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When driving to Bel Air the 118 freeway was a parking lot. Travel speeds were anywhere from 0-6mph. Driving in slow traffic like this is where EVs shine even brighter! Efficiency increases the slower you go.
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| Check out all the SCION xBs...soon to be reborn as fabulous eBoxes! | eBox holding pen! | Great eBox car cover! | |
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| A Chinese electric scooter. | Orange eBox on charge. | Milbank RV power outlet panel. | |
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| Great new NEMA 14-50P plug with handle! | A "black" trim eBox! Awesome! | "Black" exhaust cutout cover. | AC Propulsion logo trimmed wheel covers. |
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| Front grill ACP logo. | |||
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| Orange eBox display prior to driving off (ignore the whr/mi). | Leaving ACP at 1:13PM. Orange eBox has 7786 miles on its odometer. | Resetting the A and B trip meters to 0.0 miles. | |
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| Another shot of the eBox data. | Observe the excellent new rear brake light LED indicator. | The brake light LED indicator activates whenever the brake pedal is pushed or when the eBox is decelerating due to regen alerting those behind that the eBox is slowing. | Yet another shot of the eBox display waiting for a red light to turn green to enter the 57 freeway. |
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| Arriving at home. | eBox data display upon arriving at home. I drove with the "fast" SoCal flow of traffic and with the air conditioning on (amounts to a minor 0.7kwhr per hour). Note higher 303 whr/mi when driven (fast). 52.1 amphours consumed over 58.5 miles. | Charging the eBox. | Charge complete and ready for RAN.org. |
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| Data display after charging and prior to driving off. | Resetting trip A counter to 0.0 miles. | Pix of the eBox in the driveway. A neighbor walked by and was in awe of the fact the eBox is all electric (no emissions, silent, and fast). | |
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| The eBox definitely has style! | |||
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| A pic of the data display after having descended a hill just after leaving. Note I traveled almost a mile with only 0.1 amphour consumed. The power of regen! | Crazy traffic on the 118 around 5PM. | Seriously insane traffic. I was traveling anywhere from 0-6mph all the way to the 405. | Gasoline semi. |
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| Note the low 173whr/mi when traveling more slowly. | Crawling on West Sunset Blvd into Bel Air. | ||
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| West Sunset Blvd is virtually a standstill parking lot close to 6PM. Everyone idling and polluting in their ICE cars. Insane. | Everyone should be driving EVs. | eBox Data Display upon arriving at the Bel Air home of Lawrence Bender hosting the RAN.org event. Note 31.4 miles traveled at only 189 whr/mi and 16.4 amp hours of capacity consumed. | |
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| Initially parking out front close to the driveway entry. | "NOT SUV" | ||
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| New display controller wheel/knob. | New ACP data log display housing and Drive-Neutral-Reverse selector. The D-N-R LEDs are more visibly red (backlit and spaced further away). The selector switch appears much more robust. | ||
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| Powered By AC Propulsion! (AC150Gen2 Drivetrain) |
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| A ZENN (25mph max) NEV arrives. | Nicole from EnvironmentalMotors.com driving the ZENN. | ||
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| ZENN window mounted specifications sheet. | We park and display the EVs (eBox, RAV4EV, and ZENN) on the driveway entrance. Everyone entering walks by the EVs with plenty of interest and discussion. | ||
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| Howard's "Electron" Toyota RAV4EV. | eBox brochures under the right windshield wiper for interested RAN attendees. | Attendees begin arriving. ZENN on the left, RAV4EV and eBox parked side by side on the right. | |
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| Richard Kelly and his wife Kelli Kelly. Richard owns a very exclusive S10 EV (only a handful were ever made I believe with EV1 drivetrains). | Chelsea Sexton, David Freeman, Howard Stein, and Linda Nicholes. | Chelsea Sexton, David Freeman, Stefano Paris, Kelli and Richard Kelly, and Howard Stein. | Howard and Linda. Future eBox owners? |
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| Kelli, Richard, Linda, and Howard. | Linda, Stefano, and Alexandra. | Daryl Hannah goes for a ride in the eBox after the RAN.org event. | Data display prior to heading home and after taking a spin with Daryl Hannah, Kelly, and another interested gentleman (Tom). |
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| Data display upon arriving home. 63.2 miles total roundtrip, 49.6 amphours consumed, and 268 whr/mi. The trip home is uphill and not worrying about range I drove more sveltly. | Main Data display. | Display screen #2. | |
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| Voltage and temperature data display screen #3. | Menu display. | Battery parameters screen. | Since there is no rush I reset the charge line current to 30amps. |
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| Charging for the trip back tomorrow morning. |
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| eBox fully charged and ready for the drive to ACP in San Dimas. | Data display prior to taking off. | Data display boot screen and AC Propulsion logo. | For fun I pulled into the Shell Gas Station to take this shot of the eBox flaunting itself besides the rising gas prices sign. |
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| eBox arrives at AC Propulsion. | Some more fun AC Propulsion eBox pix.. | Data display upon arrival at ACP. Drive was done with air conditioning running and with the higher freeway speeds. Pretty reasonable 278 whr/mi considering minimal concern for trying to conserve amphours. | |
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| Adding the 300 miles driven during the last eBox loan, a couple of miles from the First Peek eBox demo last August, and these 180.5 miles, I have had the privilege to log approximately 480 eBox EV miles to date!!! |