Just saw this electric speedster conversion kit.
https://www.evwest.com/catalog...&products_id=225
You will still need to add another $1500 or so in batteries.
Total equipment price with battery looks to be about $9k
Who's up for the challenge?
-=theron
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@Tom Marantz recently converted his wife's Mini-Morris to electric over the winter.
Maybe I can get him to comment on his experience.
So you just leave it in 3rd gear all the time? Does it use a clutch disc - where for more miles you could shift to 4th? Is motor polarity reversed for reverse?
There you go. The inevitable future.
"The inevitable future"
Not for me, it's not.
Viable looking kit and reasonably priced. Motor is small and low volt but AC with regen braking is a big plus. A decade ago when I was looking at doing Bridget as a DC car it was going to cost me that much at least for a lead acid setup at 120 volts with a Warp 9 motor and I concluded it would not quite have the range I needed to commute to and from work. That range was 40 miles.
Things have gotten much better and more interesting.
@WOLFGANG: yeah, electric motors have the flattest torque curve evar. This one is 120 ft-lbs from 1 rpm to about 10,000 rpm so third is good. Also second is good. Fourth would be good as well. And of course you could also use a fifth if you wanted bragging rights. The gear selection would not affect power usage (mileage) very much though.
You keep the clutch and transaxle for reverse.
@DannyP posted:"The inevitable future"
Not for me, it's not.
X2. Never, never, never...
But then, there’s THIS........
Not for me ....
@Gordon Nichols posted:But then, there’s THIS........
Yeah, F Elon and his fairy dust BS. Same load on the "carbon signature". It just shifts it to the coal and diesel powerplants instead of burning a little dinosaur doo-doo directly. It's a shell game. The sheep can have their electric crap.
@DannyP posted:"The inevitable future"
Not for me, it's not.
You know where I stand.
@DannyP posted:Yeah, F Elon and his fairy dust BS. Same load on the "carbon signature". It just shifts it to the coal and diesel powerplants instead of burning a little dinosaur doo-doo directly. It's a shell game. The sheep can have their electric crap.
Tell us how you really feel, Danny. 
Not a problem, my friend!!!
P.S.: Wanna go kick some butt and find out where your cylinder heads are?
I feel like you're missing a zero on the batteries but it's been a while since I checked
