Karmann Eclectric

Dear Abandoned Accolytes, or would that be Karmenndable Eclectrolytes? Yes indeed, the Range Trailer was revealed last summer on Greenwood, ...

Hard to believe it's been 9 months since we dragged Eleanore's mossy remains over to Tom's garage, but what a difference that ma...

 I haven’t posted about our trusty Mitsubishi. i-MiEV in quite a while, because the little toasters just keep on toasting!  That’s right I u...

Only the most dedicated Karmann Eclectricians will have any recollection of Eleanore, the moss-covered wreck of a '67 Karmann Ghia coupe...

The Karmann Eclectric has been rather dismayed by shallow and fawning media coverage of Ford's upcoming F150 Lightning, as most of it cl...

 Five years ago we adopted a 1983 Mazda RX-7 conversion and drove the last life out of its last lead-acid battery pack.  That 1120+ lbs of a...

As MR BEAN approaches his 100,000 mile jubilee, his battery at 96k is finally showing some age, with  sub-62 mile mornings beginning to show...

The Tiny Solar Trackside Garage made its debut this weekend at the Tahaleh community's Earth Day Every Day EVent.  Myself and several ot...

Got them modules mounted!  Feast your eyes on 1890 Watts of Sanyo HiT, with three more solar modules still to add as an awning. Though I...

Hitting a milestone of sorts, as this is the 101st entry on the Karmann Eclectric blog.  I'm mounting one solar module at a time as weat...

Except for a couple of corner details, the standing seam roofing job is complete.  Thanks go out to Haley and Justin at Metal Roof Specialti...

Body in White is the term TESLA uses for the finished aluminum weldment of a car body before any other bits have been added on.  Today's...

Well, a sensible tiny home builder would've put on a coat of paint or two before the rains returned to Western Washington, but I spent ...

I'm not the busy EVangelist that I used to be, but did make two NDEW EVents in the past week; Steilacoom and the XXX Drive-In in Issaqua...

The tiny home/warehouse/garage project is moving right along as evening times allow, and the shape is now recognizable to all! Now for a ...

The Tiny House movement has grown into a full-on bubble, with folks paying upwards of $60k for an 8' wide by 16' to 24' long cot...

A multi-pronged pack design strategy paid off, and in the end we didn't get any finished CAD drawings, but a simple re-stacking of block...

I've tried to inform GM that myself and others will have no interest in the Bolt until they announce and demonstrate a commitment to gro...

No, it's not a crime under Napoleonic Code, it is what we managed to do la st week, and it is much easier than posting rotated photos on...

The LEAF battery packs are a wonderfully compact kit, with an interesting mix of fragile and overly beefy componentry.  We've now broken...

Lovin' Life with LEAF salvage, that is.  The two collision-salvage battery packs arrived this week, as did the prototype Wolftronix LEAF...

'twas disappointing to see a short in the motor after rebuild, but perhaps that could be explained.  The controller label still wasn...

Today was hoped to be a milestone, as we were all set to install the replacement motor in the Grumman, and also completed re-soldering of a ...

Watch those wayward thoughts- this is a family-friendly blog! This particular electric orange is a Smithco Sand Star E-Plus from 1996. Smi...