Infographics:
Electric Motor Controllers:
- http://www.curtisinst.com
The largest manufacturer of controllers for DC Series electric motors (wholesale only) - http://www.alltraxinc.com
Good quality product, highly programmable - http://www.cafeelectric.com
Otmar Edenhoech’s home of the Zilla site. This extreme controller
powers more high performance and drag racing oriented EVs than any
other. - http://www.logisystemscontrollers.com/index.html
I just spoke with Jim down there, and he told me that he may be able to get it back up and running for << the Curtis rebuild price ($700 or so), and can increase the current and voltage (750-900A, 156V). I’m going to pack it up right away! - Logisystems in TX is doing repairs on blown Curtis controllers now. They also claim to be on the verge of offering new 156vdc controllers in the 800 to 1000 amp range.
EV Racing:
Electric Motors:
- http://www.ddmotorsystems.com
Series DC electric motors for high performance golf carts and motorcylce sized vehicles. - http://www.adc.com
Advanced (Series) DC Motors for medium to large sized Evs. - http://www.ddmotorsystems.com
Warp Electric Series DC electric motors for medium to large sized EVs. - http://www.ddmotorsystems.com
AC motors for high perfomance golf carts and electric motorcycles. - http://www.agnimotors.com
India based company attempting to manufacture improved version of the Lynch motors manufactured by Briggs & Stratten in the US and LMC/Lemco in Europe. These DC Series pancake style motors are efficient, and produce excellent power for their relatively low weight.
Batteries:
- http://www.goldpeak.com
They purchased assets and license of the Bolder Technology and plan on building the Bolder Cells. These are the batteries that Kilcycle used to have before Bolder went out of business. - http://www.enersysinc.com
EnerSys is the world’s largest industrial battery company offering a broad line of batteries and chargers for electric motive power applications.
DC to DC Converters:
- http://www.vicr.com
Vicor DC to DC converters. Their Maxi/Mini/Micro line has input voltage selecction between 18 and 425V (will survive spikes up to 500V) and can deliver up to 600W (typical 57Amp for the 12V variant) and since they are over-current (and over-temp) protected, they can be switched in parallel for more current. Operating temps between -55 and +100 deg Celcius available
Renewable Energy:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory located in Golden Colorado 80401 phone: (303) 384-7580.
http://www.nrel.gov - Renewable Energy Demonstration Center
623 14th St. Golden, CO 80401
phone: (303) 279-5900 - Hydrogen Components Incorporated
12420 N Dumont Way
Littleton, CO 80125 (303) 791-7972 - National Council for Solar Growth
https://evergreensolar.com
Electric Vehicles – Small (NEVs, scooters, etc):
- Currie conversion kits for small electric bikes
http://www.currietech.com - The Electric Motorcycle Portal
http://www.electricmotorcycles.net/ - Electric Motorcycle Listserv
http://www.electricmotorcycles.net/listserv
Electric Vehicles – Production:
- Produces electric motorcycles and conversion kits. Has an AC powered GPR (mini sport bike sometimes refered to as pocket bikes) and a Motard (basically a motocross bike set up with street tires)
http://www.thunderstruck-ev.com - Shawn Lawless is a great guy who does great work on his electric drag racers and parade floats. His latest effort revolves around producing an electric mower with a zero turning radius like the gas powered Dixie Chopper types.
http://www.zeromow.com/ - Ontario Canada company manufacturing an Elec Trak like electric tractor with a number of front mounted attachements.
http://www.electrictractor.com - Phoenix Motor Cars website is:
http://66.218.37.153/cars.htm - Tesla Motor Cars website is:
http://www.teslamotors.com/ - Zenn Cars: Plug-in electric cars for Urban Commuting
zenncars.com - Vetrix makes powerful motorcycle-like scooters, website is:
http://www.vectrixusa.com/ - The Vetrix is an electric “maxi scooter”, meaning performance similar to a 250cc scooter. The scooter is a large motorcycle sixed machine with two places with a trunk for a helmet. The batteries are in central position and the refill with 80% is carried out in 2 hours. It features regen braking. The batteries are Nickel/Metal Hydrat without maintenance. The models for Europe produced in Poland and the current price of the scooter is 6299? cash and a 4 years leasing to 150? per month including/understanding the insurance, maintenance and the assistance with the guarantee 4 years.
