914 EV discussion, Who's doing or done an electric 914? Options

[Joe Bob]

http://www.electroauto.com/gallery/vp914.shtml
http://electric914.wordpress.com/
http://www.evcl.com/914/

Electro Automotive has a kit for 14K...yikes.....
Otmar seems to be REAL busy building components.....

I'm thinkng of doing one for my twins..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
I have two years to get it done.....

[PThompson509]

I'm one of the "idiots" doing the conversion. I am also one of the idiots (note the lack of quotes) that bought from Electro Auto. Their stuff IS quite good, but dang. I've been waiting for the all of the parts since forever. I paid them back in July of last year. Still missing a few parts, but ready to start ripping things out.

Once I've got it up and running, I'll see if I can get 150 miles per charge. I'm pessimistic about that. Especially considering my lead foot.

As for the cost, well, I have solar panels and can also charge at work. So the cost of charging is nil. The batteries will run me about $2000. The kit (sigh) was $14k. The 914 *was* $7k, but with the trans rebuild, brake rebuild, and the eventual repaint.....I'm looking at a $30k car. At least.

The good thing is that I LOVE my 914. I'm really hoping that the AC motor is going to be strong enough to push the car around the way I want. It's not gonna be a Tesla, that's for sure.

Cheers!

[banger]

I am sure that you probably could get 150 miles on one charge. The problem is that nobody would really want to drive that way. What fun is it to hve an electric vehicle, and not be able to launch at every stop light? If you were to run the car in 5th gear, and slowly nurse it up to speed, and not do any stopping or starting, you could get 150 miles.

I didnt say anyone is an idiot for doing a conversion, just make sure you are doing it for the right reasons, since having a cheaper vehicle is not one of them. To save weight, and extend range,y uo could look at using BB600 Nicd batteries. These are available surplus, and work quite well. Or you could run the car off of Prius batteries, which would cut the weight down considerably.