#1) Project ForkenSwift electric car conversion: 1st powerup

http://www.ForkenSwift.com - First power-up of the freshly installed forklift hydraulic pump motor in our beer budget, low speed, Geo Metro electric vehicle conversion.

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Project ForkenSwift is an electric car conversion made using parts from a Suzuki Swift, Geo Metro, Baker electric forklift and a golf cart.

http://www.forkenswift.com

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• EV
• electric
• car
• conversion
• vehicle
• NEV
• LSV
• auto

[vivitar45]

i youse to drive one of them but i relly miss that little car as it was so cheep on gas

[ForkenSwiftDotCom]

I still have a gas car for highway trips, and it's the same kind: 1.0L, 3-cylinders. :)

[smazz104]

Ok, dude, are you in Ontario? It looked like Ontario plates and then the "eh" haha.

Super Cool. I was thinking of doing the same thing.

Would be great to know someone not too far away who is something like that.

Thanks for posting.

[ForkenSwiftDotCom]

Search on the evalbum(.)com - you can search by location to see who has an electric car near you.

[THEtechknight]

problem is, i see no torque converter, how you pumping fluid through your trans???

[ForkenSwiftDotCom]

It's a manual transmission.

[AxLstyle]

yeah but all this mumbo jumbo is really a stupid idea.....most of the people use their cars to travel under 100 miles....school, work.....so why not make a car, that is as cheap as possible and that charges overnight in a house plug....

and for the big distances....if electric is a must, hybrids have prooven to be quite good at it, with both a gas and electric engine.

[thegoosebrain]

The new Chevy volt gets a pathetic 40 miles on a charge and they tout the car as thou it's something out of this world fantastic! I've seen conversion cars here on youtube that get 200 miles on charge.

[jeffrey19621]

Good work ! This is what America used to be about people solving problems and improvising. Dont worry of the comments of detractors sitting in moms basement masterbating alternating between porn and some bullshit VDO games.

Jeff

[Dorisequador]

I developed a way you can get unlimited power.. never dies if you share with me your engine and transmition hookup.. For silence your electric motor must have a quiet design which is a different way of being built we can work on that later.

[Milwaukeebosch]

Hey I like how you mount motor to transmission.

Do you use clutch or just direct? I have hard time figure how you can shift without clutch they grind.

[KinoFilm21]

super awesome !!! great project....

[pbmartin14]

hey i live in ontari also! im just finishing my 99 accent gsi cnversion. i have a question though, what did you have to do to get the car road legal, did you have to take it to soem special garage to get a proper saftey??

thanks

[mvlady]

wait, u kinda lost me with no oil thing :S

[TheDoyleClan]

That was so moving ........ okay it was standing still but it was still moving.

Thanks for sharing.

[mccunecp]

this is what I want to do I want to take a small car that will fit a family of 4 in for local tripps to like the stor ect or up to 100 mile range or more and then for longer trippes have a gas car or truck that I can just tow the electric car behind it for tripps and use the electric for driving a round town ect I want and electric car realy bad

[12311981]

Electric cars are very silent, the noise is because you are using an electric engine with brushes (that has friction) instead of one with permanent magnets ( that doesn't); with those you'll get a hum sound instead.