Interested in electric vehicles?

[Ryven]

http://www.evworks.com.au/Electrokhana.pdf

Saturday, 12th December 2009, 4pm to 8pm
Ever driven an electric car? Come and experience the
future of transport. Free admission for spectators,
please contact us if you wish to enter your vehicle.
BBQ and refreshments will be on sale, fundraising
for the Australian Electric Vehicle Association.

Venue:
RAC Driving Centre*
46 Grogan Road
Perth International Airport
Driver Training Perth, WA, Australia : RAC Driving Centre : DTEC : MC Motorsport : Rider Training Australia
* Note: Alcohol-free venue
Enquiries:
Contact EV Works on (08) 9353 1794 or enquiries@evworks.com.au

I have no idea about it beyond this, may be interesting for those curious...

[Tom. A. Hawk]

man, going off road in my landy would be FULLY SIK(er) with an electric motor (one for each wheel) set up!

Think we are still a long way from that though

[Ryven]

Some scooters use direct drive, but it's been a while since I've seen or heard about a car making use of four direct drive engines...

[xphread]

Cheers.

Will be there.

[Geeza]

We have an electric fork at work! its bloody awesome!

[darkfibre]

The founder of the company I work for put an electric motor in a charade.....

170kw!!!!

He did over 40,000 klms in it

Changed my mind about electric transport

[jpcw]

I've done my own conversion. A Charade. Runs but not road legal yet. Gets up to 100km/h a bit quicker than with the original engine. Only prob is I have 550kg or batteries and think I will have a bit of a problem getting it over the pits as a result.

[Melchior]

What does it cost to convert a car anyway?
Is it worth it or is it best left to the Greenies at this stage?

[Aphex]

I've done my own conversion. A Charade. Runs but not road legal yet. Gets up to 100km/h a bit quicker than with the original engine. Only prob is I have 550kg or batteries and think I will have a bit of a problem getting it over the pits as a result.

There's a few DIY electrics getting about that are registered. There's a bloke that's done and old mustang, old merc and a HZ or HJ ute. Provided your brakes & suspension are up to it, and you have a qualified engineer certify it, I don't see why it wouldn't pass.

[jpcw]

Depends on what you want and what you know. Cost me about 10k but since then I found I could have shaved quite a bit off that. Also I went way overboard on the batteries. Then again you could also spend about 15k on lithium batteries and get range up near that of a normal car.

With an EV you build it to your normal needs. I built mine to have a range of 100km per day (charge) with acceleration better than the old car (not hard with a Charade).
I could have saved a lot if I knew then what I did now , eg I spent 2k on a charger just to find out I could have used 10 separate cheap charges and got better battery life as well.

Check out this vid of an electric drag bike. Watch to the end.....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZfueVHVnkI]YouTube - Worlds Fastest Electric Bike and Owner Crash[/ame]

[jpcw]

man, going off road in my landy would be FULLY SIK(er) with an electric motor (one for each wheel) set up!

Think we are still a long way from that though

Not really. Your only prob would be weight. You would either need a lot of heavy lead acid batteries or a lot of expensive LiPo's or similar. The technology is already there just got to get the costs down a bit.

[jpcw]

There's a few DIY electrics getting about that are registered. There's a bloke that's done and old mustang, old merc and a HZ or HJ ute. Provided your brakes & suspension are up to it, and you have a qualified engineer certify it, I don't see why it wouldn't pass.

Yep been for a ride in the Mustang, that car really performs well although a mustang that quiet just seems wrong. He has a lot lighter setup than mine using LiPo or ion batteries.
I have already replaced the springs on the back but the car looks like it has really been lowered. If I fix the springs and maybe change the back drums for disks I might get away with it.

[Dawn Keeballs]

To the OP,

Not at all.

[jpcw]

If you interested in EV's check out the WA chapter of the Australian Electric Vehicle association

Australian Electric Vehicle Association - Perth Branch

or my old attempt at a website

EVAustralia > Home

[=Stevo=]

UWA are building a lotus elise converted to electric, have a friend working on the project - its pretty cool stuff

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Think about the poor blind people. If they cant hear a engine how will they know when to cross the road.

[darkfibre]

Their electric seeing eye robotic dog will help the poor blind people cross the road.

Unless its flat.

Cos it got run over.

[jpcw]

Think about the poor blind people. If they cant hear a engine how will they know when to cross the road.

That is a big myth propagated by the oil giants.

Ok little harsh but it is a lot of BS. The average modern car is VERY quite engine noise wise. The road noise of a family car is actually higher than the engine noise and an electric car sounds exactly the same. The only real time you have to worry about an electric car being too quite is when you are backing up and that is easily fixed with a simple beeper.

[Sonik]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_NYcIzySDE]YouTube - white zombie datsun 1200 electric drag car[/ame]
so much want

theres links to suppliers of all the gear for that datto off their website but like all things performance none is cheap...

Welcome to Plasma Boy Racing, home of White Zombie, the world's quickest street legal electric door slammer in the 1/4 mile drag.

[Ryven]

That car is downright awesome.

I was looking into the Chevrolet Volt again recently. Rather interesting hybrid concept there.