We make electric cars a reality.

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The Engineering

The Components

  • Heating & AC Systems
  • Battery Management Systems
  • Dashboard Computer
  • Battery Charger
  • Batteries

The Conversions

Welcome to Electric Blue Motors

We engineer and manufacture the components at the heart of electric car conversions. That inside knowledge has also given us the ability to convert almost any kind of gas-powered vehicle to electric. What's more, our engineering skills have created efficiencies that allow us to offer our products and services at remarkably affordable prices.

What's New at Electric Blue:
December 29, 2009
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Specials

Winter is here! Electric Blue has solutions for heating your car in the winter.

Our Blue Heat provides hot water that can be circulated through the existing heater core in your car's dash board. The existing heater controls will then work as they were intended. The Blue Heat requires 120V AC, which can be provided by our Blue Flash inverter. Normally, the Blue Heat sells for $375 and the Blue Flash sells for $449. Save $75.00 when you buy both during our November special.

We recently became a distributor for Elite Power Solutions. We are offering their Lithium Iron Phosphate cells, which are comparable to Thundersky, for 20% off retail. To make a sweet deal even sweeter, if you buy 20 or more, we will throw in free shipping! For a given capacity, these cells are 75% lighter and 50% smaller than an equivalent lead acid cell. When replacing lead acid, you can use a lithium cell 60% of the capacity and get the same range. For example, if you want to replace a 100AH lead acid battery, you only need 60AH to get the same range. This is due to the Peukert effect. For more information, please see Tech Talk #1 about this on the General Info page. Information on our lithium batteries is on the product page. All the batteries we sell are in stock.

Product Updates

We have had very good response to our Blue Window dashboard computer. But its 200V maximum input voltage was a problem for people using 240V or even 330V batteries. So, we have a new version that will operate at 400V. It has slightly different components and software to handle the high voltage. Pricing is the same as the 200V model.

New Products

When you use lithium batteries, you need to carefully manage their charge level. Because the amount of power you get from the battery is limited by the cell with the least amount of charge. We have some new products that can help with this.

Battery balancers will balance the charge in each cell. They do this by putting a small load on a cell when the voltage rises above 3.7V. The normal cell operating voltage is 3.2V, so there is only a load placed when the cell is charging. The balancer will bring the charge level down to a known point after a few charge cycles. This will assure that all the cells get to the same amount of charge.

A battery monitoring system (BMS) looks at each cell voltage and temperature and alerts you when one or more are out of spec. We call our BMS the Blue View. It consists of two parts: a Computer and a monitoring sender for each cell. The computer outputs composite video which can be displayed on a monitor or DVD player. You get a summary page which shows an overview of the battery system including Volts, Amps, and how much capacity is available in the battery. There are also detail pages which show each call voltage and temperature. The system will accept 256 cells. There is one sender for each cell in the battery. They are wired with ordinary 4 conductor telephone wire. There is no addressing of the senders and the same wire goes to each one. This makes the wiring very easy. The senders will operate from 2.5V to 18V which will accommodate most battery types.

New Faces

Patty Gross joined us in October. She is our new Account Manager and is responsible for sales and customer service. Patty is a true renaissance woman. She is long time car buff and is actively involved with a couple of classic car clubs. When weather permits, you will see riding her motorcycle or driving her '66 VW bug. She is also a professional musician and singer. One of her greatest virtues is patience. This is most evident when she is teaching the staffers here how to play the piano. Whether you need advice about components, installation, or music, she is here for you. But be warned, her laughter is contagious!

University Sponsorship

Electric Blue Motors is sponsoring 4 electrical engineering students at Northern Arizona University, Nicholas Negrete, Jeremy King, Christine Kuhlman, and Daniel Eichenberger in their senior Captone project to convert a Land Rover to Electric. We are providing the facility, equipment and guidance for their project. They are also sponsored by Northern Arizona University, Arizona Public Service (our local electric company), Universal Power Group (batteries) and Highway 85 Graphics. As part of their project, they will be designing their own DC motor controller which may become a future Electric Blue product. Their design will be smaller and significantly less expensive than similar controllers on the market. For more information, visit their website: http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Research/D4P/EGR486/EE/10-Projects/motor/.