Looking at your EValbum page http://www.evalbum.com/1366 I hope you can arrange time to update it, so others can learn from what you have built.
Using plugshare.com , I don't see much public EVSE anywhere near your home (Elsberry, MO - is it as nice as Mayberry was TV-portrayed?). So, I am assuming (see map) https://goo.gl/maps/xRwapnCtxCF2 you took Hwy61 south for 50mi to St. Peters which has one L2-6kW EVSE, and after verifying your EV could do a return trip, (did not use the EVSE and) headed back for a total trip of 100mi. If so, that would have been how I would have tested my range in your situation, and congrats on your accomplishment :-) Pickup trucks have long made good long range conversions (if you are willing to only have a two seat EV, and lose a lot of the truck's bed and carrying capabilities). They already have the suspension and brakes for the added weight (much less modifications needed). In the 1990's there was a higher range pu-truck called the 'Long Ranger', but that evdl record was lost with a previous evdl archive. There was a successor to it, the Red Beastie http://evalbum.com/037 John ' http://www.plasmaboyracing.com ' Wayland completed the project for the builder when he got ill. Here is a related video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9XP5GFV5qQ On a web search the names 'Long Ranger' and also 'Red Beastie' bring up lots of other unrelated links. But trying to extend one's range has also seen some add-on trailers. ACP's Al Cocconi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion ACP's T-zero (a fore-runner to the GM-EV1, and to the Tesla Roadster, etc.) also offered a (Long Ranger) genset trailer to extend its range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genset_trailer Here is a picture of a modified T-zero with 'Long Ranger' trailer to improve its aerodynamics http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/Untitled-6-1.jpg When GM took all the EV1 EVs away for unnecessary destruction, the EV1 lessees snapped up what available RAV4-EVs (gen1) there were, and a few later adapted ACP's Long Ranger to their RAV4-EVs http://www.evnut.com/images/rav4/rav_longranger/rav_longranger01.jpg But with today's much longer range, higher capacity battery chemistries and L3 DC quick EVSE, all of that is unnecessary. Ah, yes, EVs have a long and glorious history (I posted the above so noobs/newbs would know and not forget the many that have done so much for the EV-cause, so the public now has a transportation choice other than ice). For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.0catch.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/100-mile-Club-tp4683866p4683875.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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
