Experimental electric car

Looks like to build electric car is not that difficult, nor that expensive. This car along with about 3 more was built in University of Transport in Sofia, Bulgaria - http://vtu.bg/ .

For this particular car, they used some Renault as a base, kept existing manual transmission and removed the air conditioner. The battery used in this car are "normal" lead batteries, one under the hood, and four more in the back.

The car is equipped with solar panels on the roof which are used mainly to charge the 12V car battery, but theoretically may help charging the main batteries.

Due to high price the car does not have super capacitor, nor "bust" function.

The engine without the batteries costs between 1000 and 2000 EUR.

This particular car can "travel" 100 km.

Another interesting thing is that even the transmission is manual, you usually do not change the shifts, but almost always use 3th shift. 4th shift is used on highway, and lower shifts only if road is really bad.

In additional of this car, they built some with automatic transmission and lithium-ion batteries.

Side view:


Side view:


Back side where batteries may be seen.


Under the hood - small engine, big battery

WTI

For second day WTI is over $100 mark.

Jim Rogers on CNBC 03.FEB.2011

Very interesting views from CNBC "experts" :)

Some more - CHF, AUD, WTI

This study is not that precise, nor I will use it for trading.

CHF/USD 12h

...and CHF 12h flipped :-)

because CHF is inverse chart, we flipped it.
looks like CHF made a top and now correction is under way.

AUD/USD 8h

Unlike CHF, AUD is not topped, but now it is in formation like a rectangle. However, inside the rectangle, it made lower lows (pink line).

Other currencies

CAD and GBP going nowhere and charts are not interesting for us.

Oil (WTI) - 1 day

Crude is not dynamic at all. There is formation that first may look like rectangle, but second look shows that most of the highs are higher highs - see yellow dots. Only exceptions are the two green dost. So formation is more like upper channel.

RIP Matt Simmons

Via Jesse:

Energy expert Simmons dies in North Haven
By Tux Turkel
Kennebec Journal
Matthew Simmons, an international oil expert who most recently focused on developing renewable energy from the waters off Maine, died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack, his office is reporting. He was 67.

Simmons founded the Ocean Energy Institute in 2007, hosting a grand opening of its new office last month in Rockland. The goal of the think tank and venture capital fund was to attract investment in research to make Maine a global leader in offshore wind and other ocean energy sources.

According to police reports, Simmons suffered a heart attack while in a hot tub at his home on North Haven. An autopsy is planned for today in Augusta, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

Simmons was a leading energy investment banker, a former energy adviser to President George W. Bush, and author. He wrote the 2005 book “Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy,” which laid out an argument that the world was approaching peak oil production.

Readings...

How I feel
by AntiCitizenOne
http://anti-citizen-one.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-feel.html
I feel like I've been kicked for 13 years, and I've just seen the kicker break his foot.

Jon Stewart explains Market Disruption
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CalculatedRisk/~3/1zH784Ryl_o/jon-stewart-explains-market-disruption.html
video

Gold and Oil Weekly Charts: SP 500 Bubble Deflated by Gold
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/05/gold-and-oil-weekly-charts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JessesCafeAmericain+%28Jesse%27s+Caf%C3%A9+Am%C3%A9ricain%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
very good oil and gold chart in Jesse' Babson style

2009-2010 Gold Bubble Still Just a Baby
http://timiacono.com/index.php/2010/05/12/2009-2010-gold-bubble-still-just-a-baby/
comparisson of gold prices 2005-06, 2007-08, 2009-20010

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
http://jsmineset.com/2010/05/12/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-270/

Readings

Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/09/thursday-oil-market-round-up_10.html

Obama on health care
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/obama-health-care-speech_n_281265.html
videos, also incl. the full speach

U.S. dollar reaches new low for the year
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-dollar-reaches-new-low-for-year.html

Greenspan: Another crisis is inevitable
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2009/09/greenspan-another-crisis-is-inevitable.html

China to diversify out of the USD, buy gold
http://realitylenses.blogspot.com/2009/09/china-to-diversify-out-of-usd-buy-gold.html

Another important readings

Five Reasons for the Recent Surge in Gold
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JessesCafeAmericain/~3/WOT0IL8B8tw/three-reasons-for-bull-market-and.html

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
http://jsmineset.com/2009/09/03/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-159/

Peter Schiff explains the rally in gold and silver
http://arabianmoney.net/2009/09/04/peter-schiff-explains-the-rally-in-gold-and-silver/
video

Silver, Gas, Oil & Gold Report
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/vermeulen/2009/0903.html
I believe oil chart is wrong

Gold: Separation Before Liftoff
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2009/0903.html

Big Move Coming
by Puru Saxena
http://www.safehaven.com/article-14379.htm
This one is very important!!! :-)
then check this:
http://honestmoneyreport.com/forum/index.php?topic=13500.0;topicseen

Bullish Head and Shoulders Bottom? Or, False Break Out Warning?
by J.D. Rosendahl
http://www.safehaven.com/article-14370.htm
H&S in DJIA

Marc Faber Lateline Business Interview, August 26, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XURvQpwX-90
video

Gold / Oil "bubble" develop

Today Yahoo! Finance add Gold and Oil prices on their front page. Hopefully this will make gold more aware as an investment. Strange that in same time, Kitco traffic falling (see Gold mania barometer tag)

Penn West: Distribution at Risk

http://seekingalpha.com/article/156099-penn-west-distribution-at-risk?source=yahoo

Links

SPX 60 minute chart
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BiiwiicomNotes/~3/CR-HNa6HDcc/spx-60-minute-chart.html

Treasury keeps increasing the size of its debt auctions
http://interestrateroundup.blogspot.com/2009/08/treasury-keeps-increases-size-of-its.html

Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/08/thursday-oil-market-round-up.html

Wednesday Commodities Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/08/wednesday-commodities-round-up.html

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
http://jsmineset.com/2009/08/05/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-154/

Gold, Silver, Oil and Nat Gas Technical Update
by Chris Vermeulen
August 05, 2009
http://www.safehaven.com/article-14111.htm

Readings

S&P 500 - choose your pattern
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BiiwiicomNotes/~3/WkcJSyypcdg/s-500-choose-your-pattern.html

Gold guru Jim Sinclair sees November crisis for US dollar
http://arabianmoney.net/2009/07/14/gold-guru-jim-sinclair-november-crisis-for-us-dollar/

Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/07/thursday-oil-market-round-up_16.html

S&P Head and Shoulders - Not Completed Redux
http://martinmarketreport.blogspot.com/2009/07/s-head-and-shoulders-not-completed_09.html

Videos (via ArabianMoney.Net)

Peter Schiff on minimum wage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qMDVd8z0E&feature=player_embedded

Marc Faber on gold and hyperinflation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lGpTxrAhaM&feature=player_embedded

Readings

Oil Service HOLDRS Trust (NYSE: OIH) Is Oversold
http://www.joe-duarte.com/saved_newsletters/2009_06/090624PR.html

US Approves IMF Gold Sales; What Does It Mean?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-approves-imf-gold-sales-what-does-it.html

Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aflROe0Pe0QM

Gold: Daily Bullish Reversal in the making.
http://sufiy.blogspot.com/2009/06/gold-daily-bullish-reversal-in-making.html
(I do not understand why he think it is a reversal)

Gold vending machines are a sign of the times, German inventor claims
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5575546/Gold-vending-machines-are-a-sign-of-the-times-German-inventor-claims.html
first sign of coming bubble ;-)

Links

Gold-Oil ratio
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BiiwiicomNotes/~3/jo5Q224rNYQ/gold-oil-ratio-etc.html

More Natural Gas Analysis
http://martinmarketreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-natural-gas-analysis.html

An Interview with Jim Grant
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2009/06/interview-with-jim-grant_11.html

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
http://jsmineset.com/2009/06/11/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-129/

Readings

Forex Fridays
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/06/forex-fridays.html

JimRogers On CNBC 6/4/09

Part 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjsd4hbFArM&feature=related
Part 2/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPxTP_Ms5I&feature=related
Part 3/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glcj_besuy8&feature=related
Part 4/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mttt0YYXDs&feature=related

President Obama’s message to the Middle East
http://arabianmoney.net/2009/06/07/president-obamas-message-to-the-middle-east/

Market update by Clive Maund

Silver
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13542.htm
Gold, USD
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13543.htm
Oil
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13538.htm

Readings

Just looked at latest ~200 articles in Safe Haven...

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Gold Is ...
by Adrian Ash
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13435.htm

Gold vs. the World: Top 10 Currency Update by Adrian Ash
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13502.htm

Gold, Silver and Oil on the Run Technically Speaking
by Chris Vermeulen
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13483.htm
interesting, even he sees H&S in gold... :-)

The Gold Stock Secular Bull Market
http://goldversuspaper.blogspot.com/2009/06/gold-stock-secular-bull-market.html

this is similar to mine article:
http://www.novini.net/2008/04/us-stock-market-gold-cycles-1850-2013.html

Gold, Silver, Oil, Copper, USD: End of the Run or Just the Beginning?
by Roy Martens
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13505.htm
another H&S in gold :)

Readings

Letter from a Dodge dealer
http://www.jlaforums.com/link.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fletter_from_a_dodge_dealer.html

Gold - Enough w/ the Inverted H&S already
http://biiwii.blogspot.com/2009/05/gold-enough-w-inverted-h-already.html

Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/05/thursday-oil-market-round-up_21.html

Fed considered more asset purchases
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2009/05/fed-considered-more-asset-purchases.html

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
http://jsmineset.com/2009/05/21/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-120/

Gold shows signs of breaking out above $1,000
http://arabianmoney.net/2009/05/22/gold-shows-signs-of-breaking-out-above-1000/

PWE

This I did earlier today.

Readings

A little HUI micro-management (60 min. chart)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BiiwiicomNotes/~3/V9Z7rwGjIb4/little-hui-micro-management-60-min.html

Deflation? You're joking!
http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2009/04/deflation-youre-joking.html
posting because a chart from Zeal...

At last, China announces it's been buying Gold
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RealityLenses/~3/-qvx8YkG1D0/at-last-china-announces-its-been-buying.html

Thursday Oil Market Round-Up
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/04/thursday-oil-market-round-up_30.html

Forex Fridays
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2009/04/forex-fridays_24.html
USD, old post, but long term

Jim Rogers on Swine Flu/Commodities
http://www.thefinancialtube.com/video/3173/Jim-Rogers-on-Swine-FluCommodities
video

Peter Schiff video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7TfRGY5Zk&feature=player_embedded
video in NYC

Gold, Silver, USD Market Update
by Clive Maund
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13198.htm
and
http://www.safehaven.com/article-13197.htm

Icelanders have NOT voted for EU membership
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/04/27/icelanders_have_not_voted_for_eu_membership

RXR.V update

Some time ago, I wrote
Posibility for speculative arbitrage with Penn West

Here you are updated calculation:

RXR.V     =  1.63 CAD x 8   = 13.04 CAD
PWT-UN.TO = 13.39 CAD + div = 13.01 CAD
                             -------
                 Difference: ~ 0.23%

This means that at the moment the speculation is not very good. I believe is because Penn West cut the dividend, and also the possibility of the buy deal is much greater than month ago.

Anyway, will I'm keep watching it :-)