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Out of interest has anyone ever converted a 3ltr tdi automatic to run on electric power???
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Oh well it was just a thought...... maybe I can be the first...Originally posted by Albannach View PostComment
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I thought you were joking? Please, tell me you're not serious!Do you know that, with a 50 character limit, it'sComment
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Yes, but I had to tow a trailer ful of batteries everywhere I went which wasn't very practical.Comment
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Deadly Serious.....Originally posted by Albannach View Post
Look at the EV Photo Album http://www.evalbum.com/ there are lots of conversions out there and the weight of the batteries is offset by the weight of all the big lumps of metal taken out, engine, exhaust fuel tanks (fuel) etc.
Electricity is far cheaper than even BIO and road tax is zero, plus I only use my truck about town where speeds rarely get above 45 but I like the 4 wheel drive option in the winter.
Plus I am getting bored with making BIO now.
I just have not seen any automatic conversions
Anyway it was just a thought.....Last edited by johnsiddle; 30 July 2011, 01:41.Comment
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$~40k to convert?Do you know that, with a 50 character limit, it'sComment
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Dont know,,, Just looking into it at present....Originally posted by Albannach View Post
I dont like spending money so I will find a cheap way....Comment
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I doubt it.
The battery car evangelists tend not to take into effect the drop in capacity. Doing it cheap would probably mean using lead-acid technology, which would mean probably losing half capacity in a year or two, and then throwing several grand at a new battery 'pack'. If you were to use a more appropriate battery technology to move the weight of a Surf you'd use a lithium type which would give you less deterioration, lower weight, but at a huge initial cost (think 10's of thousands) and potentially life threatening danger if you get things wrong.
Battery cars are a dead end. If Nissan / Honda / Toyota cant make anything better than feeble and massively flawed, DIY wont produce better.Cutting steps in the roof of the worldComment
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Might be easier to fit a Flux Capacitor!! 
Now it's time to play!Comment
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Thats not a great start to this sort of project!Originally posted by johnsiddle View Post
4x4toys.co.uk - Keeping you on and off the road...Comment
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Kiwi's are a very clever and industrious bunch, so this thread is a little out date.......
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/n...-full-of-gruntComment
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I disagree Tony, the project is all about finding a way to do this efficiently not at any price.Originally posted by TonyN View PostThats not a great start to this sort of project!
The mother of invention and all that.
As I said at the start it is just a thought.
I haven't sorted my error 14 problem out yet.
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No but I do drive with my back window down sniffing the BIO fumes.....Originally posted by gary-r View Post
have you been smoking the special cloggy herbal fags
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