An Electric Vehicle Conversion in a Garden Shed

This video, made for the Mechanicsburg Earth Day Festival, Saturday, April 24, 2010, in Mechanicsburg, PA, is an overview of my electric vehicle (EV) conversion from beginning to end covering many of the critical parts of the electric Saturn project. I had the video looping on a TV next to the exhibit of my Saturn EV conversion.

My hope was to draw people to my booth with this video, but the picture on the TV was too hard to see in the outside light and the video itself was just too long, 10 minutes. It was simply the wrong venue to play this kind of a video -- lesson learned.

All in all I spoke with a very diverse group of people about my EV conversion and electric car technology in general. This was the first public showing of my electric car, it was a good day great day.

For more information about my electric Saturn, please visit www.zuglet.com

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[zugletev]

Yes, the lead acid battery pack has been replaced with a lithium pack. This doubled the energy storage capacity and cut the weight in half.

[PhantomDaydream]

Also what kind of couplers do you use to charge it?

[zugletev]

@PhantomDaydream The car is actually green, it just looks black on the video. I'm using sealed lead acid batteries -- but am switching to lithium. I'm not sure what you mean by couplers, but the sealed lead acid batteries were being charged with dual pro multi-bank chargers onboard. This setup was too heavy and inefficient.

[dahduke]

Awesome job

how many hours between battery charges , whats the top speed and distance ?

[zugletev]

@dahduke Top speed is 55 mph, range is about 30 miles, charge time is 8 hours. The main problem is the battery pack. I am considering the lithium options.

[tomsanut]

out standing wow can you say how much the total in cost was? again a great video

[cobbleup]

Love your video. It's now Feb/2012, have you tried any upgrades yet?

[daswada9]

can you use solar panel on the roof of the car to charge it ?

[PhantomDaydream]

Repainting the car from black/midnight blue would increase battery life a hell of alot since the heat from the sun also drains battery life,

What type of batteries have you tried & what were their general range on the EV?

[73SDR]

Turn the DRL's off, that'll be less of a system drain. I've got mine off, an no one has ever run into me after 10 years.

[stylus880]

salute.



[MrRachet64]

well done how many hours to get to run