I bought my 1994 Saturn new in North Carolina back in 1994, then moved to Arkansas in 1996, and then moved to NE Ohio in 2000 (hometown). After the first winter my car suffered more abuse and damage than the previous 6 years due to salt, snow and crappy weather. In 2008 I had to replace the engine cradle (a major job that I did myself since the shop wanted $1500 and the cradle for a 1998 Saturn that was in excellent shape at the junk yard cost $250). I put several layers of Rustoleum on it before installing, and as of 2011 the cradle looks pretty crappy, but is still structurally sound. I always wanted to convert this car to electric and followed several threads on the EVDL from others that have. The condition of the car now is not appropriate for me to invest thousands of dollars to convert, even though I love the car. I'm sure if I still lived in Arkansas the vehicle would be worn, but would still be suitable for conversion. I am hoping that my 2004 Honda Insight will be the next conversion, I've been following John Wayland and Otmar's (Zilla creator) efforts. Hopefully the Ohio winters will not destroy it before the hybrid dies :-)
Rod ----- Original Message ---- From: Tim Clevenger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, January 8, 2013 8:13:57 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL] What does "outlast the vehicle" mean regarding batteries? In a word: rust. We in non-salt areas don't all know how well we have it. I recently changed an exhaust pipe on a 22-year-old Accord using hand-tools. I was able to reuse the original exhaust bolts with the new pipe. I would imagine that most 22-year-old cars in the salt belt already have sunlight peeking through the floorboards, much less have any reusable fasteners. Tim ----------- On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:23:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Lawrence Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] What does "outlast the vehicle" mean regarding > batteries? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I've heard so many well respected EV experts say the batteries will > outlast the > vehicles. Is that a function of just wanting a new car or actually > wearing out > the body? I drive diesel Mercedes and I can tell you that these 30 year > old > cars are as good or better than what is being made today. I think with the > simplicity of EV's (however the icing on the cake electric everything > complexity > of most new cars might wipe this out)should make bearing replacement > including > bushings the majority of what wears out. The standard should be 30 years > service with moderate repairs. In my experience converting to electric > will > lengthen the life of an auto. That should go for factory electrics too. > My > Aspire has 20 years on the body. I don't see it going downhill anytime > soon. > Lawrence Rhodes.... > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130108/0d3e2706/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) _______________________________________________ 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)
