Sounds like a bad idea. Doable is not necessarily wise. Given unlimited cash and time, all sorts of questionable things are "doable."
You did not mention which body/chassis style...there are three. The front end on the older models (but not oldest) is nothing like what you might expect and you would have to throw it away and start over. The oldest ones at least had kingpins and were much more robust, but they are valuable as they are and hard to come by; the kingpin models were beloved and thus mostly destroyed by off road use. I never looked under the newest models, I presume they are like most cars and front wheel drive anyway - not what you described. If it is possible, you might want to try hub motors though they have disadvantages. On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Samuel El Guapo via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > I have initially considered attaching an electric motor by removing the > combustion engine but I figured it may be possible to instead attach an > electric motor to the front wheels so I can run the Beetle with the > combustion engine if I run out of batteries. I have heard from some sources > that this is doable but I would want to hear from the experts here. > I have some questions:1. where would it be attached to the front wheel?2. a > beetle is est. to be a 800kg car, what type of electric motor in terms of > wattage, volts, amps are we looking at for a front wheel connection. I was > originally considering something around 10kw motor but I don't know at what > volt/amp combo I should do. should be able to climb driveways. > Hope to hear from you all :) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170305/c3eb83c3/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) > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Warren Buffet Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 Mobile and Google Phone [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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)
