My daily driver is a "factory" converted US Electricar, built in 1994 from an S10 longbed glider. Over 100 were built and several still on the road. I also have a 2002 Rav4 EV with tired NiMH pack, so am working with local EV'ers to find a way to convert to Lithium. Problem is the odd shaped pack outline, which is made from Fiberglass and the option to convert to Lithium (Leaf batteries) requires either to increase the volume of the box slightly to fit a dual string of Leaf batteries (at lower operating voltage) or be satisfied with a single string, which severely eats into the range of the vehicle... Anybody here has done such a conversion? Cor.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:51 AM brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Ed sez: > >Will be showing it this Sat at Berkeley's drive electric event. Three years > driving strong on a lithium (enerdel) pack. 70-80 mpc range. Love it. < > > I'm glad Ed is able to keep that 1990's vintage EV alive. > That's a glint of the difference between the SF-bay area ndew EVents where > every type > (old &new) EVs are shown, compared to here in San_Antonio-TX (sa) where the > ndew EVs > are almost all newer production EVs > > (next Sat 9/14 I'll be at the Austin ndew with 51 plugins registered to > attend > https://driveelectricweek.org/event.php?eventid=2009 > > and the following Sat 9/21 I'll be at sa's ndew with 40 plugins registered > to attend > https://driveelectricweek.org/event.php?eventid=1766 > ). > > EV-history: Back in the 1990's the automakers gathered to decide what EV > type > each were to make (so they would not conflict with each other's marketing). > Chrysler chose an e-van. Ford chose their lower cost light truck to base > theirs > on. Other automakers chose other vehicle types. > > Paper-print pr had FMC stating their EV marketing would be for fleets (as in > for businesses, government agencies, and as park maintenance vehicles). > Later, that changed to where some private individuals could lease and later > buy the Ford Ranger-EV. > > Ford's design was quite different than say the RAV4-EV. Look at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV#Driveline > Ed's li-ion pack range is only a little larger than the original NiMH pack. > > https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/01/1862/1048/ranger-ev-ex.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 > Ford's transaxle direct drive using a siemens AC e-motor, was by design able > to drive at highway speeds, but that was not its main decided use (see page > 13 of85). > https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/ranger_nimh_report.pdf > > I remember transcribing many a paper pr blurb back then, to post on the > evdl, > stating a city_park.us had acquired a Ford Ranger-EV to be used for > maintenance > work. The Ford Ranger EV was not designed to compete with GM's EV1, > Honda's EV-plus, nor TMC's RAV4-EV(gen1). > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
