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Electric Quad Project.

DIY Electric Car

I am leaning towards a golf cart or forklift motor. She love to hunt, and fish, but as her decease has progressed it has become increasingly more difficult for her to take part in these activities. All the Golf cart motors I have been finding on the net are either 10 or 19 spline. Golf cart motor ?

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. Of course, this was while he was manufacturing and distributing parts for conversions.”. The only EV he was familiar with was a golf cart, so he tried playing around with that, and eventually converted a Beck into electric.”

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ZENN Motor Changes Strategy to Sell EEstor-based Electric Drive Rather Than Its Own EVs

Green Car Congress

We have the opportunity to either challenge a small part of the market as an OEM, or to leverage the numerous established OEMs with their respective brands and infrastructure. With access to global platforms through multiple partners, we believe we can be much more successful as a strategic technology provider than an automaker.

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Electric Cars Need Sex Appeal; the Tesla Roadster's Got It

Green Car Reports

As electric cars move from garage conversions into mass production over the next few years, public adoption could be held back by something more crippling than battery technology: the notion that electric cars are no more than unattractive golf carts. Using the.

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More Tools (i.e. toys.)

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

So, given that it's cold and rainy for a few months and I have the suspension, I decided to start the conversion, despite not having all the parts from ElectroAuto yet. Maybe I'll take a day off to go to A & P as well as Farwest Golf Carts to pick up some old 8V golf cart batteries for desulfation testing.

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Battery Equalizer Schematics Rev 1.0

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The circuit above costs less than $10 per battery in parts and I hope to make this available to everyone to help people make their batteries last longer. I'll have to modify the circuit with a voltage doubler in the final stage to work with 8-volt golf-cart batteries for the 914 EV kit.

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Batteries are Here!

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

After much time on the phone with UPS Freight, the 8-volt golf cart batteries finally showed up today! Although the Bill of Lading clearly stated that this was a residence requiring a liftgate, UPS seemed to overlook that part of the order. Here's the semi that showed up at my doorstep to block off the street.

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