Electricfly at the front of Eco-Wheels Show

Electricfly was there! Saturday and Sunday! May 29 - 30th, 2010!

As part of the show contingent, and supporting as well as representing the effects and results of the work of the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, Electricfly was at  Toronto's 1st Annual ECO-WHEELS SHOW set in the unique Victorian backdrop of The Distillery District.

Again - I have not got all my pictures sorted out for uploading yet, so they will be added later!

Electricfly - uses

In normal use - I drive the car to the Bank, the Mall at Yorkdale, to Canadian Tire at Allen & Lawrence, to work, to Sheridan Mall at Jane & Wilson, and other simple local trips that driving a gas hog makes no sense for.

On longer trips - last Summer - I have driven from Wilson and Ancaster Rd, to 2220 Midland Ave. in Scarborough - just under 20 Kms. Or Also last November, from Wilson Ave. & Ancaster Rd. to 3200 14th Avenue, in Unionville - about 20 Km. For reason of Hills, traffic and lights - this last one - I had to charge up at a Gas Station!

That was a cute event! I says to the station attendant, "I see where you fuel up your gas customers - where do you charge up your electric car customers?" He says "2008?", "no - 1989" I say! "This I gotta See" he says! And then after checking it out, he showed where I could plug in and charge it up in back - just over from where I had parked.

Electricfly - aka NOGAS96V

Welcome to the Blog of my own Electric Vehicle renovation experience!

It is an on going project currently - refining, correcting, and upgrading the items on the electric car. It is my rolling classroom, my test lab, and my sample EV!

There is more info on my other web site at http://www.myelectricfly.com/ but I will use this space to do my regular updates now.

You can also view some of the specs of the car at http://www.evalbum.com/1219.

I have added my first mounted solar panel to the car, using it to maintain and keep up the charge on my accessory battery, and although it is just a tiny panel - it almost eleimanates the need to charge the accessory battery at pack charge time: it shows 100% charged in less than 5 minutes when I set up my charger.

My energy on recharge, monitored by an energy monitor, says I use about 200 to 275 Watt Hours per Kilometer (Km) - without excelent battery management. I will be upgrading my controls for the batteries - adding equalizers - and testing to see the difference with them.