S2000 Electric Vehicle First Drive

[RatchetandClankNXTG3]

Whered you get the motor from? oh and is that nice F20 motor for sale? :] jk but nice work!

[jabbamagnus]

Very nice.

[leadguitarist05]

nice work, but that squaling noise it makes everytime you take off would drive me absolutely insane!

[jon350]

It's too noisy! Listen to all the pebbles the tires are picking up!! lol ...Excellent build!

[LDMrasta]

you should have had your wife, with the camera dirve in the car with you. it'd give a better feel of how the car accelerates, idles, decelerates and so on. you have any idea on the max speed you'll be able to maintain/achieve?

PROPS on the major work though, no doubt really impressive.

[brianblocher]

She was holding our 6 month old at the time so a drive with her wasn't possible. That video IS coming and hopefully soon. I'll probably be doing a second video after that which is focused only on acceleration and top speed and other performance areas. The car doesn't idle, nothing is moving or making noise when you're stopped on the less the vacuum pump kicks on for a couple seconds :)

[jayrobot33]

awesome ride man!

[brianblocher]

I've added a walk through video showing what's in the car for those interested.

[ssgtakeo]

Awesome stuff, I'd love to see what it can do on the track.

[g02custom]

Considering all the weight, thrown off balance, and raised center of gravity, not much I'd wager.

[ssgtakeo]

g02custom, since you seem to know so much about the project I have the following questions for you:

1. how much over or under the stock weight is the new electric S2000.

2. How much of the original powertrain was retained?

We can't answer the weight distribution question from the information the builder has put out but two scales can fix that.

Even more importantly it's easy for people to criticize what other people do, it's a very difficult thing to be doing the doing. I await an answer.

[g02custom]

I was a bit blunt, I admit, but my reasoning is as follows: an S2000 is a sports car; it was designed to be balanced, have a low CoG, and high power. If you EV'd a Fit, I could understand why you'd reply like that, but you took out weight in the bottom and added weight higher in the car (and batteries aren't exactly light). I have no doubt that you put a lot of work into the car, and it's an impressive build, but if you think my comments are out of line, take it to a track and prove me wrong.

[ssgtakeo]

In a nutshell, you commented and didn't know shit about the development, the weights of the components involved, or any of the engineering that went into this project.

You approached this one-off using a set of assumptions that may not have been (and I can tell you for sure are not) in fact, true.

Therefore before you get online and smacktalk about someone's hard work I suggest you get online and do some reading about what this guy's done before you shoot your mouth off.

[g02custom]

Man, don't even try to sound tough. _YOU_ said you'd like to know what it'd do around a track. I posted my opinion. Note the "I'd wager" at the end of my first reply. More weight, with more of it up high... simple physics. Or is that above your head along with simple reading comprehension?

[350Zed]

Great concept, lousy video. Next time coach your wife to be descriptive about the car, the build process, etc. rather than just cracking jokes. That way we'll get a better appreciation for what we're watching. That said, kudos on such a brave engineering feat!

[brianblocher]

LOL she doesn't know anything about it :)

I plan on adding another video with a walk through on the components used and an in car test drive as soon as the sun comes back out here.

[350Zed]

Cool... I'm suscribing in anticipation! :)

[brianblocher]

In the description there is the link to the blog which goes into a great amount of detail as well.

[synchro505]

What's that high pitched sound I hear when the the car is about to accelerate?

[brianblocher]

That's the trademark Curtis Controller sound. It happens at low throttle position only. You don't even hear unless you're babying the throttle. The sound is the electronics switching the high 144 volts down to 24 volts but greatly increasing the amps. This protects the motor during near stall conditions.

[brianblocher]

It's also not nearly as loud in person as it seems in the video.

[h2junkey]

Very nice!

[alanafalcon]

Awesome job guys!

[sockosockosocko]

congrats on your progress. great website too. i guess i hit the half-way mark today with my conversion. best of luck.

[acv30]

hey you just killed the VTEC!

nice work on that car anyways..

but i wouldnt do that if i were you...lol

[robbussum]

Why would you do that to an S2000? That car was meant to roar. A slow pinto would smoke it now.

[SpyderRios]

if you know anything about electric cars you will not be saying that. Check Tesla roadster for some performance numbers.

[wowwitsgau]

the tesla roadster is a huge flop lol... do some research its not just about numbers

[SpyderRios]

can you be more specific. I know a lot about the tesla, so you tell me what the flops are. I know is not perfect car but tell me the flops.