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Steve’s Wooden Vectrix

Jan 02, 2023No Comments

This beautiful custom scooter really impressed me as soon as I saw it. As you can imagine, Steve is a experienced wooden boat builder, and

My absolute nightmare buying a Lithium Batt...

Jan 01, 20232 Comments

I thought I would save a few dollars on getting a 5kWh LifePo4 battery for my wife’s off grid home. Little did I know that

Soldering vs Crimping vs Connectors for DIY...

Dec 28, 2022No Comments

2 weeks ago I had an incident with my hot water heater where it starting melting the plastic connectors and insulation and filling the house

Dan’s 1967 Honda CA160 conversion

Dec 10, 2022No Comments

I’ve always loved vintage conversions to electric power. Dan is located in Kansas, and one day he showed his wife some pictures of motorcycles to

Charging an Electric Car with a 4kW Off Gri...

Jul 14, 20222 Comments

18 months ago I bought a Chevy Bolt for about 1/2 off sticker price. The Bolt has been awesome with the sole exception that I

Charging Your Ebike batteries with a Variab...

Jul 04, 20222 Comments

Here is an article that you will absolutely never see on any other normal ebike blog site. For the last year or so I have

Kevin’s Suzuki DR650, QS motor with 5...

Jul 17, 20213 Comments

Kevin lives in a very hilly part of Georgia, and he just completed this conversion of a Suzuki DR650 from gas to electric. That by

Agnius’ DIY longtail cargobike, from ...

Jun 20, 20211 Comment

Agnius is from Lithuania, and he is best known for developing the N.E.S.E. battery pack building system. He recently build a longtail cargobike frame from

Adam’s Black Panther, with BBSHD Ludi...

May 29, 20213 Comments

So this is a multi-part build report on my latest ebike project. I’ll start with a quick history, hit on the highlights of the build

Building a safe high-amp battery pack from ...

May 10, 20212 Comments

The methods used to build a battery pack from cylindrical cells are fairly well known, but pouch cells don’t seem to have a decent article