juni 3rd, 2010 Full Electric Car Home Conversion - 1988 Pontiac Fiero Part 1
The process of converting my Pontiac Fiero to 144 volt electric car. Full video documentation of the process along with a few test drives. It runs on 12, 12 volt Trojan deep cycle lead acid batteries. Powered by a 9.1 in. dia. Advanced DC motor with a 500 amp Curtis controller. Part 2 and 3 will be coming soon. GO ELECTRIC!
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juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@AntiEcoCarFan Did you see that Dave Chappelle episode? Pretty funny
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@LucasEV1 oh yeah. also this isnt my real account.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@LucasEV1 i lost my tickets lol
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@AntiEcoCarFan Ha ha ha. I can see you have a very balanced and fair perspective. I get it, you just tossed a few broad eco car terms into the search bar and started going down the list and and adding comments to cause havoc. I might consider that too if I was just starved for attention (slightly sardonic). And I must say, last sign in 20 mins ago and you just got your account, get a life. Oh did you get your tickets to the player haters ball yet? Haha sorry I had too.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
electric cars are for hippies
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
fuck the environment. all environmentalists are doing is pissing people off. if you’re an enviromentalist what are you goiing to do about me? get pissed off on my channel? aww im scared.(btw, if you block, report or hack me ill come back on another account and troll you. process is subject to being repeated)
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@billdale1 have you actually tested this?
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@DanFrederiksen @DanFrederiksen sorry, not true: if u start out w/ 100 cells, all at exact same level, & charge & discharge them together again & again, over time some cells will creep higher in charge & others will creep lower, out of sync w/ each other; the cells that are low will be damaged on discharge, the high cells will be damaged during charge; lithium cells r much more sensitive in this respect than lead/acid and other chemistries & R easily damaged.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
@billdale1 actually it’s cheaper to use lithium now because of the weight and the lifespan. and as jack rickard at EVTV has experienced you don’t even need a BMS as long as you dont’ run them dry and you have a charger that stops charging at a certain voltage level. I think he uses sky batteries aka calb which you can get from evcomponents. com for about 340$/kWh. noone should ever again use lead. it just isn’t cheaper.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Lucas– excellent! My conversion is on YouTube as “BMW EV Conversion Burns Rubber”– much more expensive, with more power, but in retrospect I wish I had started with a simpler project such as yours. Lithium batteries are much easier to ruin, need much more precise control and battery management.
It won’t be long before there are lots of conversion kits available to do this stuff much easier, & there will be lots of these DIY EVs on the road, reducing foreign oil use. Hope 2 meet u sometime!
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
30 miles on the last long range test I did but now that the batteries are conditioned it should be able to do 40 but I haven’t confirmed that yet. Takes 7-8 hours from full discharge and about 4 from half discharge.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
how long does it take to charge and how far can you drive on a full charge?
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Wow not sure where the statue of liberty comes into any of this but whatever. Also, for your reference to keep from humiliating yourself in the future, it has been proven that electric cars charged from the dirty US grid still produce less emissions and are more energy efficient (joules input, joules output) than gasoline cars.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Youtube wont let me post links in the comments but I posted a link to the schematic I used on my channel page.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Wow that’s not too bad. I didn’t expect that much. Nice build.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
I don’t think Volts converts directly to HP but it converts to watts. 746 watts = 1 horsepower and amps x volts = watts
144 v times a max current for the controller of 500 amps = 72,000 watts
Then divide 72000/746 and you get about 97 hp.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
How much HP is 144V equivalent to?
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Nice job on the car! I’m in a bio-medical electronics class and I was wondering if you can sketch up what you used on that board. Right now I am learning about transformers. I have been itching to do something like this and be able to say screw the foreign oil!
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
that guys is like an emotionless nicholas cage or something. good job with the car though
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Yeah and it is way more efficient. The electric motor is about 80% efficient where as an internal combustion is about 15% efficient.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Isn’t it amazing how a small electric motor can replace that big ole hunkin gas burning exhaust belching thing that used to be joined to that transmission????? Awesome.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
I agree on the AC system being optimal. Also with the added benefit of having regen brakes. I opted for the DC system because it is much cheaper. For the motor: At peak output it pulls about 500 amps at 144 volts = 72 kW. At continuous output it pull about 120 amps at 144 v = 17 kW.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
About $6,000 for EV components not including: car, tools, steel brackets for battery box, 12V wiring supplies, new break pads. I will have to get back to you on the maintenance though. The most common maintenance should just be replacement of brushes. And I believe the batteries last about 4 years of driving everyday but I dont have exact values.
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
Sorry for my english, great job,great video,great idea! i can’t wait to see more video…and more dectail for money. cost!
how many km you tink can made your electric motor whitout maintenance?and batteires?
juni 3rd, 2010 at 04:20
How many kW is the 9.1 in. dia. Advanced DC motor?
I would have opted for brushless DC or an AC motor as they are more efficient.