September 16th, 2008 |
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Inspiration, Uncategorized
Toby Ricco's nice project
Dear readers (maybe I should write reader), I thought I would share with you a very nice project I came across during the weekend while browsing around on the fun site EV Album. On this site I found Toby Ricco’s amazing shifter kart project. The kart is based of an 2004 Italkart Rapido Shifter chassis. On the chassis Toby has mounted a Advacnce DC K91-4003 Series Wound DC motor connected to a Kelly controller. All this powered by 8 batteries from Panasonic at 12 V each amounting to a 96 V system (all in series as far as I understood).
I was really impressed with what I saw and decided to mail Toby and introduce my project and aspirations as well as ask for premisision to post his images on this blog as well.
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September 16th, 2008 |
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Build, Parts
So as I’m still looking for parts to put on to my kart it was now time to look for the biggest hurdle of all electrical vehicle manufacturers in making EVs fully competitive, the Battery.
When I looked at the karts being built by many people around the globe most where using the famous Lead-Acid batteries we know from our gas guzzling automobiles. Still with pretty decent performance these batteries suffer from one problem when it comes to putting them on a kart though: Weight!!. If I would like to get a 96 V system on my kart I would have to put 8 of these 12 V beasts on the kart and they would amount to a total of approximately 120 kg* (~265 lbs)!!! Ouch! that is not acceptable for me. So what option do I then have?
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