The Dolphin is a sweet controller. Very simple to understand and program. I am selling a US Electricar Geo Prizm in great condition on eBay. I just put in new Lead Acid batteries and potentiometers. Make me an offer!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133482361615 Billy On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM EVDL Administrator via EV < [email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Aug 2020 at 17:54, paul dove via EV wrote: > > > > > We have one of the factory S10 EV with a dolphin controller up for sale > on > > > our website www.greenshedconversions.com > > > > Not sure what you mean by "factory S10 EV." if you mean "converted in a GM > > factory," then not really. That conversion wasn't done by GM. > > > > What you have there is one of the US Electricar conversions from the mid- > > 1990s. USE also converted Geo Prizms. I am not aware that a significant > > number of them made their ways to Europe. > > > > The name US Electricar can throw you off a bit as there were two unrelated > > companies by that name. > > > > An earlier one founded by Chandler Waterman in Athol, MA from 1979 > converted > > Renault R5s ("Le Car" -> "Lectric Leopard"), and I think a few other > cars. > > > > https://cartype.com/pages/7110/us_electricar_corporation > > > > The later US Electricar was headquartered in Santa Rosa CA and for a brief > > time from mid-1994 converted Chevrolet S10s and Geo Prizms using Hughes > > Dolphin drive systems. > > > > https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Sputtering-U-S-Electricar-Hits-a- > > Cash-Wall-3040263.php > > > > You can see a few USE S10s at evalbum.com. > > > > I have to agree with Paul. Expecting $9,000 for that truck is probably > more > > than a little optimistic. > > > > I may be going a bit too far to the pessimistic side, but IMO given the > > current conversion market and its non-running condition, yours might be > > worth something closer to $900. > > > > Here's a '94 USE S10 offered back in 2003 for $5k - in running condition. > > > > http://mattvideo.com/electric/_disc1/0000002e.htm > > > > The USE S10s and Prizms can't compare to modern factory EVs, but they were > > actually pretty nice conversions for their time. Fifteen to 20 years ago, > > lots of folks who had USE vehicles really liked them. The battery costs > > were daunting, though. They used a big tray full of expensive AGMs. > > > > By the late 1990s, spare parts for them were already a problem. Back then > > we had an EVDL poster who was asking how he could re-convert his dead USE > > S10 using a more conventional DC motor. > > > > There used to be a Yahoo Group for USE support. I don't know what's > > happened to it since Yahoo tore down their groups' infrastructure, but > IIRC > > they had quite a lot of troubleshooting information. If you could get > your > > drive system going and upgrade the battery to lithium you'd probably have > > something. > > > > I don't know whether it'd be $9k worth, though. At this point probably > most > > folks who are interested in EV pickups will be sitting tight for the > Tesla, > > Rivian, or possibly one of the possibly-vaporware Ford or GM E-pickups > > promised for later. > > > > In any case, good luck with it. > > > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and > > technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about > > science and technology. > > > > -- Carl Sagan > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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) > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200822/b338ae01/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
