On 26 Sep 2014 at 15:16, Ben Goren via EV wrote:
> ...of course, a really big problem is the batteries. Until we have battery
> packs that can gracefully fit in the space previously occupied by a gas tank,
> _all_ conversions are going to be...interesting....
That is indeed one major problem. I remember Mike Brown talking about what
he went through with the Voltsrabbit kits. IIRC, he designed the
Voltsrabbit battery boxes to fit an early ('78 or '79) Rabbit perfectly.
The next year, VW changed the front end of the car - I think that was when
they went from round to rectangular headlights - and the front battery box
wouldn't fit any more.
Another problem that's come to the fore in recent years is convincing the
car's body computers that they should let the accessories work without the
car's orginal engine running. ABS brakes sometimes don't work right if the
engine computer isn't answering the brake computer's insistent questions.
Traction control? Good luck.
Figuring out how to give all these computers the fake input they want isn't
trivial, and if the manufacturer changes things from one model year to the
next, you can end up back at square one.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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