Saturday, April 3, 2010

OK, but did you get it running?

It was a long, arduous journey - but it is running!  All thanks to two people:

Person 1:  First and foremost, there's my Dad, Jerry who has put in probably 1000 hours over the past several months, building battery cables, hunting for parts, testing various ways to get it running, building and managing the batteries, shipping the dolphin, etc.  Too much to recount.  He has been relentless trying to get this going, even after many of us (myself included) were ready to throw in the towel.

This was quite an accomplishment - Esp. for someone who has never worked on a true electric vehicle!

Person 2:  All hail Mike Phillips, our mentor and master, to get this up and running.  There is no way on the face of the earth that we could have done it without him.  The dolphin itself had been thoroughly wrecked and abused, and Mike is perhaps the only guy on earth who could have fixed it.

In fact, in order to fix our dolphin, Mike had to solve a long-standing problem that has been affecting the entire USElectricar community for years!  Amazing.

And then on top of that, he's spent countless hours advising us over the phone, getting it up and running.


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