In the early days, electric cars were a sizable part of the market, especially in cities, where travel distances were short and electricity for charging was easily available. Vehicles with motive power from electricity have been around since the beginning of the motor car industry. Keep hoping that some advanced alien race doesn't put an electrical dampening field on the Earth. Without electricity, we'd soon be back to stone knives and bearskins. The use of electricity has become the cornerstone of our modern civilization.
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The front batteries and controller, as well as the compressor for the ARB Air Lockers.Īn Electric Powered Land Rover That Gets Down and Dirty in Moab, Utah although I see me spending most of my time in 2nd gear and 2wd. I think leaving the clutch and 4wd in place is a good idea for me. Also not the first time a Nissan Power plant was installed in a Scout HAHAHAHA! I would hope to reconfigure the cells in the battery to fit between the frame rails. They were rated at 107HP so that must be an improvement over my 50 year old 152 rated at 83(?). Cosmetically beat up Leaf lease returns regularly go for $4-6K around here and some have updated batteries as some of the older ones had higher than expected degradation and were replaced under warranty. My next step is to determine if I can use a Nissan Leaf (pretty much the Model T of EV's) as a donor vehicle for a swap. The cool thing he mentioned was that if I buy the parts he could probably find a school program to do the swap for me. This was old school though with a DC motor and lead acid golf cart or forklift batteries. I have a buddy who designed a curriculum for STEM programs at high schools and community colleges where they converted an old S10 to an ev. There is a guy in my town that has a 60's Mustang convertible that he has converted to electric, next time I see him I'm going to ask him to take some pictures. I don't want to have the roof on my scout, let alone one with a solar panel, I do understand that there isn't enough space to do anything up there anyway. I have solar panels on the roof of my house that currently power my home and supply about 15,000 miles a year of electricity for my EV. I already have chargers at $work and $home and my commute is only 15 miles.
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I have never used the 4wd, I have a Land Cruiser for adventures (read heated seats, lockers, AC and a kick ass stereo) Range isn't the biggest issue for me, however the VW's in the link get 75-100 miles per charge which should be plenty. I use one gas tank and rarely put more than 5 gallons in at a time. I putt it around on the weekends, to baseball games and soccer practices or general errands and joy riding I use it as an excuse to hang out in the garage and get some peace. I figure I should tell you guys a bit more of how I use my Scout.