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Sounds great. I hope they will be available with tabs - I don't do welding. Mace

"if you could fly an autonomous vehicle to the store to pickup a loaf of bread for you, instead of a car, it might be in the spirit of ES" Amen.

Updated data file: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtP_9hkP9H1DdEVQUGVjajlYVXctWmJYLWRVMnNTMUE&hl=en&authkey=CMXE0IgI Larry

Big Dummy with Xlite 5304 front, 36-72 V 48 amp controller, 16S1P 20Ah Thundersky (eLite) Li-ion battery Limited by age and asthma, but wanting to continue biking (including shopping), I've been experimenting with electrics for the past few years. This is a report on my Big Dummy. It can be a...

In coming years the limited amount of easily mined lithium may become a deterrent to EV development, if lithium batteries remain crucial. Though there is a vast reservoir in seawater, they say extracting lithium from the seas is prohibitively expensive. A better alternative may be geothermal...

From earth2tech, http://earth2tech.com/ : "Pull The Plug!: A new blog called This Week In Batteries, run by Venkat Srinivasan, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) recently launched and is providing fascinating...

Read these, wept. In search of Lithium: The battle for the 3rd element: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... ement.html The Trouble with Lithium 2: http://www.meridian-int-res.com/Project ... oscope.pdf Larry

JCG wrote, about the torque arm struggle: "if this thing manages to fail again, I quit! " PLEASE don't quit! We have so much to learn from you and your project. It's so sad, with all you've accomplished on electric matters, that this mechanical thing is giving you so much frustration...

Ditto! Logging someday? Larry

Justin, I was away from an internet connection, so missed the wonderful day when you arrived in Halifax. But "Cheers from Halifax, -Justin" , even though read a couple of days after the event, brought tears to my eyes. Congratulations, Justin!

Justin, I was away from an internet connection, so missed the wonderful day when you arrived in Halifax. But "Cheers from Halifax, -Justin" , even though read a couple of days after the event, brought tears to my eyes. Congratulations, Justin!

Marvellous, Justin! I covered, or paralleled, a small part of the beginning of your trip in 1982: Anacortes, San Juans, Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Harrison Hot Springs, Anacortes. Wish I'd had electric then! I plan to get a 5304 for my next bike. Apparently, you've had no problems with it...

Marvellous, Justin! I covered, or paralleled, a small part of the beginning of your trip in 1982: Anacortes, San Juans, Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Harrison Hot Springs, Anacortes. Wish I'd had electric then! I plan to get a 5304 for my next bike. Apparently, you've had no problems with it...

My simple rules of thumb, based on my experience and the suggestions of others (I recognize that different folks will have different ways of solving problems, or differing priorities): Before starting out on a trip, be sure the pack is fully charged, and have a good idea how much of the pack's...

Thanks for that Rassy! Maybe it's not such a good idea to put a 5305 on the front wheel of an EZ-3 USX. Larry