Electric Car Conversion 101 part 005

[ElectricAvenuesIRE]

"Roll Of Ho's" LOL

[ElectricAvenuesIRE]

What 1 person disliked this? This man is sitting here handing out free information. Shame on you. These are great videos.

[SENTINELREPORT]

Thank you very very much for sharing your project with all of us. Amazing !! We can convert our existing cars like this yet we are faced with ridiculously expensive new electric cars. What a fantastic thing to do. convert existing cars and make continued use of perfectly sound chasis, transmissions, interiors.. I hope one day I can raise the cash to carry out a successful conversion...

[billydudeiskewl]

how did you attach the coupler to the motor shaft? it isn't splined so wouldn't it just slip at high speeds?

[rsoneill21]

@billydudeiskewl Wouldn't the high speed and pressure hold it in place? I think it allows for it to go wrong instead of breaking your whole motor, you just replace some plastic?

[usaamerica1]

sorry if i missed it, but where did you acquire this parts from, im looking but i dont get actual prices to get an idea of how much it cost, i like your videos, this will take us awya from all this oil based cars, i know that its not totally because we still need power plants but hey if we demand our goverment to drill our own oil we wont have to depend on foreing oil, thanks for the video and info.

[BenjaminNelson]

@usaamerica1

Most of the parts for this project were salvaged. The electric motor and AC drive for it, and batteries all came from recycling. The individual battery chargers were ordered off E-bay.

Entire cost of this project, including buying the car was in the neighborhood of $3000. Do a web search for "electric vehicle parts" to find costs for "off-the-shelf" parts.

[terryfreeman84]

the LOVE JOY couplings that ive ever used were a pain in my butt they kept striping out i mean after allignment an degreeing i no how hard it was changing tose out i can imagine how hard it would be changing one out in your set up a days work i would say,,i finally done away with the love joy an ordered 2 gears that fit my shafts an it is driven by a double row chain it dosnt never strip or give any trouble by chaining it together ,,

[str8out]

Centering that cooper pipe didn't seem like a very scientific accurate way. Overall, great vid, thanks for it.

[andreagrech89]

hi! i have a small question... in these videos you are installing the electric motor to a gearbox, however you didnt use the old gearbox of the car. Is there any particualar reason for this? I'm thinking to doing a similar project by salvaging an old forklifter motor and controller to fit them in an old fiat panda. It would basically save on getting another gearbox. thanks a lot and great job with the explaining and vids!!they're top notch :D

[BenjaminNelson]

@andreagrech89 This motor DID go back on the transmission.

(I think it may have been a slightly different version of the same transmission. The guy Tom got the car from is a big Neon buff - I think he swapped the ACR tranny for a standard one.)

Anyways, basically the electric motor went back on a more or less stock transmission - not some fancy one at additional cost.

[amartinjoe]

Amazing...amazing....amazing!!­!!! Thanks a million for making this! I work for a battery company servicing industrial forklift batteries and I'm planning to convert my Dodge Neon to electric.....this video is DEAD ON!!

I wil be converting my 98 Neon next year......and I will be calling it....the ELECTRIC NEON.

thanks again man!

[dulo123]

Is not done yet the: "Electric Car Conversion 101 part 006,...007...008" ??

[dulo123]

where is the: "Electric Car Conversion 101 part 006"

[silverpizza100]

why dont you cut that shafy on the motor?

[el22dearg]

Question: which motor is that?... and what car are you planing to convert?.... thanks for the vids.

[BenjaminNelson]

It's a Baldor industrial AC motor. The car is a Dodge Neon.

Watch the other videos in the series for everything else you need to know.

[thegoosebrain]

@BenjaminNelson Did you mention how much you paid for that AC motor?

[BenjaminNelson]

@thegoosebrain

No I didn't. The project is Tom's. He's the guy on the camera. I'm the guy behind the camera. Tom works in salvage and recycling. Sometimes he can find real interesting things for free or cheap. This motor and the drive to run it came out of some sort of industrial equipment. If he didn't get it free, he got a good deal on it.

[JeanAlesiAgain2]

thank you for the videos BenjaminNelson

[electro5]

Ok. Thx alot. Will you show us how to connect the batteries adn such?

[electro5]

Where's part 006

[luc444]

I would love to do this to my car. More people need to.

@ 5:58 minute mark is the best quote.

[evric2008]

Why not just make up your mind on where you want the motor and drill one set of holes? Two lots of hole 3/8" apart will be touching??? Drilling out the Lovejoy will weaken it.

[Templarzealot89]

What type or modle of electric motor did you guys use?

[vinmassa]

isnt that a wood drill-bit

[Olaftr]

The saw used is usually called Bimetal and is designed for wood or metal. Just watch the packaging to make sure its rated for both.

[vinmassa]

thanks tom .

[Olaftr]

There are trade offs between aluminum and steel:

1) Aluminum of the same strength would be twice a thick (but still lighter)

2) I'm better at welding steel than aluminum.

A face mount motor makes more sense to use Aluminum, you have less air flow area and you don't need to weld 2 pieces together.

The motor (20 HP) I'm using doesn't transfer much heat to the mounting plate, its cooling is based on air flow.

[falcon02012]

you should have used aluminum for 2 reason

1-lighter 2-will act as heat sink

you don't need to cut the shaft just use tube spacer between the plat and transmission

what is the HP of this motor ?

keep the video coming thank you and good luck