When I built mine I did a spread sheet. It's all weight until you get up to highway speeds in excess of 65 miles per hour on my 86 Celica.
From: Ben Goren <b...@trumpetpower.com> To: paul dove <dov...@bellsouth.net>; Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Open Source Street-Legal affordable long-range EV4the masses On May 18, 2015, at 10:02 AM, paul dove via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > The rule of thumb is weight / 10. Oooh -- that's a very useful suggestion. How much does aerodynamics change that? In particular, I'm thinking of a 1964 1/2 Mustang with, I think, roughly a 0.5 cd. Final weight, though, should be roughly 3,000 pounds, maybe a bit over. And...a 1968 VW Westfalia Campmobile, probably 4,000+ pounds and (literally!) the aerodynamics of a shoebox. I've been figuring that better than 500 Wh / mile would be gravy for either. Not that I'm expecting such low numbers, especially for the Mustang; just that, if that's what I use, there'll be plenty of "Murphy factor" such that my surprise at the real-world performance will be pleasant. (And, those who don't know: I'm looking at a PHEV through-the-ground conversion for both, retaining the RWD ICE drivetrain and adapting a FWD axle with the electric motor connected only to that.) b& -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150518/9b756599/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)