[ausev] New electric car conversion business in Texas?

[Christopher Robison]

Since the questions/comments are being displayed in this auction, maybe
someone should mention this to the seller?

It seems to me like the seller is well-meaning, just vastly ignorant of
what they're doing.

  --chris


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:59 -0500, Marc Kohler wrote:
> Especially since they said they have 100 mile range (I think his odometer is 
> off) with 12-12V lead acid batteries, "but don't let the voltage drop below 
> 72V"!  I bet if he did drive it 100 miles, he got close to that 72V limit 
> (controller brown out limit) and put a DEEP discharge on those batteries.
> Marc Kohler
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Hastings" <evblazer at yahoo.com>
> To: "Daniel J. Stewart" <dstewart at cortechs.com>; "AustinEV News 
> Announcements and General Discussion" <ausev at austinev.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [ausev] New electric car conversion business in Texas?
> 
> 
> > It seems the person selling the car knows little about
> > the car. They are really dancing around questions and
> > have refused test drives online and offline.
> > Their advice about not taking the batteries below 1.2
> > volts per a cell is going to make someone really
> > dissapointed when they only take it to 1.3 and think
> > they are going to get long life.
> >
> > --- "Daniel J. Stewart" <dstewart at cortechs.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I noticed on eBay item #230124714971 the seller
> >> "alaniz1701" from La
> >> Marque, TX says "This car is one of the first
> >> electric car conversions
> >> done by my new business."
> >>
> >> Anyone heard of this new business?  Could be a good
> >> reason for a road trip
> >> to Galveston.
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