"You can actually work on them yourself, without having to fight some automaker's proprietary security stuff." That said; however, on older conversions and on most conversions the conversion documentation is very weak and documentation on the individual components is limited or non-exist. Many companies that made battery chargers, motor controllers, meter, and other electronic devices had limited documentation or proprietary documentation and never a schematic or software source code. I would rather hack a production EV product than reverse engineer or troubleshoot a product from a company that was out of business. A good example is the original EV1 hardware. Try to work on that stuff. Its value is nil.
________________________________ From: EV <[email protected]> on behalf of EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 5:17 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Cc: EVDL Administrator Subject: Re: [EVDL] Two EV's to Donate On 10 Sep 2017 at 22:16, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > They are old technology which has no place in the brush less motor > world of today. Yes, but they have an upside: You can actually work on them yourself, without having to fight some automaker's proprietary security stuff. If the motor or controller craps out, you can replace it (or them) with whatever new unit(s) you want. Same with the DC:DC, brake vacuum pump, and so on. Same with the battery. You can upgrade or downgrade any component at will. You can get parts from any source, not just the dealer. You won't have the car rejecting some junkyard or generic part you put in because it isn't "registered" with the body computer, or whatever. There seems to be a large and growing "hacking" (in a good way) community devoted to some production EVs, but even those are still much more locked down and opaque than any conversion. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ [http://www.evdl.org/images/evdl.jpg]<http://www.evdl.org/help/> EVDL Subscription Information and Help<http://www.evdl.org/help/> www.evdl.org About the EVDL: The Electric Vehicle Discussion List, founded in 1991 by EV enthusiast Clyde Visser, is an active and vital source of information and help for people ... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . [http://www.evdl.org/images/evdl.jpg]<http://www.evdl.org/help/> EVDL Subscription Information and Help<http://www.evdl.org/help/> www.evdl.org About the EVDL: The Electric Vehicle Discussion List, founded in 1991 by EV enthusiast Clyde Visser, is an active and vital source of information and help for people ... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub [http://www.evdl.org/images/evdl.jpg]<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> EVDL Subscription Information and Help<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> www.evdl.org About the EVDL: The Electric Vehicle Discussion List, founded in 1991 by EV enthusiast Clyde Visser, is an active and vital source of information and help for people ... http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org EV -- Electric Vehicle Discussion List - lists.evdl.org ...<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> lists.evdl.org The Electric Vehicle Discussion List is a forum for discussing the current state of the art and future direction of electric vehicles (EVs). We define an EV as a ... Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ EVDL EV News Archive - Electric Vehicle Discussion List<http://evdl.org/evln/> evdl.org EVLN - EV News Archive Edited by Bruce {EVangel} Parmenter: EVLN: home | help | archive | news | privacy policy | terms of service Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) [https://s1.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/130909/y_200_a.png]<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA> Yahoo! Groups<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA> groups.yahoo.com / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170911/a85719cb/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
