Making my own electric car.....
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big2bird
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SmokeyVette
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I think it can work, especially if it's basically a shell of a car with the batteries and running gear.
Just so y'all know, this is the type of generator I was talking about.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html?series=37
If you have enough of them, it just might work...
Just so y'all know, this is the type of generator I was talking about.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html?series=37
If you have enough of them, it just might work...
SIXFOOTER
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Why not start out with a Golf Cart and just Pimp it out?
Taller wheels from a motorcycle or something, bigger motor maybe, add in the curtains for weather if they didn't come with.
Virtually all the engineering done, might need to play with the gearing a bit.
Seems to me that converting a regular car (even a saturn) it would still be carrying a lot of weight and mass you don't need, just a guess. Interesting thread, something I have concidered several times, like everytime I gas up my truck.
For the running around local, groceries, small stuff at HD, maybe out to dinner close by it would be great.
For the highway it might be scary tho.
The PV cells and even the wind turbin off a sailboat would still work
Taller wheels from a motorcycle or something, bigger motor maybe, add in the curtains for weather if they didn't come with.
Virtually all the engineering done, might need to play with the gearing a bit.
Seems to me that converting a regular car (even a saturn) it would still be carrying a lot of weight and mass you don't need, just a guess. Interesting thread, something I have concidered several times, like everytime I gas up my truck.
For the running around local, groceries, small stuff at HD, maybe out to dinner close by it would be great.
For the highway it might be scary tho.
The PV cells and even the wind turbin off a sailboat would still work
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mrvette
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Well, around Clay Co. FLORIDA where I live, they seem relatively lax about golf carts of secondary roads, but NEVER have I seen one on a major road, even crossing a major road....
so the issue is to have something that is street legal, and therefore you can drive the damn thing without problems....couse in a state like Kalifornia, or Faryland where they are super anal about things, you would have problems at some 'inspection' station.....they probably would find a way to take the tags, bet on it.....:shocking:
so then the use of a lightweight CAR as a starting platform makes more sense , to me anyway....
much less the thing is allready designed....by the time all that gas engine oriented crap is outta there, I bet there is enough room for most ANY drivetrain concept....much less at nearly 1/2 the weight...
big2bird
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Yep. No tags for golf carts in Kalifornia. Must meet DOT safety standards, and be able to cruise above 35MPH.
That Gem car, Iacoca's do da, is street legal, but only allowed on side streets.
That Gem car, Iacoca's do da, is street legal, but only allowed on side streets.
turtlevette
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mrvette
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MY target price is 1/6 the only price I spotted there at 12 grand....
it is impossible to anyone to make, distribute, sell, pay the light bill, and warrenty ANY damn car in this country for less than ten grand.....
were as I can MAKE one that's just as good for way far less....
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big2bird
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Bad link :quote::quote:
SIXFOOTER
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Thats a golf cart with a fancy shell on it
Gene, you may be onto something, but I think there may be better choices than a Saturn: Suzuki Samarui, Swift, (whats them small jeep looking things?)
big2bird
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I have an old Trooper in my driveway with a sawzall in the waiting.:nuts:
turtlevette
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it has a top speed of 75 mph so its much more than a golf cart. There's a lot of technology in these little things.
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kwplot34
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I have one of those gas scooters with the weed eater motor on it that you stand up on in the garage,it will run 45mph,the mpg,not sure,but it goes a long ways. Might sell it for gas money.
enkeivette
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Turtle beat me to it, unless you could get the car around 1K lbs or use two golf cart motors, don't think it'll go.
You said your neighbor did it? How fast do his cars go?
I've been thinking about converting to propane or natural gas injection. I've seen a 500hp C3 powered on propane. I really have no idea what's involved though. Can I make a 600hp (maybe 800 in the near future) run on natural gas?! Another thing that would be cool about that, it would be smog exempt.
You said your neighbor did it? How fast do his cars go?
I've been thinking about converting to propane or natural gas injection. I've seen a 500hp C3 powered on propane. I really have no idea what's involved though. Can I make a 600hp (maybe 800 in the near future) run on natural gas?! Another thing that would be cool about that, it would be smog exempt.
mrvette
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My neighbor has two regular golf carts, I was looking at them to get the concept down abut the machinery etc....never messed with one so I didn't have any clue expect that they were battery powered....my initital thought was a motor on each axel, front and rear....instead two motors one on eash SIDE in the REAR only....
I can easily get small BBQ size propane tanks, but have no clue how long that would last for any ICE useage....even a lawnmower engine....
besided, propane has allmost doubled in price around here too....12 bux to near 20 bux on a BBQ cylinder....
Cherry
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Talk about propane injection, question: using propane, place a NOS adapter under the carb and use a propane pressure regulator to control the amout of propane being injected. Seems to me if N.O can be inject by that method ,why can't propane do the same.
big2bird
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Uh,no. They already make conversion kits for this.
Cherry
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mixing the two fuels at the same time?
Cherry
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Was thinking, "bad thing to say here", anyway,, What happen to the Subrau Bratt, that motor would be perfect for Gene's project car, it got 50 mile to the gallon, Haven't seen one in years?
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Why not just drive a golf cart?
mrvette
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They not street legal, not weathertite, no lights for the most part,
and the cops will tag hell outta one on any major street, as I noted above....
40 mph is adequate, not on the interstate freeways, obviously, but around town and in business districts for the mile or two from my house I travel....WTF, it would work fine.....I understand the golf carts can do 72 holes of golf before it noticeable slows down.....that FOUR rounds at 18 holes with fresh batteries.....hummmmm....now the G carts can do maybe 20 mph...but with two motors, and twice the wheel diameter.....40 should be attainable...not that I"d drive it all THAT far......
I be in the slo lane getting cussed at for sure.....
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big2bird
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Uh............no.
big2bird
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No way. You really think that? :lol::lol:
mrvette
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But the thing should take off nicely, anyway....get some skinney tires, I maybe able to spin them even yet.....:yahoo::yahoo::shocking:
turtlevette
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i'll be able to walk faster than this thing. You ever see Mr. Beans holiday?
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Worried about gas? Here ya go!
...I've seen Turtle driving one of these before. His life partner was on the back.
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...I've seen Turtle driving one of these before. His life partner was on the back.
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turtlevette
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Worried about gas? Here ya go!
...I've seen Turtle driving one of these before. His life partner was on the back.
you were not on the back. That's a lie bitch.:lol:
SmokeyVette
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Propane must remain pressurized, you can't just vent it under the carb.
SmokeyVette
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Yeah, we use a three-wheeled model on the larger job sites that we are on. It usually lasts about a week of being driven across the job sites for most of the day each day, usually it gets noticeably slower around the third day.
But that golf cart only does around 25, I'm not sure how you are going to get it to do 40 with MORE weight, unless you use a transmission, but if it's loaded down by a tranny, it will go through the charges faster.
It CAN be done though, people are running 7 and 8 second 1/4 mile passes with home-built electric cars so I know that it can be done.
Even though I hate to say this, I have to agree with Turtle here, a small car like a smart car or something of that nature would be best.
Come to think of it, you could use a '77 'vette, your electric design will probably have about the same amount of power as Turtle's engine, and Turtle's car can do what, 50 maybe even 60 mph?!?!
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