[ausev] The real original vehicle, was Phoenix debut event

[Aaron Choate]

If what you are saying is that this is not a ground up electric vehicle
design.  I agree with you.  However, I don't think I would call it a
conversion.

These vehicles are probably not going to be delivered as gas powered
vehicles and then have their guts removed to then receive an electric drive
train.  I expect that they will be delivered as gliders and then produced
with an electric drive as their original method of getting around.

Were the factory produced Ranger, S-10, Rav-4 and Honda EV+s conversions?

No.  They may have been based on their gas powered brothers and sisters;
they used the same designs, frames, bodies and other parts, but they were
PRODUCED in quantity as electric vehicles and they never saw the light of a
gasoline powered day.  They were the electric versions of a production
vehicle.  Even the Tesla Roadster isn't entirely a ground up design.  These
companies are concentrating on the important part of producing electric...
getting the electric car on the road.

What we saw at the unveiling was the running prototype.  I expect that the
ones that they deliver to buyers will look and feel more like a factory
produced vehicle.

Anyway, its just my opinion, but I think what we (and conversion companies)
are doing in our garages are conversions.  What companies like Phoenix (and
the Henney Coach Company and Jet Electric before them) are doing are taking
delivery of unfinished gliders and working out how to produce electric
vehicles in quantity on an assembly line.

Cya,

Aaron Choate


On 3/9/07, Chris Robison <eeyore at phototropia.org> wrote:
>
> Ah ha -- it's not the Musso exactly, but rather the models which will
> replace them in their market:
>
> The SsangYong Actyon (SUV)
> http://www.smotor.com/en/showroom/actyon/main.jsp
>
> and the Actyon Sports (SUT)
> http://www.ssangyong.co.nz/actyonsports.html
>
> So, I guess I don't really know what the hell their "designer" did. This
> looks like a straight up conversion, just with parts that us little people
> can't afford.  :-)
>
>   --chris
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, March 9, 2007 5:27 pm, Christopher Robison wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:06 -0600, Mark Farver wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Interestingly a similar vehicle was shown at the 2005 Vancouver EDTA
> >> conference by "Boschert Engineering"
> >>
> >> http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=940
> >>
> >>
> > And, notice where else we see the Boschart Engineering name -- on a
> > sticker on the Phoenix SUT as it was being demonstrated to President
> Bush:
> >
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/yr3rxu
> >
> >
> > Curious...
> >
> >
> >
> > --chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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