Hi Matthew and All, For about the same price you could switch to much better 6vdc golfcart batts that would give 2x's + the range and last much longer. Batteries are marked up 60-70% so plenty of bargaining room there. 215 amphr 6v ones shouldn't cost over $80 plus core. I pitted Auto Zone against Discount Auto with their 10% lower policy which works especially well with a $20 discount coupon for one of them. I got my last 115amphr 12vdc real deep cycle ones by Duralast/Johnson Controls for $70 each ;^)) The deal was better than a battery dealer!! I only use 12vdc because I use it in my EV MC trike, Streamliner. Or any over 1k lb EV, go 6vdc for the most economical, long lasting plus more range pack. EV's can be low cost if done well. The VW Bus is a good, light glider that could with not much work, be very aero increasing range more. Jerry Dycus
________________________________ From: Matthew Park house <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL] Range I just priced the cost of a replacement set of ten lead-acid RV-type batteries (12 volt) for my VW Van conversion (It is FOR SALE, by the way!). Came to right about $1,800. This is from a local battery supply. Is there a less-costly way to buy these? What is the recommended source these days? (It's been four years and I'm a bit staggered by the increase in cost!) Thanks, Matthew Parkhouse, RN hobomatt@ aol.com Colorado Springs, CO: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131003/ac4d11c8/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)
