The Similarly Stimulated Saturn

EV Components has gone out of business and has my money for the Thundersky batteries and the Elithion BMS.

The LiFePo4 Thundersky 160ah batteries are ordered from EV Components(added note: They are now bankrupt!!!). They should arrive in late April.

BMS Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles running Lithium Batteries

Some requirements:

Here are some price comparisons for Lithium-ion Polymer batteries of the LiFePo4 Iron safe type suitable for FEV full electric vehicles. Cheapest is not required but does not hurt.

I am about to purchase batteries to replace my 18 Exide 8 volt lead-acid deep cycle batteries since they are no longer usable.(6 miles distance) The following is a list I have compiled of manufactur

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2009 Summary of The Similarly Stimulated Saturn (Alternative Energy Saturn)
* Starting Odometer showed 174280
* At the end of 2009 Odometer showed 182073
* Driven 7793 Electric Miles

Had a problem with the Quick Charger 240 volt charger. It hung up one or two nights, charging 180 volts, instead of showing the percentage charged, it had locked up showing F2.

I have not done any news articles on this site but I really enjoyed this article by "The Economist"
September 3rd, 2009.

California Energy Commission (CEC) DATABASE