Battery Vehicle Society

You are so right Chris. I went for a ride in one of these new Indy electric cars the other day. Insurance meant that I could only drive it on the airfield. You know what? It's miles behind the Blingo. Much more sluggish & funnily enough, much noisier. The brakes were abysmal after the Blingo pow...

Is there any "easy" way of checking these connectors? Or! as I suspect. Does it entail lowering the battery packs from under the vehicle? Not a job for this time of year I admit, & as I did my last maintenance top up in November I'm inclined to wait for warmer times anyway. Took mine o...

Thanks Jeremy. I did the fatal flaw, "assumed" about the distilled water, due to my own ignorance on the subject. Yeah I know it's all there if I look for it. But like so many others, I tend to only concentrate on something different when I'm in the pooh. I'm happy with your explanation wh...

Although I charge my Blingo every night with the subsequent generation of heat, I wonder if anyone can re-assure me regarding the perils, if any, of freezing temperatures on the SAFT batteries. I can see no references to such temps in the handbook & given that there is no acid present, just dist...

Hello Nightrain. I will ask Roger (the Boffin) first, out of common good manners. If he is happy with it, I will give you his details so that you have no need to go via me etc; etc; My tel is 07702604120. Give me a couple of days to contact him. I am rather up to the proverbials at the moment so be ...

The other day a man walked up the road after me & introduced himself. He was very interested in my Blingo, as he had seen the sign in the back window saying "electric vehicle" (regen braking & all that) He is a retired university electronics professor, who is now working for HM gov...

Hello again. I fully endorse Chris Bs reply. My Blingo does everything I ask of it "& that is the crunch." If you want to go 70 mph plus for hundreds of miles, then of course the EV is not for you. However, as a retired person who does not have the daily commute, (which my Blingo would...

Hello boys & girls. I live in Lichfield just two miles from the Zytec factory where they produce the electric Smart Car. The other day I was stopped at the side of the road just down the lane from there, talking to a mate who had been coming the other way. A nice young man in a "green"...

So come on Chris B. Tell me more about this pulse pin & connectors. Although my heater has only failed start up once, I am always intrigued about other options. With the colder mornings I am using mine most days now & I have to say the lagging seems to have worked. Certainly does not cause m...

Sorry! I meant right hand side. JC.