electric vehicle

I thought it might be interesting to see how EV conversions aren't the end all and be all of everything perfect in the world - far from it. They break, things you build don't always work out, stuff on the trail brakes things, etc., etc., etc. - all normal. Sometimes it's just a bad design or...

A few years back I picked up a 32 Ford truck that was someone elses project (they passed away and their family sold the truck) that had been in a storage unit since the 70s, body is really good, have no transmission or engine for it, rear end is the factory "torque tube" driveshaft, which I'm...

Hi All, Here's my fully converted EV CJ-7: The full build is over at the big site (ZERO disrespect intended!), JeepForum: Jeep CJ-7 EV Conversion And in keeping with this sites dark theme, here' s my first night drive: 4x4 EVC . The rest of my videos are here: 4x4 EVC I'll post the specs...

It's time to start documentation of my latest major automotive undertaking. For the past 5ish years, my personal motorsports projects have largely taken a back seat to growing the business. Any free hours that I previously would have spent working on buggies or race cars turned into R&D on...

I am helping out on a pretty interesting EV project. Local guy is building an EV Converted Philippines Jeepney. He has a liquid cooled 50 hp motor from another conversion project that was parted out and asked me to do some of the machine work. The plan is to keep the T90 and adapt the DC motor...

This looks promising: https://www.fastcompany.com/90967095/this-inexpensive-kit-can-make-your-gas-car-electric A “bolt on” hybrid kit would be nice for turning a wheeling rig into something more daily driver-able.

https://www.edisonmotors.ca/ Not a big EV fan, but I am not seeing really any down side cliffs smaller diesel gen set EV axels battery banks/re gen brake easy to work on, using off the shelf parts run electric need a recharge, run the gen set for 30 min and keep going solar on the trailers...

Been wanting to ditch the EJ life and go zappy in the scoob. My thoughts were to go with a forklift or golf cart motor. From what I can find, even the performance motors from Plum Quick won't have enough cojones to move an Outback at reasonable speeds. Reason for DC - lower...

The title is the generic. My interest is a drivetrain for an empty Honda Civic that would be grocery getter and lake runner. First part of the question is how do I select a 'good' motor size? Missing engine is 60hp/76ft-lbs is ~227lbs while car weighs ~1500lbs:homer: Related question #1...

Check out my EV Land Cruiser conversion. I have a full build thread here but I thought this would be a good spot to unload my photos and videos of the thing in action. Build thread: Electric Land Cruiser 80 Series The truck uses a motor, battery, and other electronics from a 2017 Nissan LEAF...

Just left chit chat and found this forum. I'm "wanting" to build a 2 seater UTV sized EV with 4 frame mounted independent motors driving portal boxes on the end of independent suspension. Found some lightweight axial high power motors (50 hp each continuous 81 HP peak iirc) and high voltage...

Stopped by NAPA today and learned they are releasing a line of tools made to work on EV's. Supposed to be released first of the month. Is that something that is needed? I haven't worked on any EV's. This is the sample set being shown around.

We will start this thread for anyone that wants to build an Ev. Will help as much as we can with our experience in Ev. As this is my first Ev build. This has been my crawler from back in 2002 been through many changes over the years now its a Ultra4 race truck for the Ev class. Im not an...

Anyone know anything about using hub motors to get front drive for a RWD vehicle?

So let's start the conversation. I don't have proper terminology for almost any of this, so if you know the proper language for the industry, please chime in. Motor configurations: 1) Simply replace a gas engine with an electric motor, leave the transmission, transfer case, axles as they are...

Does this count? Mods are full body PPF (suntek reaction ceramic infused film) and suntek evolve 30% tint all around as well as evolve 70% on windshield.