[ausev] newbie

[Chris Robison]

This is the Wilderness EV kit for converting old VW Beetles.

At 72VDC (with the more powerful Alltrax controller, which is still not
designed for on-road vehicles) these kits still result in a painfully
underpowered car.  Additionally, there have been recent reports on the
EVDL of people getting ripped off by Wilderness, who appear to be running
a very unscrupulous operation.  Folks have ordered kits, received a few
parts and then never heard from Wilderness ever again (phone calls not
answered or returned, etc).

Stay away from these guys.

  --chris


On Tue, August 8, 2006 12:10 am, mark witt said:
> To Tanda..I found this site last night but have not really heard anything
> about them. As a fairly non tech type person I find myself repeatedly
> drawn
> to so-called "turn-key" kits. I owned a EV Rabbit once that I did not
> convert but I've kinda always wanted a super simple Bug that I could work
> on
> easily.  Anyone out there have some experience with all in one type kits
> for
> VW's  or just Bugs? Witt
>
>
> http://www.e-volks.com/about.html3.html
>
>
>>From: tunafish at io.com
>>Reply-To: tunafish at io.com,        AustinEV News Announcements and General
>>Discussion<ausev at austinev.org>
>>To: ausev at austinev.org
>>Subject: [ausev] newbie
>>Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:31:07 -0500
>>
>>Happy Monday?!
>>      I knew what I was getting into when I signed up for your e-mail
>> list;
>>therefore, I thought about it for a good while before signing up.  I am a
>>geek &
>>wanting to build my own EV.  I want technical info - that is why I signed
>>up.
>>Thank you for all the work you all have put into this!!!
>>
>>      I am currently looking for a good donor car ... beetle,
>> ghia,...???.
>>Prefer trunk (can be small- like beetle), manual transmission, air-cond..
>>I am
>>NOT a car person, so if you tell me a model or nick-name - I may have to
>> go
>>look
>>it up, or ask a car person.
>>
>>     Have fun!!  PS- I get lots of e-mail & don't always look carefully &
>>don't
>>check every day.  Thanks!
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Tanda
>>
>>
>>Mark Farver wrote:
>>
>> > Ric Sternberg wrote:
>> >
>> > >While it is pretty exciting to see all the interest in electric
>>vehicles
>> > >(particularly from 11 year olds - our future - GO MAX), I too must
>> cry
>> > >"uncle". I guess I signed up to receive this stuff but didn't know
>> what
>>I
>> > >was getting into. Would whoever is in charge please remove me from
>> the
>>list?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > We talked about this.. I felt that people signing up for the mailing
>> > list would be like you. Expecting an announcement style mailing list
>> > containing infrequently news and information.  Normally our discussion
>> > list is not nearly this busy or technical, but with the influx of
>> people
>> > it is experiencing a bit of a rise.
>> >
>> > Would it be ok if we move your email address to a quieter list
>> featuring
>> > only news and announcements?
>> >
>> > How do the other new members feel about this, did you have an
>> > expectation that you were signing up for announcements, or a
>> discussion
>> > forum?
>> >
>> > Mark Farver
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