Converting your car to Electric instead of gasoline.

HEHEHE OK here is another thought... Mutable electric motors !
instead of one big one have 3 or 4 small ones... or 8 even....
this opens up the possibility of using the super high and efficient model airplane motors...
but it would probably cost more that way than one big one ! LOL
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but the idea is sound enough if the price of the smaller electric motors is low enough to make it worth all the extra parts needed to do this and all the Hassel too
... perhaps 2 golf Kart electric motors ?
...rated at say 10 ~ 15hp each , because from what I can gather from all my reading a small car only needs 20hp to 30hp in an electric motor to move it quite well... the batterys needed for that size is around 8 to 12... deep cycle batteries which cost over $100 each
(so we're talking $1200.00 bucks right there.)
And at EVparts.com a good electric motor will cost you around $2500.00~$3500.00 for ONE large electric motor big enough to power the vehicle.
Now when you add a Store bought CONTROLLER say 400amp capacity that's another $750.00
and if you add all the cables and circuit breakers and plug in's and such another $1000.00 there
...so On the High side of going out and just buying the parts and assembling it at home , we're talking something like $6450.00 !
... But if like me you scrimp on every penny you could use automotive batteries at about $75.00 each (or less if you catch them on sale)=$900.00
and say 2 golf kart motors at $600.00 each =$1200.00
(I'm not sure if you could run 2 motors with 1 controller or not, but the lower amp motor controllers are MUCH cheaper than the higher amp ones but lets just figure one big one ....$750.00
.... and scrounging for some of your cabling and parts will save a bunch at least Half ...$500.
and that amounts up to $3350.00....for a Minimum cost.
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all in all its an expensive undertaking... and one thing I don't have is LUMPS of money at any given time.... my money trickles in and that makes big ticket items very hard to get!.
... so from the LOOKS of things My electric car conversion is going to have to wait for quite a while... although I can slowly gather up parts most of the stuff needed is going to have to be purchased in one form or another.
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There is however another possibility if you have a spare 10hp ~12hp motor laying around... you can attach it to a large alternator and go in Hybrid mode... this allows for fewer batteries (less weight too).... but if you have to purchase these items, chances are this method will wind up costing you quite a bit more.
...(6~8 batteries instead of 12)
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fwiw
Bob.....