From: Tom Keenan via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: Message-ID: <63593961-b4f9-483a-8dad-4cc9dc1e7...@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I can understand the lack of potential conversion buyers. My present EV, a 1989 Ford Escort converted by a company in Santa Rosa, was on sale at one point for $2,000 but it never sold. Ultimately, the owner put it up for grabs on the local EAA list. I put a set of new lead acid batteries in, and it has been relatively trouble free for the past three years. It has had its share of mechanical problems, but it is a 1989 Ford Escort at heart. The big quandary for my EV will come in a year or so when it needs another battery pack. Does one spend over $8,000 to upgrade to a marginal lithium pack, charger, and BMS, or $2,500 on a lead acid pack that will work, but with the lackluster performance it has always had just to drive it a few thousand miles for the next few years? Putting $8,000 into a battery pack for an old, and otherwise unremarkable car would seem to be the height of folly, particularly when modern but used, factory made EVs (Leaf, iMiEV) can be had for just a bit more. Tom Keenan But that isn't the end of the story. All you really need to do is get a Leaf or other pack for 2,500 dollars maybe less...a lot less sometimes. When it goes in your Escort it may have longer range because it will weigh 700 pounds less than the Leaf. You will then have to buy BMS and charger but that is a lot less than buying retail. That is what I'm going to do when I have the money. Lawrence Rhodes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150615/0da71884/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)
