Lev, you are way past my area of knowledge. I never even found any AC that met my power targets. I had no idea the controllers were significantly more expensive.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Lev Lvovsky <lis...@sonous.com> wrote: > > I’m on this list so that I can learn what it’ll take to convert a classic > mustang to an EV with decent if not good performance. > > To that end, my understanding is that AC motors which produce a reasonable > amount of power are out of reach from the likes of you and I, on account of > the expensive controllers required. How do you plan on overcoming that? I’d > personally like to go the AC route (as I’m sure many other people would), but > it seems untenable. > > thanks, > -lev > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:55 AM, via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >> >> I am designing and building my own sports car. My eventual goal is to >> convert it to electric and sell them. The initial plan was to follow the >> NEDRA path and use a DC motor to get high performance and publicity >> (relatively) cheaply with the prototype. Then convert to AC motors to build >> the real cars. > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)