Perhaps we should view the hybrid as a crossover vehicle for those insecure individuals who are not ready to go BEV "all the way," (A "reluctant virgin" so to speak.) I would note that many drivers of hybrids get a BEV as their next car purchase. Demonstrating the validity of my premice.
Dennis Lee Miles (EVprofessor) *Founder: **EV Tech. Institute Inc.** (www.evti.org <http://www.evti.org>) * *You Tube Video Link: http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss <http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss> * *E-Mail:* *evprofes...@evprofessor.com* <evprofes...@evprofessor.com> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* in Central Florida (Office hours: 12:00 Noon to 10:00 pm, New York time) On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Steve Clunn via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > About 10 years ago Net Gain was making a kit to do just this. > They had two motors that were 11 inch and also 6.7 specially developed > to have high torque and lower rpm. It would fit right in line with the > drive shaft. You cut the drive shaft and attach one end to the front > of the motor and the other into the back. Of course you have to have a > way for the drive shaft to expand and contract. Their idea was to make > it with a plug that would plug into the car's computer and would turn > the motor on and off at the appropriate time and be able to drive > around on battery power for short distances. They had a 72 V Alltrax > controller. I'm sure a lot of development time went into this to get > it to talk to the car's computer. Some nice idea but they > discontinued the program. That said there's nothing saying you > couldn't pick this idea backup. I worked on one of these setups > briefly with another company. I don't think it ever really workout as > well as they had hoped as it was a big truck and as you can imagine a > big truck with a 7200 volt 6 AGM batteries would not get you very far. > Today with the lithium batteries you could get a much larger pack and > much more distance. I've done a few of the drives haft modifications > on vehicles where we use Two 9 "s or one net gained 11. I found that > the price of drive shaft work varies quite a bit. Here in Oklahoma I > had a drive shaft shortened and then and new skyline put on, to match > the Transwarp net gain 9" motor and it was a little over $100 back in > Florida the same work at another shop cost over $300. I believe that > Net Gain still makes the 6.7 inch motor for this application. I am NOT > it Florida and I'm don't have a computer. If you need any information > on the 6.7 mention that Net Gain motor and Audrey can supply that for > you. > > -- > Steve Clunn > Merging the best of the past with > the best of the future. > www.Greenshedconversions.com > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140722/e9d30df9/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)
