Lol @ People who drive Prius' and haul ass everywhere

[pbhardbody]

It's the resources used to manufacture the batteries that is eco-unfriendly, not the end of the batteries' lifecycle. The constituent ingredients in the batteries are too precious to junk so they are recovered and reused, but mining, refining and transporting all the materials to make the new batteries is quite ungreen.

All I can say is "wow". Your knowledge on many subjects amazes me.

 

[pbhardbody]

If I take a shit in a Prius and wipe my ass on the seat, is that going green?

YES! it is. lol

 

[Big Rick Rock]

RW's got real electric props. We've been rolling our home built EV for a year now. No, not a hybrid, an EV. Nuttin under that hood but an old 5sp manual and an old forklift motor. Gets it's juice from a standalone PV array it can carry in the backseat.

That is one of the most impressive things I've heard in a while...


How the fuck you build one of those things?

How you get it legal on the road?

This thread is useless without pics of a (Mexican) Homemade EV.


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[RottenWillow]

That is one of the most impressive things I've heard in a while...


How the fuck you build one of those things?

How you get it legal on the road?

This thread is useless without pics of a (Mexican) Homemade EV.


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shit I had a bunch of pics, but no one gave a shit. I started threads on two different boards at least and no one was interested. The old HD died and lost all that stuff.

Sure it's legal, but you do have to get it recertified though. Anything you do that changes info on the registration (ie. fuel type) means recert. The process that entails though will of course vary from one state to the next. Georgia provides a pretty decent deduction on state taxes though, so it's well worth the initial hassle. It is a zero emissions vehicle.

Started with a POS 2000 Daewoo. It'd been rolled but was ok except for a bad strut and steering knuckle, but b/c it was a Daewoo we got it for $1600. Then we picked up a used forklift motor for $100 and rebuilt the brushes so it was as good as new. You need what amounts to an adapter to be specially fabbed in order to mate the output shaft of the motor to the existing manual transmission. Got that done at a metals fabricator near my house for $200. We cut out the bottom of the trunk to build an air cooled rack for the batteries, then just loaded it with off-the-shelf car batteries from Advance.

The only really pricey part was the controller. You really want to buy that new. The one we decided on was $2k.

My father is an electrical engineer so we had an expert to school us on how to wire this up. Considering that you're working with mucho fucking amperage, it's wise to be certain of what's up before you bring all that juice together. There are shit tons of how-to vids around though if you want to try it.

That standalone PV setup was $1200. The car is a 4 door so I can pack it in the backseat and take it with me to work and put it down beside the car in the next parking spot. Josh does the same if he drives it to the plant.

 

[Captain FT]

If I take a shit in a Prius and wipe my ass on the seat, is that going green?

Did you eat a lot of broccoli or spinach?

 

[ortiz34]

lol@ all the Prius owners blaming their crashes on the stuck gas pedal
pwned by investigators

 

[Big Rick Rock]

shit I had a bunch of pics, but no one gave a shit. I started threads on two different boards at least and no one was interested. The old HD died and lost all that stuff.

Sure it's legal, but you do have to get it recertified though. Anything you do that changes info on the registration (ie. fuel type) means recert. The process that entails though will of course vary from one state to the next. Georgia provides a pretty decent deduction on state taxes though, so it's well worth the initial hassle. It is a zero emissions vehicle.

Started with a POS 2000 Daewoo. It'd been rolled but was ok except for a bad strut and steering knuckle, but b/c it was a Daewoo we got it for $1600. Then we picked up a used forklift motor for $100 and rebuilt the brushes so it was as good as new. You need what amounts to an adapter to be specially fabbed in order to mate the output shaft of the motor to the existing manual transmission. Got that done at a metals fabricator near my house for $200. We cut out the bottom of the trunk to build an air cooled rack for the batteries, then just loaded it with off-the-shelf car batteries from Advance.

The only really pricey part was the controller. You really want to buy that new. The one we decided on was $2k.

My father is an electrical engineer so we had an expert to school us on how to wire this up. Considering that you're working with mucho fucking amperage, it's wise to be certain of what's up before you bring all that juice together. There are shit tons of how-to vids around though if you want to try it.

That standalone PV setup was $1200. The car is a 4 door so I can pack it in the backseat and take it with me to work and put it down beside the car in the next parking spot. Josh does the same if he drives it to the plant.

That is cool. Very cool.

 

[wtfbbqover]

I just gave that fagot rick red k lol

 

[stilleto]

letto will be mad at your bashing of her new vehicool

you know I didn't get a toyota, right?

 

[pintoca]

you know I didn't get a toyota, right?

k now, what did you get? sexy european car?