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Following Gail's request to not consider li-ion and only purchase PbSO4 prices of T-15 equivalent batteries depend on where you are. The web still states Gail is in Las Vegas, NV I'll assume the L1 charger that Commuta-Car has is designed & set to safely charge a 48VDC PbSO4 pack of T-105 group 24 size 100 to 120 minute @75A batteries. Which batteries the new owner buys will depend on their priorities, but just as Lee had posted, you get what you pay for: -if the new owner is on a steep EV learning curve, it might be better to go with the cheapo Sam's batteries. But know that what ever blems/duds Sam's sells, you (Gail) are going to be called upon for help. With that in mind, I would opt for a better 'known-good' battery to have less problems the owner would call you on: Trojan the best and most costly, USBattery next level down ... (a lot of other brands in-between), to the ones being dumped by Sam's (there is likely a good reason they are cheap). Below I give the detail and local Las Vegas distributor contact detail/method of a few brands (best to worst). At the end I added a couple of links I hope will be also helpful. If I (an experienced EV driver of over 15 years) knew I was going to regularly use that EV, I would go for the USBattery as I have found using them over many years of pack changes, theirs is the 'best-bang-for-the-buck' (of course I am also the type that would modify the EV to be able to access the public L2 6kW EVSE around Las Vegas, but that is just me). One other point: For battery distributors, what model they sell the most of is the one they can give the best price-to-capacity break on. Meaning, if you ask the prices of each model when buying 6, and then divide the actual-total-price to that model's capacity, you will see what kind of deal you are getting Example if they sell large quantities of their US 2200 to the local golf clubs around Las Vegas, it is likely the price break the distributors gets will be passed along to the buyer. http://www.trojanbattery.com/product/t-105/ T-105 @75 Amps 115mins L-10.30" (262cm) W-7.11" (181) H-11.07" (281) 62lbs (28) http://tools.trojanbattery.com/dealers.aspx Battery Systems MASTER DISTRIBUTOR www.batterysystems.net 4500 South Arville Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89103 Contact: Jim Allen Telephone: 702-643-2500 Fax: 702-643-2555 Factory Motor Parts - Las Vegas MASTER DISTRIBUTOR 3200 Builders Avenue Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Contact: Marty Lebo Telephone: 702-459-0566 (22) http://www.hodgsoncorp.com/products/trojan.htm (email for a quote) http://usbattery.com/products/6-volt-batteries/ US 1800 XC2 US 2000 XC2 @ 75 Amps: 114mins 63.00 lbs US 2200 XC2 http://usbattery.com/info-center/u-s-dealers/ Shelton Battery 3731 South Valley View Las Vegas NV 89103 702.362.8180 Battery Systems 4500 S Arville St Las Vegas NV 89103 702.643.2500 http://www.samsclub.com/sams/golf-cart-batteries/3990117.cp?refinementParam=Refinement&rootDimension=&dimGrpitem=1&dimGrpbrand=2&dimGrpproductrating=3&dimGrpprice=4&searchCategoryId=3990117&altQuery=null&navParam=null&searchTerm=&requestType=ajax&interactedWith=customPrice&isRatingSelected=false&selectedFilter=null&minPrice=70&maxPrice=90¤tMinPrice=50¤tMaxPrice=200&lowerPriceRange=50&upperPriceRange=200&pageView=list&sortKey=p_sales_rank&sortOrder=0&noOfRecordsPerPage=12 ~$90 6V Golf Battery @Sam's Club Duracell® Golf Car Battery - Group Size GC2 Item #: 347700 |Model #: GC2 Energizer Golf Cart Battery - Group Size GC2 Item #: 1194 |Model #: Group Size GC2 http://www3.samsclub.com/clublocator/?xid=hnav_club-locator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar ... Comuta-Car, produced by Commuter Vehicles, Inc. retained all of the Transitional CitiCar changes including the larger 6 HP motor and drive train arrangement, but moved the batteries from under the seat to battery boxes behind the bumpers, making the vehicle about 16 inches (410 mm) longer than the 8-foot (2.4 m) long CitiCar. ComutaCars also incorporated additional frame supports to meet the new DOT standards. One of these supports created the center console like rug covered divider between the driver and passenger. http://citicar.org/PARTS/PARTS.TXT parts http://www.hightechscience.org/ComutaCar.pdf manual {brucedp.150m.com} On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 04:56 PM, Gail Lucas via EV wrote: > Now trying to help select batteries for the ComutaCar. I used Trojan > T105s > when I had it and the new owner is looking for the same since they are > still > in it but need to be replaced. One of our local EV gurus suggested money > could be saved by using some from Sam's Club where they can be purchased > for under $90.00. Please offer opinions, but not to upgrade to lithium. > That would be overkill for a C-Car. I have not bought batteries for so > long I > am not up on what is considered the best of the lead-acid for this purpose > ... - For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Comuta-Car-PbSO4-batteries-tp4675870.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.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)
