... I've now driven over 5,000 miles in my Force. Gordon Stallings 1999 Solectria Force...
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Mike Thompson
mike.thompson@...
May 30, 2001 5:21 am
If you live in one of these districts, PLEASE call your representative TODAY (Wednesday) to express your opposition to AB1390!! (Assuming you oppose it! Most...
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David Roden (Akron OH...
roden@...
May 31, 2001 5:12 am
For those who might be looking for an alternative now that Solectria is (reportedly) exiting the conversion business, here's something besides the Think City...
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Mike Thompson
mike.thompson@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:09 am
California issue though it affects other states like New York and Massachusetts. Greg's right. This is REALLY BAD! If you want the ZEV mandate to encourage the...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 1, 2001 6:58 am
Sent to EV groups. Please work to have your members to act now! It is very *important* to stop AB1390. Please read the page ...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:40 am
Today I had a job in Hercules (a long drive in the company ICE). On the way back I stopped at the Richmond Hill-Top Mall. I have seen on the EV charging maps...
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Mike Thompson
mike.thompson@...
Jun 6, 2001 1:27 am
Forwarded to all ev lists. Apologies for repeats, but this issue affects us all and it bears repeating!! Later, "A rainbow is only part of a circle."...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 6, 2001 5:24 am
Please choose your representative and use the sample letter below [ BE SURE TO CORRECTLY FILL IN THE SPECIFIED AREAS ] Assemblymember.Diaz@......
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Leonard Tramiel
leonard@...
Jun 8, 2001 3:40 pm
I understand that the number of Amp/hrs in the battery pack depends on how hard you want to work it and how long you want the batteries to last. Can anyone...
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David Roden (Akron OH...
roden@...
Jun 10, 2001 7:18 am
... Every time you cycle (discharge and charge) a battery, you take a bit of its life away. Cycling it deeply (using a greater percentage of the capacity)...
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Leonard Tramiel
leonard@...
Jun 10, 2001 8:43 pm
Thanks David, Not confusing at all. I wonder if anyone can give me a more quantitative reference than: "Cycling it deeply ... makes it age faster" -Leonard...
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David Roden (Akron OH...
roden@...
Jun 11, 2001 3:38 am
... There is no one answer to this. I have six different sources and each one says something different. Are you sitting down? <g> 1. A chart from the East...
I am in the process of buying a '96 Force with NiMH batteries about 2 years old. They are represented as still able to provide a range of 50 + miles. Where can...
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Tracy, Matt
mtracy@...
Jun 12, 2001 6:07 pm
This is what happened with my batteries. I purchased my 144V 1992 Solectria Force from Nevada Power in 8/98. I did some work on it over the winter, and on...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 13, 2001 7:05 am
I have updated the grous settings to allow the public who are not subscribed to view certain sections of this group: files, database, links Members can add to...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 20, 2001 4:06 pm
Sexiestgeekalive seeks downtown San Jose EV1 charging Since Ellen will be on the road, I have left her my tel# to tell her of any private EV charging in...
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Earl A. Killian
earl@...
Jun 21, 2001 12:01 am
When I got my Force, I just started plugging it into the NEMA 6-20 outlet in my garage (just happened to have one already). First issue: I would like to have a...
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Tom Hudson
tomhudson@...
Jun 21, 2001 2:35 am
Earl, Check out Herbach & Rademann (http://www.herbach.com/catalog.htm), go to the Panel Meters section of their catalog. Item TM93MET2386 is what you're ...
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David Roden (Akron OH...
roden@...
Jun 21, 2001 6:18 am
... A good electrical supply house can sell you a motor-driven timer with programmable on-off times. They're not fancy or electronic, but sturdy and reliable....
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Noel Adams
anbausa@...
Jun 21, 2001 3:09 pm
The Zivan charger on Sparrows occassionally suffers from thermal runaway. To avoid killing the batteries many sparrow owners charge using a timer. There are...
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umarc@...
Jun 21, 2001 10:33 pm
... What Zivan model would that be? Rob Landry umarc@......
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 22, 2001 8:22 am
Poll: CARB is proposing a conductive EV charging standard The CARB staff has developed recommended standards for EV charging infrastructure. CARB proposes that...
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Noel Adams
anbausa@...
Jun 22, 2001 2:30 pm
I think that the sparrow uses the NG3. Don't really think it's the chargers fault however, the Sparrow has 3 Optimas under the seat and these tend to get hot...
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Nicholas Pasquale
pasqualen@...
Jun 22, 2001 5:46 pm
My company has a 98 force that we had in storage and never powered. It came without a battery pack and was ordered for experimental reasons. Now that we...
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Gardner L Harris
gardnerh@...
Jun 22, 2001 8:03 pm
How strange! I use 20 Optima Y/Ts in my escort. Two of them are in sealed compartments just to the rear of the rear wheel wells and are only large enough to...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 26, 2001 6:13 am
We have 37 responses to the poll http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVList/message/7523 If you have not sent your view yet, please do so Read read the POST and send...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 27, 2001 11:36 am
Tim is up in the Sacramento area and plans to attend and show his support for EV charging. Locals, please consider attending. [ use http://maps.yahoo.com...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 29, 2001 7:18 am
honda-insight@yahoogroups.com, toyota-prius@yahoogroups.com, uselectricar_ev@yahoogroups.com, force_ev@egroups.com, ev1-club@... [POSTed to the EV...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Jun 29, 2001 7:42 am
[POSTed to the EV and hybrid lists/groups] I need to tabulate an answer of how many San Francisco Bay area EV and how many San Francisco Bay area hybrid...
