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Re: Conversion Concept Musings
There's one area in which I fail. If the NiZn pack has it's expected life,
my car will require a new battery pack at 60,000 miles. He wants 100,000,
which would require either NiCad or NaNiCl, either of which would push the
budget up.
S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Murray" <sethm@WPI.EDU>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Conversion Concept Musings
> It has been done - look at Sheer's car (
> http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/338.html ), he's got almost exactly
> what you are asking for at the same price. He has a good donor car -
> as you said, something which seats 4, and I would say a car which can
> seem accessible to most people (ie not a Porsche). One of Victor's
> high voltage AC drives combined with a NiZn pack can provide us with
> plenty of acceleration, top end, and range (as Sheer has demonstrated,
> 100+ mph, 80+ mpc). One of Rich's PFC chargers will give us all our
> charging needs. Not to idolize Sheer and his car TOO much =) but I
> think he has done the "ultimate" conversion - he has almost exactly
> what you are looking for, right down to the heater and AC. Nowhere
> does he come up short (well, maybe acceleration??). If we pick a
> slightly newer chassis this would be a nice production conversion.
> Nice job Jon
>
> Seth
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> On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:19 AM, Lee Hart wrote:
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> > Mike Chancey wrote:
> >
> >> What kind of EV could be built to meet the following:
> >>
> >> - a total budget of $20,000, including the donor vehicle (used).
> >> - Expected service life, 10 years, 100,000 miles
> >> - Initial investment to cover all battery replacements required
> >> during service life
> >> - Able to carry 4 passengers.
> >> - range of 80 to 100 miles at highway speeds
> >> - 0-60 acceleration no more than 14 seconds fully loaded.
> >> - Able to charge from both 120 and 220 volt sources
> >> - Air conditioning and heating a must
> >> - As much as possible, this should be a "plug and play" vehicle
> >
> > Whew! You don't ask for much, do you? This would be a tough
> > specification to meet even if you included ordinary gasoline cars! :-)
> >
> > I would say that a custom-designed mass-produced EV could meet such a
> > standard. However, there is no such thing. To meet it with a hand-made
> > one-off EV would require something tricky. For example, buying some
> > conversion EV cheap, fixing it, and letting most of the $20,000 pay for
> > battery packs.
> > --
> > Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still can ring
> > 814 8th Ave. N. Forget your perfect offering
> > Sartell, MN 56377 USA There is a crack in everything
> > leeahart_at_earthlink.net That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
> >
> >
> >
> >
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