Cafe Electric Information

Cafe Electric llc is a small manufacturing company located in Corvallis, Oregon. Our mission includes enabling the hobbyist and small manufacturer to build on-road freeway capable electric vehicles (EVs) of ever increasing quality and integration. The nature of our products and expertise is not appropriate for low speed electric vehicles such as bicycles, NEVs, go-carts, etc. By enabling the hobbyist we promote EVs in general, especially at times when the "Big 3" maintain that such things can not be practically done. We do our best to enable our customers by designing, developing, manufacturing and selling electronic devices that improve the safety and performance of EVs while still being affordable and available to common persons converting their own cars. At this time our range of electronic devices covers only motor controllers and the interfaces for them, but we have several more projects in the works. Enabled by our ongoing obsession with overall business efficiency, we strive to balance the ratio of results to cost. We feel that by doing this we can offer these low volume manufactured components at a much lower cost than could be possible in a traditional company that is concerned with getting return on their R&D investments and large overhead. We do some other things differently. Many of you will notice that we have a policy of not using the telephone to communicate with customers except in very rare cases. If you leave a phone message, we will listen to it but do not expect a reply. All communication for sales and support is performed through the web and email. This means that if you want a reply to a voice message (we do have a voice mail number), you'll at least have to email us your email address. This policy is a result of our striving for efficiency of the company. As enjoyable as it can be to speak with customers at length on the phone, we found that most of our phone time was spent on subjects that were not relevant to the products we were supporting or selling. The surprise was how much time ...