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I want an electric 240

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never thought id say it, but i honestly think that within the next 2 years, if i still have my 240 id like to make it electric...whats even more compelling is that its become so easy and simple to do it. At the moment if i had the funding id probably use one of the transmission adapters from here :

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http://www.electriccarpartscompany.com/ ... p_184.html

id love the zilla 1k controller from manzanita, but realistically id probably just build the controller from this guy :

http://www.paulandsabrinasevstuff.com/store/page3.html

$600 for a 144v 500 amp controller is a damn steal and i actually scanned through all 60 pages of the instructions and it seems hella easier than making a megasquirt module.

motor is probably one of the most confusing because of how many routes you can go, especially considering the costs...but the netgain warp series motors seems like a solid choice....depending on how much cash i oneday decide to set aside for this project, maybe the warp 9 or 11 here :

http://www.evsource.com/tls_motors.php

$1600

Batteries is what im about to start researching, battery tech is really truly the limitation for these cars, hopefully that will change in coming years. if i can afford a stack of lipo's.

No this setup still probably wouldnt hold a candle to my current 300whp setup, but thats not the point...once the batteries and controllers become affordable, 300whp/300ftlb will be a joke, and best of all, we wont be called grease monkeys anymore :-)

just thought it would be a fun project....fotgot to mention that a charging source of some sort is also needed depending on battery choice.
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TinyT wrote:for the love of god, post your setup, do you really think you can get an answer after saying HI ME CAR HAS TURBO NOW BUT I CANT BWAAA PSHH WITH IT WHATS WRONG
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Interesting idea. I saw this guy's electric 240 a few years ago and pondered doing this myself: http://www.jouleinjected.com/
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definitely wouldn't be the first person to consider it. if i could swallow the cost of a battery pack (even just using agm or lead acid batteries), I would switch. but those lipos man, I can buy a decent new car for the price of a lipo pack that would get me 100 mile range.
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I've sometimes daydreamed about trying to build an electric car with a locomotive traction motor, but the batteries and control circuits to support one of those monsters wouldn't have been cheap.
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Yeah its unfortunate that battery technology seems so damn far off from being cost effective....electric motors are clearly the future, I mean who doesn't want 300ftlbs at 0 rpm with the simplicity of an electric motor compared to a combustion engine..... Maybe we should focus on creating an dedicated electrical track lane on certain major highways to boost range of electric cars....kinda like a slot car lane :-)
And even when battery tech catches up, they can charge users by the kilowatt to use the said track, like an easy pass charge lane.
Since im on a roll here, the entire road would be one large Wireless Qi enabled charge mat for the underside of our cars......I should patent these ideas.
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I would much rather see something replace the need for batteries as the power source and still use the electric motors

I dont understand how tesla (the person not the company) was able to do that ages ago(run an entire car off of inductance), yet we dont do it now
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Lots of amazing ideas were lost with Tesla :/
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This is a really cool idea! Thanks for sharing.

Do you guys think there would be any advantages to gearing an electric motor to keep the shifting aspect of the driving experience?

At the moment I can't think of any advantages of doing this and the more I think of this, the more I'm realizing the disadvantages to keeping the transmission and clutch, such as the need for these parts to handle the torque loads an electric motor would produce during stop-and-go situations and the unnecessary friction and heat associated with the transmission. I just thought it would be cool to manually shift gears in an electric car :D .
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cleantune wrote:.
This is a really cool idea! Thanks for sharing.

Do you guys think there would be any advantages to gearing an electric motor to keep the shifting aspect of the driving experience?

At the moment I can't think of any advantages of doing this and the more I think of this, the more I'm realizing the disadvantages to keeping the transmission and clutch, such as the need for these parts to handle the torque loads an electric motor would produce during stop-and-go situations and the unnecessary friction and heat associated with the transmission. I just thought it would be cool to manually shift gears in an electric car :D .
there is always a benefit to having a transmission to reduce the amount of power required by the motor. electric motors consume current ~exponentially the higher the rpm, so they still benefit from the reduction in rpm.
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Here is my friend's EV 240. He was also one of the first guys to do a SR Swap and document for people online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtm6ddTl3I0
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beercandrifter wrote:
there is always a benefit to having a transmission to reduce the amount of power required by the motor. electric motors consume current ~exponentially the higher the rpm, so they still benefit from the reduction in rpm.
Awesome! So could this be the next step for electric cars then? If so, you guys read the idea for a geared electric motor powered Nissan 240sx here, first, on KA-T.org from me Cleantune! haha.
Walperstyle wrote:Here is my friend's EV 240. He was also one of the first guys to do a SR Swap and document for people online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtm6ddTl3I0
I watched the video, thanks for sharing, that was really cool! It looked like the electric motor was in the front. Do you know if that EV 240 runs off of the stock drive train (ds, diff, axels)? I also saw that the gear shifter was still installed; you wouldn't happen to know if this EV 240 geared, do you?

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