Joseph Vaughn-Purling wrote: > I have a couple of commuters interested in Mini Cooper EVs. > I'm having difficulty getting the attention of the > appropriate folks who might be able to provide a couple > gliders. I'm interested in hearing suggestions from anyone > with success in a similar effort.
Hi Joseph, It depends. If you mean the original Mini Cooper, you're probably best off contacting these folks http://www.solarmobil.net/mini.htm. You'll need to bring them in as kits so they can be registered. An original Mini will be hard to find, and more effort to convert. See http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.bebbington/ for Richard's very clean conversion. If you're talking about the new BMW Mini, getting only a few gliders will be difficult. Car companies generally have a Special Vehicles department where people order things like police cruisers, postal vans, rolling truck chassis, etc. You can specify these vehicles with or without just about anything the manufacturer has, provided there is little or no engineering involved. If you want GM postal vans with Corvette engines, enough of them to justify a small production run, you can get your mail delivered Very Quickly. The problem is volume. My guess is that anything less than maybe 50 isn't going to happen. Check with BMW America to see if they have such a department. Maybe there's another Mini project you could tack your order to? Chris
