[ausev] Fredericksburg and JeepEV update

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Just a thought...if you want to get new batteries deployed
quickly but temporarily, you can get a small (4 foot, 130
lb) trailer from harbor freight, build a nice box and tow
them!  I'm doing that now until I can afford some Li
battereis, bc/ I don't want to cut up or weld my vehicles
chassis until then.

Good Luck!

Tom
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to let everyone know that my JeepEV and I
> won't be able to  attend the Fredericksburg Renewable
> Energy roundup this year. Thanks to  those who offered to
> help have it towed up there.
>
> The Jeep's batteries are suffering pretty badly, the
> Trojan T-875s are  miserable for this application. The
> Jeep's been out of commission for  about a month because I
> removed two of the batteries to perform in-depth
> electrical testing and teardown analysis on them at my
> work to try to  figure out in what ways they are or have
> failed.
>
> In the mean time, my mom is in Waco picking up several new
> T-875s we  found on Ebay, as none of the traditional
> battery distributors would  sell us 8-Volt batteries
> unless we bought like 20 or more (and I keep  hearing that
> Trojan is trying to phase out their 8-Volt battery line).
>
> So hopefully the Jeep will be back on the road in a few
> days, but its  range will still be severely limited (like
> 10 miles) by the dying pack.  I've got my heart set on
> switching to AGMs like the Hawker Odysseys as  soon as I
> can come up with the funds to do so. However the
> unfortunate  reality is that my battery boxes won't fit
> AGMs well in their current  configuration, and I'll
> probably have to upgrade my Zilla to a higher  voltage
> model or put up with parallel battery strings, which I'd
> like to  avoid.
>
> Good Luck at Fredericksburg,
>
> --
> -Nick
> 1988 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 EV
> http://Go.DriveEV.com/
> http://www.ACEAA.org/
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