We’re always planning something. The plan seldom works but generally something good will come out of it. Our current plans include: A paint job for Seven (editor’s note: still waffling over the color) Converting a converted van Expanding into and the future of EVs and how hacking will be a part of it. Paint Paint color has been a question
I’ve been asked how are batteries are holding up. They are about 7 years old now and were abused a bit throughout their life, more-so early on when we were following the advice of others about BMS and states of charge and charge cycles. We’ve learned a lot since then and if you’ve read my previous posts you are familiar
As I think back on my last blog, I hadn’t realized I had been quite so remiss in my own babbling way of relating new and used information to our followers. After meeting some of our followers at the Science Center in St. Louis last month, and having some of the other team members reminding me to get off my
We have several upcoming events including taking part in National Drive Electric Week, a visit to Purdue university, EVCCON 5, and an upcoming TV show we’re featured in… On September 16 at 6pm CST tune in to the Velocity channel and see Seven!! That’s right, Prime Time, Baby! Thanks to the folks from Translogic who have been doing a smash-up job
[ I’ve been remiss keeping you up to date about what’s going on at IMW HQ. We are long overdue for a blog post. In the meantime, I’d like to share some of what Jack Rickard of EVtv recently posted about IMW (full blog post here). –Jen, IMW slacker webmaster ] “And what did they do with their failure? There
I’m often asked why MPG or MPGe is used when discussing the amount of energy used as fuel. Most recently I had a conversation with Craig Vetter about this and it seemed worth reproducing my thoughts here: I think the way we measure energy use for vehicles is flawed. Why do we use the unit of a gallon, a unit
With our upcoming appearance at the Green Grand Prix, we figured it’s time to go over Seven with an eye towards any general maintenance it may need. After all, she has 8500 miles on her, and some of them are very hard miles thanks to all of the, er, scientific test driving we’ve done over the years. Although she’s in
The resurrection of Seven is upon us. The wait is over. As we breathe new life into the redesigned and re-engineered Seven it’s important to remember what hasn’t changed and why: its heart and soul, the spirit that first brought Seven into existence. We have been anxiously planning several public events to celebrate the completion of the project. The best
The rebuild of Seven’s body, once upon a time a ‘winter’ project, has been a very long haul…did I ever say which winter it was supposed to be??? We may finally be approaching the downhill side. This can be difficult to determine since I don’t know where the top of this particular proverbial hill is. Who knows? Reg does. Reg
George Hamstra of NetGain Motors (http://go-ev.com), extended an invitation to Illuminati Motor Works to visit his facilities in Chicago, IL. So, this past week Nate and I took a trip up to the Chicago area and met up with George Hamstra at Warfield Electric Company, the folks that manufacture George’s record breaking WARP series motors, for a tour of the