- Harvey Coachworks and EV:
http://www.harveyev.com/products.shtml
Electric Vehicles – Hybrids:
- Energy, Technologies, Issues and Policies for Sustainable Mobility
http://www.greencarcongress.com - Group focussed on discussions of Plug-In Hybrids
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/We_Want_Plug_In_Electric_Cars - Company seems intent on bringing hybrids and EVs with advanced batteries to the market.
http://www.hybridtechnologies.com
Electric Vehicles – Plug-In Capable Hybrids
- http://www.hybridconsortium.org
- Site has news feeds on hybrids and alternative fuel related stories.
http://www.40MPG.org
Electric Vehicles – Conversion (parts, companies, etc):
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_conversion
- One of our top 10 sites for EV parts and forums. Specializes in…
http://www.visforvoltage.com - EV America
http://www.ev-america.com/ - EV Source
Top of the line components (chargers, controllers, motors, and misc parts)
http://www.evsource.com - Rusco Charger
The other PFC Charger company (the red one) located in Oregon, RussCo – Russ Kaufmann owner. The red ones tend to be cheaper than the green ones. Three charging stages. RUSSCO Electro-Mechanical Engineering
P. O. Box 885 Merlin, OR 97532 (541) 479-0903 russco@sonic.net
http://russcoev.com - Damon Controller Company
Battery Technologies and Sources for Electric Vehicles:
- The Ultimate FAQ for Deep Cycle Battery Basics and Information
http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Battery_FAQ.htm - Car and Deep Cycle Battery FAQ
http://www.batteryfaq.org/ - Electric Vehicle Battery Information
http://www.madkatz.com/ev/battery.html
Electric Vehicle Clubs:
- Electric Auto Association
National super set of affiliated EV clubs across the US and Canada. Go to their web site click on chapters and drill down for an EAA affiliated club in an area near you.
http://www.eaaev.org - Currie conversion kits for small electric bikes
http://www.currietech.com - Currie conversion kits for small electric bikes
http://www.currietech.com - Web group for folks interested in restoring and upgrading old electric tractors made in the early 1970s. Some good information here as they also talk accasionally about converting a gas tractor or snowblower and I have seen some discussion of modern electric tractors.
http://www.elec-trak.com/
Electric Vehicle and Renewable Energy Publications and Periodicals:
- Home of the Environmental Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com - http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/
EV suppliers:
- www.evparts.com
- www.kta-ev.com
- www.electroauto.com
- www.ev-america.com
- www.thunderstruck-ev.com
- www.metricmind.com
- www.canev.com
- www.alltraxinc.com
- www.manzanitamicro.com
- www.cafeelectric.com
- www.cloudelectric.com
- www.grassrootsev.com
Electric Vehicle Conversion Companies
- Home of the Environmental Magazine
http://www.electroauto.com - http://www.canev.com
- Converting the world one EV at a time. … we will convert it to full electric (our first offerings will be Ford Focus, PT Cruiser
http://www.LeftCoastConversions.com - Want to document your conversion or just look at the efforts of others? EV Forge. it’s purpose is to provide free hosting for conversion web sites. No ads, either, really nice!
http://www.evforge.net - Not a ton of content yet, but here is my page on it:
http://9Electric.evforge.net
Components and Systems:
- www.kta-ev.com
- www.evworld.com
- www.evparts.com/about/index.php
- www.metricmind.com
- www.electroauto.com
- www.go-ev.com
- www.ev-america.com
- www.austinev.org/evtradinpost
- www.campbellot.com/electric%20vehicle/little%20red.htm
- CloudElectric has changed names
http://www.electricvehiclesusa.com
Calculators:
There is a spreadsheet on my site that will help you out. See the “drive RPM to vehicle speed spreadsheet”
http://www.cameronsoftware.com/ev/EV_IndexDriveSystem.html
Web Forums:
- http://www.electricmotorcycles.net (splinter)
- http://www.visforvoltage.com
- http://vehiculeselectriques.free.fr/
Bloggers:
- http://www.evconvert.com
- http://www.hitorqueelectric.com
- http://batteryvehiclesociety.org.uk/wordpress/
- http://www.plugsandcars.blogspot.com
- Roy LeMeur
- NEDRA NW Regional Director
www.nedra.com - My EV and RE Project Pages
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/renewables/evpage.html - Informative Electric Vehicle Links-
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/renewables/evlinks.html
Controller Design:
http://vehiculeselectriques.free.fr/racingcontroller.html
Here are some formulas that might help:
- The basic electrical formulas used for EVs:
http://www.cameronsoftware.com/ev/EV_Electricity.html - Electrical formulas specific to EVs:
http://www.cameronsoftware.com/ev/EV_BatteryPhysics.html - The basic kinetic formulas:
http://www.cameronsoftware.com/ev/EV_BasicPhysicsOfMotion.html - Formulas specific to calculating a motor size:
http://www.cameronsoftware.com/ev/EV_CalculateMotorSize.html