Hi there,sounds like a great event. To help swapping over cells some sort of simple docking would be required. Unlike the Tesla system where they rise up out of the floor, perhaps a slide in,slide out box mounted in rear of car would be nice. Guide rails and mating connectors would be fairly simple to do. Clip on wheels carried in car would help with moving the cells to be a single person job. I envisage a quick change over with only a couple of locking pins to release the cells. With good logistics ie support vehicle you could have a very viable race car. I wish you all the luck in the world, keep us posted.
Sent from my iPad On 18 Jul 2013, at 10:10, "James Massey" <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day All > > I have been invited to assist in the build-up of a vehicle that will be > entered in Targa Tasmania (road-rally touring race), at present I have very > little information, but as it stands their plan is: 1970s Datsun (he > mentioned the model, but I forget already). They have the cage in the car > already, and continue to prepare the non-EV systems. DC motor, lithium > batteries. > > At this point the plan all became a little vague, other than they plan on > using large-format cells, Thunder-Sky or similar. > > I'm leaning towards recommending they use a battery-swapping arrangement, two > or three lighter packs and one or two swaps instead of one larger pack, as > Targa includes some significant travel stages as well as the race stages. a > "refuel" at the start of the race stages coupled with a lighter pack could be > significant. > > Open to all ideas and opinions, but keep in mind that they are a low-budget > race team, so looking for enough performance with minimum dollars spent, > rather than maximum performance. > > Thanks > > Regards > > [Technik] James > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
