Hi James, I gather there have been various commercial systems for battery swapping marketed over the years. Wonder if it might be easiest to not re-invent the wheel and find a used system from somewhere? Or maybe just copy it? I think I'd start with fork lift trucks.
Hope that helps and good luck with 'pushing the envelope'. Regards, Martin Winlow. On 18 Jul 2013, at 10:10, James Massey 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)
