PART THREE OF 3 DAY DAIHATSU CHARADE ELECTRIC CONVERSION

This is part three of a 25 minute video detailing a 3 day conversion in Adelaide of a 1990 Daihatsu Charade to an electric vehicle. The conversion was done by a team of enthusiastic and generous volunteers from the South Australian chapter of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association

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Science & Technology

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• Daihatsu
• Charade
• EV
• electric
• vehicle
• conversion
• Adelaide
• SAEVA
• AEVA
• Ribo
• Powersonic
• batteries
• 96V
• DC

[justmic]

It is "sort of" working. The first batteries died after about 2 years due to my ignorance...and a bit of "flogging" it to show it off. I didn't balance the batteries properly for the first 50 charges.. got scared by the bubbling and the 16V they were reaching so turned off the charger. This prevented them from being properly balanced. They died in winter. Lithium now..but not wired. Should be back on the road in the next few weeks. I also have to add that for registration it needed a bit of work

[ggggrrrrification]

wow! i cant believe this!

i would like to one of my charades electric too!!!

[amdnovello]

Wow good job! Is it still working?

[unnefer1978]

And that is assuming he uses all the available power from his battery pack - which I doubt he does as most EV owners only use between 50%-80% of the available power.

What that actually means is that the owner most likely is only using about 5kWh-8kWh of electricity per charge, which is only $2.00-$3.20 worth of electricity to travel 100km - a $6.55-$7.75 saving per 100km.

But most EV owners are not in it for saving money - most are in it to stop using petrol and to help save the environment :)

[unnefer1978]

The Daihatsu Charade uses approx 7.5L of fuel per 100km of city driving. Fuel costs $1.30/L - so that's $9.75 per 100km of city driving.

This electric conversion has a 10.5kWh battery pack and can do 50km per charge. That means he would have to charge his battery pack twice to travel 100km. That would use 21kWh of electricity. 1kWh of electric costs $0.20, so he would use $4.20 worth of electricity to travel 100km. That's a saving of $5.55 per 100km.

Then there is the greener benefit too :)

[urbex2007]

It is not worth doing, the 1000cc engine is extremely efficient and you will find the electric to charge it costs more than petrol. A diesel car is even cheaper to run! The charade was one car to advertise 100mph&100mpg in 1982. EV is limited by range and speed, drive the motor from a small generator - it's far more efficient. What your EVs lack is a charging system operating as the car moves like the Prius and Lexus. Solve that and you have a winning combination.

[davidrrrd]

save drawings and mesurments of battery racks and you can make them up faster if you stick to one make and model downer vehicle style

[fulltimetassak]

very creative work.but daihatsu charade is already nice economical car.and it s speed already on fatal limit with 1000cc engine.i think you guys just pick this car for its weight but at least has to be go over 80km or something with electrical engine.otherwise it s already very econmical car on fuel.but i like this experiment.very complicate work.congratulations!!!

[cant7think7clearly]

Gotta love that EV Grin!!!