Battery Powered Vehicles

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Welcome to Battery Powered Vehicles.  A battery powered vehicle is an alternative fuel automobile that uses electric motors and motor controllers for propulsion, in place of more common propulsion methods such as the internal combustion engine.

Battery powered vehicles are specifically a variety of electric vehicle created or adapted for use on the road. Electric cars are commonly powered by on-board battery packs, and as such are battery electric vehicles. Other on-board energy storage methods that are expected to come into use in the future include ultra capacitors, fuel cells, and a spinning flywheel which stores kinetic energy.

Electric cars have traditionally used series wound DC motors, a form of brushed DC electric motor. More recent electric vehicles have made use of a variety of AC motor types, as these are simpler to build and have no brushes that can wear out. These are usually induction motors or brushless AC electric motors  which use permanent magnets.

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Cape Girardeau’s Electric Car Festival 2011

www.evtv.me In September of 2011, 140 Electric Vehicle Conversion enthusiasts and 28 vehicles gathered in Cape Girardeau Missouri for nearly a week of educational sessions, shopwork, autocross and drag races, car shows, and general EV mayhem in what many describe as the best EV convention ever held. We are announcing the dates for the 2nd Annual version of Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention – the EVCCON 2012 for September 26-30. Many of the events will again be held at the hangar at the Cape Girardeau Airport, but the sessions and vendor floor will be in Cape’s own 32000 square foot Show-Me Center Arena. We are making provisions for as many as 800 attendees and 100 cars.