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Ev Archive for May 2001
1845 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:52:09 2001

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ev project components



We are planning a new ev conversion.  One of the goals
of this project are to improve on the acceleration
over our present Solar Electric Escort while keeping
the 30-40 mile range.  The plan is to stay with wet 6
Volt batteries and try to have a 120 Volt pack.  The
donor vehicle is a BMW 2002.  We would be interested
in the comments of the discussion group on the
reliability and advantages/disadvantages of the major
components (if this is in a faq somewhere, please
accept apologies and point us in the right direction):

1. motor - Advanced DC 9"  (any other reasonable
alternatives?)
2. controller - Curtis 1231C (DC Raptor?, other?)
3. 120 Volt AC input on board charger - Russco?,
Zivan?, other?
4. DC-DC - Todd PC30 (Sevcon?)

Thanks

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