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Blog

The Production Blog: We have a production blog which you can locate by clicking here. In it you will find the latest production information that even your dealer may not know. This can be especially handy when we are struggling with long lead times and you are wondering what is holding up production.

Media

Otmar3/26/08: EV World published an audio interview with Cafe Electric founder Otmar Ebenhoech. It covers history of the Zilla design, issues involved in building controllers, difficulties with regenerative braking and some advice for conversions. This podcast requires a EV World subscription in order to tune in. You probably will want to subscribe to EV World anyway for all the other EV news that is well covered there.

Atricle

9/30/07: The local newspaper, Corvallis Gazette Times, ran a short article on my electric car. You can download a copy by clicking on the image to the right.

Zombie5/1/07: Car and Driver published an excellent article on drag racing featuring John Wayland from Portland, Oregon, and his White Zombie race car. There were small appearances by a number of other EV notables including myself. Click on the image to see it on the C&D site.

We also saved some high resolution pages which you can download here: Page 1 Page 2

3/18/07: My friends at Peak Moment Television released an interview with me that was taped in June of 2006. At 20 minutes it takes some time, but I like how it turned out. You can watch it by clicking on the image.

Copies of the show can also be bought on VHS or DVD from Peak Moment Television . Look for episode #52.