Welcome back! It seems our baby already has a name – Kelli! (see license plates in photos) The most pressing issue right now is getting the vehicle into the garage as winter is approaching and working outside in winter in Illinois would simply be madness. Despite sticky breaks on the rear wheels we were able […]

Welcome to part 1 of what I hope will be a very interesting project – converting a gasoline vehicle to an electric vehicle (EV)! New registrants of EVs including both battery electric and plug-in hybrids increased by 70% between 2014 and 2015. Recognizing this market trend, myself and a pair of like-minded energy-enthusiastic graduate students, […]