It's so good to hear from you Steve. I too will turn 70 in a few weeks and now build camper vans for various people. People do want to build things (actually they dream of it) and I listen to their wants, and then design and build it. People like you created to desire for electric vehicles.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 7:21 AM Steve Clunn via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hello Ryan > I still get the list and read it from time to time but I haven't posted in > a while. As I'm almost 70 now I do a lot of reflecting back to when I > started my EV adventure with golf cart batteries and a Curtis controller. > Things have changed a lot over the years we can now get an amp hour meter > for less than 100 bucks when back in the golf cart battery days you meter > was close to 300. I remember when AC motors were an expensive dream and now > seem to be cheaper than DC brush motor and controller setups. Looking back > it should be easy to see tipping points at some point it was not > cost-worthy to build an electric car compared to buying one. Still people > today like to build things and they're certainly is enough salvage parts > from all the new EVs out there that one can cobble something together. > Today anything home made is compared with a Tesla pricewise and performance > wise. Steve Clunn > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230117/20f5468b/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -- "We admit that we are like apes, but we never realize that we are apes" - Charles Darwin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230223/b80d100c/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
