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Hauling Lead and Confusing Connections

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

These high-capacity 8-volt golf-cart batteries are 70 pounds apiece. I'll definitely take some ibuprofen before tomorrow. I pre-laid out these batteries on the floor to guestimate what the connections between the terminals were. I got this battery strap at a Yamaha golf cart dealer. The fuel compartment box.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. Why cant they just pull out the EV1 again? Call it the EV2? I guarantee well never see the Volt. Same tricks, different decade. If you have a solution I am all ears.

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