bronz said:What is the ETA and when are you going to make a thread for this project?
Doctorbass said:A guy from the Gm-volt forum is played with the ECU program and got acceleration as fast as
5.5sec 0-60mph
I think he changed the current ramp up and throttle curve etc..
Doc
leffex said:Chevy n leaf volt temperature range
http://news.fleetcarma.com/2013/12/...olt-cold-weather-range-loss-electric-vehicle/
TMaster said:I just wanted to share my experience with the Volt:
My father and brother both have 2013 Volts. My brother plugs in at the public stations charging 220V and at home on the 120V. He has gotten up to 52 miles(83 Km) on a charge before. My father has only gotten up to 45 miles. My brother has put over 7000 miles on his and only has bought 3 gallons of gas. Its been cold down here in Texas and we are seeing a 5 mile range loss from the 90F degree weather down to the 30-40F degree weather. When the outside temp is below 35F the gas engine will come on automatically till the system is warmed up. On the gas engine My father is getting 40+ mpg all the time. One thing I must ad is the car is most efficient when driving a low speeds. The highway speeds suck the battery down. It's a true in-town car. When plugging in at home it is costing about 3 cents a mile to drive the car. With the gasoline engine running is about 9 cents a mile equivalent to the gas prices down here for regular. The Honda Pilot SUV we had was around 17 cents a mile to drive in comparison.
The car weighs a lot and drives like a larger car. Feels good on the highway.
A few gripes, not a big deal, is I don't like the touch sensitive controls on the console. Sometimes I light brush against the wrong button and activate something else. I prefer push buttons. haha. Also the 2 seats in the back and leg room are pretty cramped.
I am hoping The next Volt has a 3rd seat in the back as well as more range. We will have to see what Tesla comes up with in the next 2-3 years. They are supposed to come out with a affordable car to the masses.
An electric Porsche Cayman has been my dream car for a few years now. Now someone is actually building one! I was going to recommend buying one or two Zilla controllers from Manzanita Micro until I read that you were building your own controller which is pretty awesome. We have a single 9.25 inch Warp Nine DC motor in the BMW I converted at school and it’s insanely fast. I just can't wait to see what two 11 inch motors will do. If you finish it in the next 5 months you should bring it up to Silent Thunder. My high school and I converted the BMW in 3 months, so it’s definitely a doable time frame.liveforphysics said:going to be putting a pair of big 11" motors in the engine bay of this Cayman for me.
Well... I made a website then two days after I finished it the school district changed there whole website to something new and every thing was lost. I have every thing in a word document to do it again but finding and re sizing all the pictures takes a lot of time. I would post a picture here but I don't want to hijack Dr. Bass's thread.Punx0r said:Apologies to the off-topic, but do you have any photos online of your BMW conversion, Scott? It sounds interesting
This is not really a reason at all. People don't care about charge times going up a bit if range is longer... The supercharger will be able to Charge at 135 kw soon and it uses solar with a battery bank I think. As for Charging at home how often do you think you will be charging you 100+ kwh pack from dead??? You think you will be driving 400+ km a day..... Then charging at home all the time? What I am saying most people will only need to use the car ~50-100 km a day so the batter will still only need the same amount of Kwh put into it. The amount of energy they need on a daily bases will not change because the battery is bigger.rtz said:The auto manufacturers are in an interesting quandary. A "small pack", say around 100 miles charges in the times you all are familiar with. Double the size of the pack... double the amount of time to recharge using current methods?
Sure, you can have 200 - 500+ mile range. But the recharge time.....
I think that is why Tesla drags their feet on offering a new model S with a bigger pack. It won't have impressive recharge time.
Look into the fine details about getting 3 Phase AC at your house so you can have 440V or more. How about a 660V hookup at your house?
The monthly service fee is not nice or pretty to have that connection.
Agreed but that's not a reason for Tesla to avoid putting a bigger battery in their car.Punx0r said:Scott, if you have the time to post that content in a new thread please do. I'm sure many people would be interested in reading it
Arlo, what people need and what they think they need are two different things! I've seen several times the recharge time for an EV quoted as being that when used with the lowest possible power source, like an ordinary domestic 110 or 240V socket. It is the "headline" figures that people focus on and fail to interpret those in terms of their actual need.
Punx0r said:Scott, if you have the time to post that content in a new thread please do. I'm sure many people would be interested in reading it
rtz said:The auto manufacturers are in an interesting quandary. A "small pack", say around 100 miles charges in the times you all are familiar with. Double the size of the pack... double the amount of time to recharge using current methods?
Sure, you can have 200 - 500+ mile range. But the recharge time.....
I think that is why Tesla drags their feet on offering a new model S with a bigger pack. It won't have impressive recharge time.
Look into the fine details about getting 3 Phase AC at your house so you can have 440V or more. How about a 660V hookup at your house?
The monthly service fee is not nice or pretty to have that connection.