Use an extended cab truck and put it behind the driver. Keeps the battery closet to ideal temps, too
On January 13, 2016 8:35:15 AM CST, Jay Summet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > >On 01/13/2016 09:07 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: >>> ... buying a used Leaf is a great solution... >>> ... I have always liked the prospects of truck conversions. >> >> Is that like hacking the rear of the Leaf to add a truck bed? >> Or hacking a truck to install the Leaf drive? > >When I bought my wrecked leaf, (rear end collision), it would drive >around with the back wheels on wheel dollies. > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONBXP0ttW88 > >I put about a day of thought into finding a rear end of an S10/ranger >or >other "lite" pickup and welding it to the back of the Leaf. It could >be >done and should work, but would look horrible without a lot of snazzy >body work. > >The big issue I forsee is that you can't easily cut the leaf in half >because the battery is under the rear seats as well, so you would have >a >long cab short bed pickup. > >Transplanting the entire leaf drivedrain into the front of a s10/ranger > >should also be quite possible, but finding room for the battery would >require extensive modifications to the frame of the truck (unless you >cheated and just carried it around in the bed, but that would remove >your truck carrying capacity reason for doing the conversion.) Even >removing the driveshaft, the battery wouldn't fit between the rails >unless you moved them out a lot. > >Jay >_______________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ >Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA >(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160113/632a8df7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
