We were hiking in England last week, and I saw a 2004 Smart Roadster. Beautiful car. Gets close to 50 mpg. I thought, "when I get home, that's going to be my next conversion." But my dreams were dashed: the car isn't legal for US streets. I even contacted some Registered Importers and the DOT itself, but alas it's a no-go. I saw a couple people in Europe who have done them. So if anyone on the list from Great Britain, Europe, Australia or Mexico ever converts one, at least I could salivate over yours.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of jerry freedomev via EV Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:03 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Hybrid Mustang: AC or DC? Ben, A Ghia EV using lithium batteries and some aero, drag reduction can go 240 miles or so on a Leaf battery pack. Pervious ones done this way used about 100wthrs/mile on lead batteries. Or one of the many kitcars, at least the more aero ones. Dead ICE ones can be had cheap and easily converted. You are on the right path as EV's cost what they weigh. A much lighter aero car takes a much smaller battery pack, motor, controller, etc for the same performance. Or 100 mile battery range and an 8kw range extender I'm doing one that only weighs 45lbs gives unlimited range on gasoline, E-85, Methanol, etc using hot-rodded racing go cart motors readily available for those fuels. Jerry Dycus On Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:27 AM, Ben Goren via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Just one more time, Ben. Do you really need to keep the ICE? Especially with an old car like that - no computer, nothing electronic what so ever, think how easy and simple your configuration would be if electric only. I still haven't bought the car. If I'm going to do a pure BEV conversion, this wouldn't be the car I'd do it with; instead, I'd get a Ghia or the like. But a pure BEV car has the range problem, which is exacerbated in my case by the spread-out nature of the Phoenix metro area plus our summer heat...a car with a nominal 100 mile range is going to be stressful to drive somewhere 30 miles away on a typical day like today with a 110F forecasted high. Going somewhere 30 miles away and deciding on the fly to make a stop another 10 miles out of the way on the way home isn't going to happen. The idea with the Mustang is to get something not unlike the Volt. A couple dozen pure electric miles would cover most of my driving, and a plugin hybrid range aggressive on the electric (presumably resulting in fuel economy rivaling that of an econobox when in that mode) would cover everything else except for trips -- plus it should be great for trips. And it should wind up having all sorts of performance. So...if this car, yes, the ICE stays; if the ICE goes, not this car. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140726/fa809afe /attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140731/6f797dff /attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
