Think your conversion's fast?

[ElectricThunder]

this (http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/04/technology/business2_wrightspeed/index.htm?cnn=yes) one is faster....;)

Based on the ariel atom, looks like it has a brushless motor, runs off of li-ions, and best of all...does 0-60 in 3 seconds...:D

[tcolesen]

I saw that! Only $100 grand too! Just wish I had a nice job and were over 18.

[Rtsbasic]

Impressive. The cost quite a bit higher than the original car though, and if I'm not mistaken, the petrol version isn't far behind performance wise. Still a damn good price for a road-legal track car.

Might need a bit more than a Duratrax ICE to charge though :D And that ESC is..massive. Wonder what top speed its capable of..probably not much, just massive acceleration.

[ElectricThunder]

Haha! It's meant to be an electric sports car (as in, not cheap by any means!). I think the guy who made it is trying to come up with a design that would be more available to a wider array of people. Although if he uses Li-Ions, that's going to be tough. :eek: I'm curious as to what top speed would be. The motor "redlines" at 13,300rpm, and it's a single speed transaxle I think, so I would imagine top end is limited (but still..13,300 RPM is more RPMs than even an RX-7's rotary engine.... :eek: )

Interesting none-the-less. They talk about the li-ions that are going to be put in power tools briefly as well (I think the same kind you're experimenting with tcoleson?).

[rcconcept]

130 km & it kills ferraris in the quarter mile.

[kufman]

would be a good match for this car

http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm

the performance specs on that page are for the lead acid version of the car. I was even better on LiIon... up to 300 mile range if I remember correctly. Ah ha found the info on the LiIon version

http://www.acpropulsion.com/LiIon_tzero_release.pdf

Reading on the homepage, the Wright car used the AcPropulsion motor and controller. Pretty cool.

[kawasakirider]

rcconcept where did it say 130 km? Man everyone drives at 140 usually on the highway must have been a crappy ferrari. I wouldn't like to be paying the electric bills of the house that charges it up. The runtime isn't very good 100 miles and takes 4.5 hours to charge you would get no where specially if you were running around a cramped city all the time.

[Rtsbasic]

kawasakirider, you've completely and utterly missed the point. Its not the sort of car you'd drive to work in, nor was the original ment to be. Its a weekend car, you know, the sort you take out for a bit of fun. A lot of people take them to track days, thats why its built to be so light and well handling as well as fast.

I thought the Ariel Atom looked farmilar - its one of the fastest cars thats gone around the Top Gear test track. IIRC a petrol one is around £20,000.

[ElectricThunder]

would be a good match for this car

http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm

the performance specs on that page are for the lead acid version of the car. I was even better on LiIon... up to 300 mile range if I remember correctly. Ah ha found the info on the LiIon version

http://www.acpropulsion.com/LiIon_tzero_release.pdf

Reading on the homepage, the Wright car used the AcPropulsion motor and controller. Pretty cool.
There's also another company coming out with something similar to the X1 I think. I forgot the name, but ironically, it's the same company Wright used to work for. I think the drivetrain in the X1 is about $25,000... :eek:

[mook]

kawasakirider, you've completely and utterly missed the point. Its not the sort of car you'd drive to work in, nor was the original ment to be. Its a weekend car, you know, the sort you take out for a bit of fun. A lot of people take them to track days, thats why its built to be so light and well handling as well as fast.

I thought the Ariel Atom looked farmilar - its one of the fastest cars thats gone around the Top Gear test track. IIRC a petrol one is around £20,000.

The supercharged aerial atom in top gear had (if memory serves) circa 300bhp. It was funny watching the G's at work on Clarksons face as he booted it down the track.

http://www.arielmotor.co.uk/04/frames.htm

[JDT]

This makes me think about how cool it would be to build a stealth ATV with a big brushless motor, technology is getting better all the time with the advancments we are making electric cars are starting to look more realistic.

[tog435]

The stumbling block to electric vehicles has never really been the motors, though undeniably they are even better now than they used to be - it's the damn batteries. Expensive as all get-out, heavy as hell, and not great in storage capacity or duration. As soon as we get some really good batteries, I think electrics will be all over :P If you can get 300-400miles per charge, rather than 50-100..... Enough said

[kufman]

it's the damn batteries. Expensive as all get-out, heavy as hell, and not great in storage capacity or duration. As soon as we get some really good batteries, I think electrics will be all over

If some of the experimental battery technologies that are currently being reviewed turn out to work, electric power will be awesome. There are a couple of them out there including low cost LiIon and a Magnesium based batteries. Both of which have roughly double the W/Kg of Pb batteries.

[fuzzychickens]

If the oil boom never happened, we'd all be driving cheaper, faster, quiter, and cleaner elecetric cars.

[GordonFreeman]

Boy I'd love to have the time and money to do something like that. I always wanted to do a hybrid though. It would be a high performance electric car with maybe half the battery capacity you'd need. Then you have a small diesel gererator (10kW) that can run at optimum speed and charge the batteries. You could use regular diesel, Bio diesel and even SVO (Straight Veg Oil).

Wheres a good place to find out about the electonics side (batteries/controller/motor)

I think Milwuakee tools are usning some new cell.

a123systems had some very interesting new cell also.