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
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:19 AM, Lee Hart wrote:
> 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.
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