Grand Prix race cars, this is not your typical little red sports car. ... Top speed, 130 miles per hour. About 80 miles per charge. Three hours to completely recharge in a dryer socket, 10 minutes to recharge 80 percent in a high-current, 200-amp socket. ... Who created this car, anyway? Rick Woodbury, a self-taught engineer and printer who once raced and sold Porsches and takes his inspiration from Tibetan Buddhism, and his son, Bryan Woodbury, a 24-year-old computer whiz and physics junkie. The car is the Tango, made by http://commutercars.com/
Magazines
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