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    eCar - Hybridization

    Good find DRK ;-) I still kinda like the diesel / dc gen rig but thats a lot of Gen for the money!
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    eCar - Hybridization

    I dont even know how to respond to that man, advancing tech is a bad thing based on the obsolescence of the replaced tech?
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    eCar - Hybridization

    I dont get it, heres the last word on the fairytale front, highest MPG for a car that can be purchased today inside the US, Prius, 50, Hybrid. Granted its not perfect, and there is a LOT of improvements to be done, but its a path to be traveled. I wonder if the place Orville and Wilbur hung out...
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    14kw continuous 94% efficient motor.......

    800 smackers for the 350a controller (Electric motorsport wants 995)
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    14kw continuous 94% efficient motor.......

    I spoke with Mark over at Thunderstruck for a couple of hours today and it occurred to me that I may have the controller for you guys... Its the Sevcon Gen 4 it is an ac / bldc controller that is supposed to be the cats meow in efficiency, etc. its range goes up to 116v (HVC) should pull 31...
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    eCar - Hybridization

    Unless I am missing something were talking about a range extending gen, where the batteries are still in play. so no waiting (admittedly) forever and a day for 9kw to accellerate the theoretical civic to speed, nor having poor hill performance., thats what the battery pack is for. In my...
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    eCar - Hybridization

    Huh? For an f250 maybe, a civic for example is closer to 9kw to maintain 70mph
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    A123 18650 packs.

    Could you get me a quote on 2 36v x 40 ah packs please? possibly 4 Thanks!
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    Crazy enough to work? Controller in reverse??

    Thanks for the input John, I beleive I posted this elsewhere, but here is a pic or two: I think I have aero fairly well addressed, and im closing in on the final design for the hybrid setup. One idea posed to me was, during highway driving (The diesel would not have a tranny, other then a...
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    Crazy enough to work? Controller in reverse??

    I would have thought they would only be good for regulating to 14v or so?
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    A123 18650 packs.

    Does this source offer larger packs as well?
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    the introduction of Jeremy in Scrapheap Challenge

    I looked and looked for a copy of that episode, no dice. Jeremy, how did it come out?
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    Crazy enough to work? Controller in reverse??

    Ok, just had a weird idea for my hybrid trike. Its a highway speed affair, and it is to be a hybrid. Originally I was thinking serial and use 2 large 72v (possibly 96v motors one for the gen, and one for the drive. But I had an idea, since the engine's, a 10hp diesel, main job is to provide...
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    discharge and charge simultaneously?

    Ive been thinking along these same lines for my build. Cant the "buzzer signal' used to alert of approaching LVC coming from the bms be used to engage the starter (be it human pulling a rope, or electric starter) and "approaching HVC buzzer signal be used to kill the gen?
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    $348 EZip Trailz w/free shipping!

    Ok, it has to be asked... Whats the best way to make one go faster for $100? $200?
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    eCar - Hybridization

    Great article Damcard! http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1979-07-01/Electric-Car-Conversion.aspx
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    eCar - Hybridization

    The more I dig into it, the more excited I get. Even doing the "prius thing" ;-) DIY Evers NEED to build efficient cars, and the prius is, at the end of the day a factory built big car, admittedly with decent aero. I got off the phone with another forum member last night getting spectacular...
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    Turnigy CA120-70 8600W Brushless Outrunner (100c eq)

    Im wondering what efficiency I would get using this as a gen for my trike project, need 105v and 60a or so..
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    14kw continuous 94% efficient motor.......

    Whats the latest with this? :-)
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    ALVC, AHVC Huh??

    Had a lovely chat with SteveO just now, about potentially purchasing his A123s brought up an interesting question for my project. In a nutshell, its a series hybrid trike. 800lb empty 100v x 100ah battery pack. Here is what I am looking to do, bearing in mind most trips this trike would be...
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    Advice Needed - Headway vs Thundersky

    For what its worth... I just read 4 pages of crap with like 4 good posts answering the original question, (which I would really like an answer too, cause im in the same batt decision boat) Where can I send the invoice for my wasted time BMI? Tom
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    waste of time. don't bother.

    Cant wait to hear more about this one!
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    14kw continuous 94% efficient motor.......

    Matt, im building another trike, road going 800lb empty great aero, think this motor would have the torque for it with a 72v 450a ev controller?
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    14kw continuous 94% efficient motor.......

    Whats the latest in pricing, and release date for the final motor?
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    Is this my genny?

    The thing I want to avoid with the hardware store Gennys is that they are ac, and the losses from the gen to the ac charger, to the pack, to the controller to the drive motor. Perhaps the convenience of naiveté is in play here, perhaps its just an impossible goal? but it seems to me that the...
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