I have to concur. When a suitable battery pack and BMS are a significant percentage of a used Leaf, it's going to be hard to justify completing the project. But it certainly is much *cooler* than a Leaf. That's what hot-rodding is all about. Expense is secondary, even for the thrifty.
sean On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Tom Keenan via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I can understand the lack of potential conversion buyers. My present EV, > a 1989 Ford Escort converted by a company in Santa Rosa, was on sale at one > point for $2,000 but it never sold. Ultimately, the owner put it up for > grabs on the local EAA list. I put a set of new lead acid batteries in, > and it has been relatively trouble free for the past three years. It has > had its share of mechanical problems, but it is a 1989 Ford Escort at heart. > > The big quandary for my EV will come in a year or so when it needs another > battery pack. Does one spend over $8,000 to upgrade to a marginal lithium > pack, charger, and BMS, or $2,500 on a lead acid pack that will work, but > with the lackluster performance it has always had just to drive it a few > thousand miles for the next few years? > > Putting $8,000 into a battery pack for an old, and otherwise unremarkable > car would seem to be the height of folly, particularly when modern but > used, factory made EVs (Leaf, iMiEV) can be had for just a bit more. > > Tom Keenan > > > On Jun 14, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > This is the state of used home built EVs. No interest. The parts in > this vehicle are worth 10 k. What a shame. With the right pack this > vehicle out range and perform any factory EV. It will also be better when > the factory EV is broken as it will be fixable by the owner or any ev > converter. The factory ev will cost big bucks to fix. When people realize > this conversations will rise in value. Lawrence Rhodes > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150614/294d2b98/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) > > -- Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150615/c02d7217/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)
