Tellgren Karting

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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Dear readers, I recently returned from a 3 week long vacation touring three major cities in the USA (New York, Los Angeles, and San Fransisco) along with some national parks and other sights. This is the reason why the blog has been quiet. Now however I am back and I plan to pick things up during the week and especially during the week end. Lots of ideas has gathered during my absence and I am eager to start working again.

Stay tuned.

Since I recently put this blog live I have decided to today put a bit more effort in to the design of it. So here I start with a new template based on the wonderful blueprint CSS project. I will soon put the logo where it should be and adjust the colors accordingly.

As far as the EGO goes I now have several inquiries out at some DC motor manufacturers and I hope for replies before this week is over. I am also currently investigating the jungle of Lithium-Polymer battery cell manufacturers out there to see which are interesting and get some quotes.

Keep your eyes open and more will come.

As the site here is slowly taking form, the designing of a logo was iminent. I hereby presnet the new logo for Tellgren Karting:

The new logo of Tellgren Karting

You are all free to speak your mind about it, I know it is far from perfect but it was quickly done and I was not completly ashamed of it. Update will probably come though.

So here we go. First of all I urge all of you to read the About page to get a clear view on what this page is all about.

Today I decided that this is the day when this project really starts. As you should know by know the idea is to build a go-kart that runs purly on electricity but still beat a standard 28 hp (21 kW) 2-stroke ICE kart under any circumstances. I do this partly for myself and partly for the world. Yes and I know it can be done for anyone who doubts please just look at this video (in Italian, I would love a translation).

So what will be my first step in this venture?. Well as I know quite a bit about karting but have a limited network of people with whom I can collaborate I have decided to start looking for companies who are willing to sponsor or assist me. In the comming weeks I will report here on the progress and especially on parts I have aquired or investiage for the moment.

Stay tuned for more… Peter