On 27 Apr 2024 at 23:58, lektwik via EV wrote: > It's been years since I posted here
Nice to hear from you again, Roy! > good luck telling someone they can only go 50 miles max on a charge now > and that 50% of vehicle weight in lead batteries is required to do it. I don't recall it being *quite* that bad. IIRC, you could usually get 40-50 miles of range with only 1/3 of the vehicle weight in lead. :-\ Years ago, Bob Rice wrote here about the Renault-based EFP Mars II that he worked on in the late 1960s. The EV weighed about 4200lb all up, and the battery 1900lb. That's ~45%. Bob said its real-world range was 95 miles at highway speeds. But I agree with your main point. Once the Nissan Leaf and Tesla S were established in the market, the days of EV conversions were numbered. I can see the effect in the EV list archive, with gradually declining numbers of monthly posts starting in mid-2012. That said, I think there might still some valid reasons to convert. - As a technical challenge - To have an EV you can work on and improve yourself - To clean up a beloved classic and make it (one hopes) more reliable - To get a type or style of EV that no manufacturer currently offers, at least where you live > I've been predicting for years that unmolested examples of those early > clik-clak DC and lead-acid conversions are the future EV collector's > items. They are disappearing quickly. I think that that's more likely with the early modern production EVs. I've heard of really clean Citicars going for 5 figures, for example. But you might be right, and some conversions might appeal to collectors someday. I'm no expert, so don't take that as investment advice - or any other kind, for that matter. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = In every country, they make fun of city. In US you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland. --Yakov Smirnoff = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
