Louis That is a great idea. I have been thinking somewhat along thoselines. What would be necessary would be to find a donor car andspecifications that many people would like to own. As an example: Chevy S-10 65mph 50 mile range. The group designs the conversionspecifying the parts and methodology and then it becomes a simple process for anyonewith the desire. I have been interested in alternative fuel for aboutseven years. While an electric vehicle was initially my first choice Iultimately did a diesel to veggie oil conversion. I would still liketo convert a car to electric but the learning and design process willprobably take me a year. It would be wonderful to be able to purchasea specific vehicle and do a group conversion and have the vehicledriveable in a few weeks. Rather than pulling my hair out trying tofigure out the multitude of problems, I could have a drivable car andthen spend my thinking effort helping to improve the initial design.
This is a project that I would like to help and participate, Keep me posted ... Michael Bachrach -------------- Original message from "Louis Ruffino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > Hello Shawn, > I the meeting today I mentioned a movement in Finland to establish a > cooperative effort to build several hundred EV's using a bulk buy approach > and "open source" model for conversion, to Harvey Bennett. He and I were > thinking that this idea may be of interest to FLEAA members, and may be a > good initiative to propose at the Battery Beach Burnout. This is a summary > ot the Finnish effort: > > http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng:ev-press1 > > Harvey and I envision building/converting EV's with a cooperative > many-hands-on Workshop, using the selected components, such as mentioned in > the Finnish example. For example, following the bulk-buy of motors, > batteries, etc. 6-10 people would congregate at Coastl Tire and collectively > disassemble the IC auto and assemble the EV in one day (or so). This would > be done for multiple copies of the EV on successive weekends (or so) up to > several hundred... > > The FLEAA meetings, and Battery Beach Burnout would be good venues to see if > the idea is of interest to enough people to proceed with the coop > organization. > > Any interest? > > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Shawn Waggoner - FLEAA > > wrote: > > > We have all the details ready for the next Battery Beach Burnout! The > > planning team has been working very hard on getting the dates and venue > > set. > > > > > > > > > > The event will be on February 21&22, 2009 at FAU Jupiter Campus in Jupiter, > > FL where we held the 2007 BBB and conference. > > > > > > > > We have a full event information packet available for download from the > > website here: > > http://floridaeaa.org/uploads/PDdownloads/BBB2009_Info_Packet.pdf > > > > > > > > The main event website, with all the details and schedule, can be found > > here: http://www.batterybeach.com > > > > > > > > We are going to need volunteers and sponsors! Also, please note that this > > year, we are opening up the events to Hybrids and Plug-In Hybrids as well > > as > > EVs. We should have a huge turnout this year. > > > > > > > > If anyone has any questions, please let me know. Thanks! > > > > > > > > Shawn Waggoner > > > > FLEAA > > > > > > > > PS - please note, we are still waiting on the 2009 BBB logo, so the logo up > > there is a temporary one modified from last year. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Florida EAA mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.floridaeaa.org > > > > > > -- > Louis V. Ruffino,P.E. > 234 Palm Trail > Delray Beach FL 33483-5527 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel 561-276-6926 > Cell 561-350-0787 > _______________________________________________ > Florida EAA mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.floridaeaa.org _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
