Author: joelado

Earlier in the year I made friends with Mike Harvey who had joined our local electric vehicle club and immediately became busy converting cars to EVs and making BugE Blue Sky Design kits into drivable electric vehicles. After...

Last week I was at the 23rd International Electric Vehicle Symposium, otherwise known as EVS23. Last year I helped organize volunteers for the Electric Drive Transportation Association Conference (EDTA) coming from EVA/DC and...

When people ask me when did I start becoming interested in electric vehicles I honestly tell them I can’t remember. Electric vehicles weren’t an “aha!” moment in my life where I suddenly realized that I...

In 1980 Stanford Ovshinsky patented a battery that was supposed to revolutionize the world. A battery that he knew could take almost unlimited charges and discharges, a battery that held far more energy at half the weight of...

One of the most pervasive views that I have worked hard against is that electric vehicles are small, slow, derivatives of golf carts. Golf carts may be slow, but electric vehicles never have been. The Count Gaston de...