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Okay one thing I have been noticing a lot on the forum, is shipping and receiving problems of new scooters. It seems that a lot of folks who receive their new scooters(sometimes) end up having cosmetic damages.
I am just wondering how well these companies package their products well enough, to prevent damage (for travel).
In any case, if any parts are damaged (when you receive their product), you should be able to get a replacement part for free, in exchange for the broken or damaged part (especially if it's warrentied).
I wonder how well online scooter companies handle these types of issues.

Interesting article; but will we actually start seeing less and less large vehicles and SUV's off the road? Looks like Hummer (GM) is not doing so great with sales
---> I remember I used to deliver their parts, ughg I despised carrying their "stuff".
ehem cough, chevy parts cough hummer.

http://biz.yahoo.com/usnews/080610/10_cars_hurt_most_by_4_gas.html?.v=2&.pf=family-home

Okay I ran into this site while searching for something completely different hrmmm???
Anyone ever heard of these folks??? http://www.septechnologies.biz/

I found this link on Google, and it's pretty much a complete list of charging stations available throughout
different states. You can either do a search by a color coded map or you can find charging stations lists by cities.
I am not sure how up-to-date this search engine is.

http://www.evchargernews.com/#regions

See this is why I love Oregon
Portland was ranked #1 for America's greenest city

http://www.katu.com/news/15716742.html

"The PopSci folks looked at electricity use, transportation habits, "green" living, and recycling habits".
"It says half its power comes from renewable sources, a quarter of the workforce commutes by bike, carpool or public transportation. And it has 35 buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council".

I am suprised that San Francisco ranked number 2 on the list!

Okay so I had some time this morning to write up a quick entry for the issue that kept racking in my brain at 6am
this morning before I went to work. So had to jump on the forum of course and write a blog about it!

The issue that I am dealing with is about Hybrids and how they are still half gas/half electric.
Why is it that electric vehicles have been around since the 1800's???? if it seems like we have the technology
and resources to build them and sell them and take less gas vehicles off the streets, why isn't this happening??
I have been pondering over this all morning.
I of course understand that this will take quite some time for this to happen.
Just why isn't more and more of it happening? Does that make any sence ?

I happened to borrow the Convert It book from David. I startd reading it over the weekend
this would be a great book to really read through and gain information on how to build an EV, especially
for those who are completely new to the Ev world such as myself.

As it makes sence to me " Don't replace your car- Recycle it"

Convert it; explains why Ev's are so much more cleaner and more simple than the Internal combustion engine.

I am still reading the book and find myself getting more and more excited about electric vehicles
I also realize that I am seeing and realizing a lot more about our environment (still) than a lot of others around me.
Which kind of freaks me out but I feel like my view points are changing and I am changing to be indifferent
One day at a time ~

I got to go to my first EAASV meeting yesterday, and it was rather interesting.
I obtained a lot of information and understood quite a bit by just listening and talking to some EV folks.
Richard Hatfield who was the main spokesperson for the meeting has quite an interesting background in the
automotive industry and EV's of 30 years experience (if i'm not mistaken).
There was this EV magazine that got passed around and when I took a look at it and read some of it I just started
realizing that I remember bringing up certain subjects on the forum. Interesting. It was almost like "Aha"!
Since David brought up EV's to me, I literally had no idea that they had existed since the 1800's nonetheless!!!
There is a lot of history in Ev's that I just didn't realize.
Oh there is your usual hybrid but it's still half gas/half electric. I just think that Ev's are truly amazing
piece of work and it's something to be considered for our future.
Anyway, I have attached my pictures that I took with my camera phone yesterday.
I got some decent shots of both batteries and motors

I think the person sitting in the EV car is the owner

I would get clausterphobic in one of these!

Okay this is a picture of the motor and batteries of the EvCar that was at the meeting.
If you look carefully they somehow managed to put a power strip cord and plug in everything, very clever
The pic also looks like a modern piece of art, haha interesting how I managed to get it to look like that.
It's just that by looking at this design the motor with the batteries look so simple and safe for the enviornment
compared to an internal combustible engine because, you can't compare it

I am starting to believe that the more Electric Vehicles get noticed, the more people and more communities will become more aware of what oil and gasoline does and how these things are harmful to our environment.
We want to live longer and live healthier lives, now is the time to take action and become involved in changing the world. I have just never realized-------

I over heard about Gyroscopes this evening and thought they were quite interesting.
I did not know what they were until I did a little internet research, pretty cool!
especially bicycles

http://www.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm

http://www.howstuffworks.com/bicycle.htm

This afternoon David and I were able to hook up the Kelly controller to the Honda elite.
However I kept scratching my head on this one
because the Kelly controller looked so much like an air filter to me???
Maybe because I am more familiar with general maintenance on vehicles?? I dunno, but I just kept thinking
of how the top part of the controller looked a lot like the fabric of a simple air filter.

So we were able to hook it up and turned the throttle and the motor turned, finally! Yay!
However the side part of the motor (I think it's a large screw or baring??)
literally flew off of where it was attached from and then the belt bounced off. That was kinda exciting lol
David ended up trying to use another method to hold the belt in place
(I already forget the name of it, David if you could help me as to remember?? thanks lol)
That idea seemed to work there are some minor adjustments that need to be made to make it fit properly.

There has been some progress on the elite. I am still puzzled on the kelly controller geez.