Thoughts on Building an Electric Car

This collection of pages used to be a Blogger blog, but Google forced me to abandon it in 2010. I was doing research into electric cars and battery power in general when I wrote these short posts. My background is in electrical engineering, I ended up with an MSEE from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) back in 1991, but I never had an opportunity to work with power electronics, energy conversion, etc. A friend of mine from Lowell eventually started his own alternative energy company, so I keep up a little through him.

Without further ado, the original de-blogged articles, plus a couple links to my auto hobby site:

Changing Driving Behavior Or How People Use Cars
Electric Motor Horsepower Rating for Automobile Use
Rectification in Motors and Generators
Why an Electric Powered Car
Rechargeable Lead Acid and NiCd Batteries in Vehicles
Batteries for Load Balancing and Locomotion
Energy in a Bottle
Basic Power Conversion
The Model T as the Killer App of Cars
Troubleshooting Car and Engine Problems
The Omni Project