Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Electric car rally

Tomorrow there is an electric car rally.
http://gogeogo.com/electriccarrallyhawaii/ I have been invited to participate. I want to give a little blurb on the car:
Project name: Geo Metro Eclectric Conversion
Car: 1993 Geo Metro Manual 2 door
Conversion time: some work most weekends for 3 months
First driven as electric: Jan 27th 2008
Motor: ES-15A Series Motor 40 HP Peak - 12 HP Cont.
Batteries: Hi-power Lithium LIFEPO4 100 amp hour 72 volt capacity 7 KW hours
Range: 30 miles

Drive train uses existing manual transmission with no clutch.