Aternative to the current gas prices?, T. Boone Pickens uses $1.00/gal natural Gas in his truck; Wonder what it would cost to convert the 914? Options

[DRPHIL914]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...Q0X01-M04KS.DTL

or

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-29/opinion...t?_s=PM:OPINION


when i bought my 914 i was going to go EV IF i could not get the engine running, but did get it running and thus saw the $20,000 cost to convert using LiPo batteries, so passed for the time being. however, since my son is an engineering major at USC(south carolina) this subject keeps coming up.

Hydogen, Propane, compressed natural gas, all options.

this just came up yesterday with the high gas prices, Back in minnesota all of our busses ran on propane.

so why not our 914's?

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food for thought....

[underthetire]

Well, I was buying 1.5 Lipo's for my airplanes at 45.00 per battery about 3-4 years ago, now the same battery costs me $9.95 now with a higher discharge rate. A 10Cell 5.0 with super high discharge rate is about $125.00 now, it was over $600 back then, and the new ones are far better.

How many static amps and voltage would you need? I'm guessing 50 packs of the 10cell ones would be a good start? That would give you 250 amps static and 12500+ burst.

[DRPHIL914]

Well, I was buying 1.5 Lipo's for my airplanes at 45.00 per battery about 3-4 years ago, now the same battery costs me $9.95 now with a higher discharge rate. A 10Cell 5.0 with super high discharge rate is about $125.00 now, it was over $600 back then, and the new ones are far better.

How many static amps and voltage would you need? I'm guessing 50 packs of the 10cell ones would be a good start? That would give you 250 amps static and 12500+ burst.

pretty close- you are talking75% less that they were, and at a higher discharge rate etc. you would not need to do much conversion- or use either of the trunks for battery storage. just the current gas tank location and if you wanted more range, build a rack above the motor in the current engine location,

so about $5k for batteries, $$3.5k for the motor, controlers etc. plus misc supplies and this might be possible to do under 10k, get one of those west coast rollers for $500 bucks and off you go- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

[ape914]

Well, I was buying 1.5 Lipo's for my airplanes at 45.00 per battery about 3-4 years ago, now the same battery costs me $9.95 now with a higher discharge rate. A 10Cell 5.0 with super high discharge rate is about $125.00 now, it was over $600 back then, and the new ones are far better.

How many static amps and voltage would you need? I'm guessing 50 packs of the 10cell ones would be a good start? That would give you 250 amps static and 12500+ burst.

pretty close- you are talking75% less that they were, and at a higher discharge rate etc. you would not need to do much conversion- or use either of the trunks for battery storage. just the current gas tank location and if you wanted more range, build a rack above the motor in the current engine location,

so about $5k for batteries, $$3.5k for the motor, controlers etc. plus misc supplies and this might be possible to do under 10k, get one of those west coast rollers for $500 bucks and off you go- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

$10,000 for conversion, that would buy 2500 gallons of gasoline at $4/gal. I could go about 75,000 mile on that, 15+ years of driving, and that dont count the cost of electricity to charge them. ( and the price of Californian electricity is set to double with the carbon trading scheme coming on line) Will the batteries even last 15 years?