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Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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Are S-10 Evs still for lease? I'm curious because I now lease an EV-1 which is completed at end of August 2003. I still have the large paddle charger in my garage. I would like to continue driving electric with inductive charging. Fred Beer [email removed]
craig hampton
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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I have a one year old Generation II large paddle charger for sale. Charger was seldom used and works great. It could easily be adapted to become a portable charger to take with you on the road. First $200.00 takes it. I live in Vacaville but could ship anywhere for actual ship...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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Happy New Year! We've just completed some major revisions and updates to www.evchargernews.com (or http://evchargernews.home.attbi.com ). Some pages were inadvertently out of commission for a couple of days. My apologies, and thanks to drivers who pointed out the problem. We'v...
Tony Pirondini
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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I'm getting about 35 miles of city driving per full charge. Freeway is about 45 miles. I'm disappointed that I'm not getting the 60 - 80 miles per charge as promised... I've been told that my mileage is on the low side, but Performance Chevy couldn't find any major battery pac...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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Hello EVeryone! This is a heads up, to alert you to a new and significant development in the Electric Auto Association (the EAA), www.eaaev.org . We have set up a process to accept tax-deductible donations to our organization, which includes targeted funds for special projects...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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Actually, the NiMH EV1 has 26 batteries, just like the PbA. The nominal voltage of the NiMH EV1 is 343 volts, whereas the PbA car is nominally 312 volts. The NiMh Ovonic battery does have 11 cells, 13.2 volts nominal, but it is the same size as the 12.0 v Panasonic PbA battery...
eluebben
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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MessageYes, you're probably right. They're tired. I'll confirm the price from my local dealer and write again. I have confirmed that the Rav4 Nimh Panasonic is the same size as the Panasonic Pba. The Ovonic battery has one additional cell and is longer, hence the EV1 NiMH only...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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Eric, All of my batteries seem to be in the same shape. They all have the same (low) voltage, as indicated on the GM PDT. They all sag together on acceleration. I've done test drives with the tech sitting in the passenger seat reading the PDT. There are no specific batteries o...
craig hampton
Mon Sep 12 09:38:24 2005
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In answer to Tom's questions about the shell. I purchased it new in January of this year for about $700.00. It is white fiberglass with windows (see attached pics) and a slightly raised tail end. It weighs approx 150 lbs. I received just about the same range with the shell as...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Sorry to clutter your in-box.... The earlier announcement had an incorrect GPS location. Nothing else has changed. This is an EV1 Club meeting, but other EVs and their drivers and friends and family are most certainly welcome. See you there! ===================================...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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REMINDER -- EV1 Club meeting this Saturday, November 2. This is an EV1 Club meeting, but other EVs and their drivers and friends and family are most certainly welcome. See you there! ============================================== For the third year in a row, we will hold an au...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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We've just published updated Los Angeles County and Orange County charging station listings in the second generation of our new, condensed format. We plan to issue all the other regions in this format as soon as possible. This is the first time that we've published complete Or...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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This EV1 group meeting is also open to other EV drivers. Please RSVP if you are coming, especially if you need charging. I'll need to know what type of car you have, and how many hours of charge you think you will need. This will be a fun event, and this is a great place to br...
Mike Kane
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Congratulations Tom, Let me know how you make out on range. I'm wondering if I need to get my pack checked. Mine's also a 98 with pba's. (May have come from the same source, since the last service records originated in Florida) I can get over 40mi if I keep my speed below 60 o...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Hello! Anybody out there? My S10E is on the road, and has been for a couple of weeks. It's a 1998 factory S10E, originally a Gulf Power truck, shipped to Sacramento from Pensacola, FL. It has only 3,200 miles on it. It was not driven or charged for the last year or so. Scott a...
William Korthof
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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If you're EV is *really hooked up* (with an ACP drive system), a diagnostic discharge test is as simple as plugging the Tzero into and outlet and telling its charger to make your electric meter *spin backwards*. /wk At 09:40 AM 9/14/02 -0700, Tom Dowling wrote: >The Chevrolet...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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The Chevrolet S10E service dealer in Sacramento has a resistor bank that is about the size of a small desk, with wheels, specifically for discharge testing and cycling of S10E battery packs while installed in the truck. It discharges at 25 Amps -- about 8kW. It would make a gr...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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We've just published updated Bay Area and Los Angeles charging station listings in a new, condensed format. We plan to issue all the other regions in this format as soon as possible. See http://evchargernews.home.attbi.com or www.evchargernews.com There are still a few rough e...
Michael H. Schwabe
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Hello EVeryone, I talked to Beatrice at Clean Fuels last week about the vandalized chargers at Costco Vallejo, and she informs me that GM is going to be replacing the chargers. That was really good news. My thanks to GM for doing that. Michael > -----Original Message----- > Fr...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Summer vacations have delayed updates to the EV Charger News. Now we're back in catch-up mode. The Breaking News page has just been updated. See http://evchargernews.home.attbi.com/breakingnews.htm One of the items you'll see is a sample of a proposed new map format, using Mic...
Jerry Hudgins
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Looks like I'll be moving in two or three months to Asheville, where there's no service location within a practical distance, so I'm obliged to find someone to assume my S10E pickup's lease. It's a 1998 model with NiMH batteries, and less than 7000 miles on the odometer. The l...
Jerry Hudgins
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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A fellow EV driver asked me recently for details on a new inductive charger in Fairfax (CA). These I could not provide, as I'd heard nothing about said charger prior to that. However, I remembered the question this evening when passing through Fairfax, and I spent a few minute...
Jim Wampler
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Thanks for the offers guys, but I think I'll keep it. I've learned a bit about reviving packs and would like to give it a try myself, but it's apparently a real job to remove the pack from the factory S-10. So, I've decided to let the only EV authorized dealer in Northern Cali...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:23:02 -0000 From: "anbausa" <[email removed]> Subject: Chevy S10E on eBay There is an S10E Electric Truck on eBay at the moment. 1998 Chevy S10E Electric Truck - White Item 1836303988 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewIte...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:32:56 -0000 From: "anbausa" <[email removed]> Subject: Chevy S10E truck available on eBay EV Finder Alert: There is a Chevy S10E truck available on eBay at the moment. 1998 Chevy S10E truck - White Item 1832928290 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymo...
Tom Dowling
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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There's a new feature on the EV Charger News page -- http://evchargernews.home.attbi.com The feature is an Emergency Charging Locations page. This was suggested by members of the RAV4 EV group, but is available to all EV drivers. These are primarily residential locations -- EV...
Mike Thompson
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Nice technique. I think an even better variant is to take the tech with you while you drive it down to the EVent horizon where it drops off. Let the tech tell you how far it can go. Then when it poops out and you park it on the side of the road, the tech can tell you how mista...
Jerry Hudgins
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Just got my truck back from Performance Chevrolet in Sacramento, where it had been towed about a month ago for pack service. I'd reported a repeatable sudden SOC drop-off from about a third full to empty, and guessed that it had a weak cell or two. The folks at Performance not...
Noel Adams
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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Just a couple of comments. First the EV1 charger site still shows the chargers at SM City Hall and Santa Monica Pier as LPI but both locations have been updated to SPI. Santa Monica Town hall does have 2 inductive as listed but one of the chargers is for exempt vehicles only a...
Mike Thompson
Mon Sep 12 09:38:22 2005
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > Would you POST this, or can I in your name? Here's a postable version I'm posting... > --- Mike Thompson <[email removed]> wrote: I've been very excited about the possibility of EV Rentals expanding their EV Rental fleet wi...