On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:15 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's a whole mini-industry that > serves EV hobbyists with components, batteries, and even a few kits (where > model-specific, mostly for now rather old cars and trucks). EVWest has such kits for the aircooled VW platform. Engines are already interchangeable between all vehicles in the line, from the earliest Bugs to the ones made recently in Mexico, and from Bugs to Busses to Ghias to Things...and also, with minimal work, all the rear-engine Porsches as well. Many of those cars -- especially the Ghias and Porsches -- are ideal candidates for electrification: they're lightweight and aerodynamic. Since I've gotten the '64 1/2 Mustang, I've learned an awful lot about that platform, as well. I'm pretty sure that a similar near-universal kit could be made for Ford front-engine RWD cars from at least the 50s through the early 70s, and I suspect similar possibilities exist for others. For example, I could buy a brand-new ludicrous horsepower crate engine from Ford Motor Company Racing (or many others) to drop into the '64 1/2 Mustang, and the 260 in3 engine in the car right now would similarly fit in any car that the new engines would. Making a standardized electric equivalent like what EVWest has put together for VWs would seem to be a no-brainer. ...of course, a really big problem is the batteries. Until we have battery packs that can gracefully fit in the space previously occupied by a gas tank, _all_ conversions are going to be...interesting.... Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140926/b0b94d3b/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
