[ausev] My "new" car (August meeting!)

[m. howse]

I'm need four batteries but I'm poor. How much or would you trade for a  
donor car?

marv



On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:49:19 -0500, Aaron Choate <achoate at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can answer the last one...
> The August meeting will be a two parter.  They will both be at the REI at
> 6th and Lamar.
>
> Thursday, August 6 at 7:00 pm there will be a presentation --
> Electric Vehicles: Today & Tomorrow
>
> Saturday, August 8 from 9:00am - 11:00 am --
> we will be showing AustinEV member cars in the REI parking lot.
>
> For a PDF of the flyer you can hopefully grab it from this link:
> http://www.austinev.org/events/austinev-rei-2009-08.pdf
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aaron Choate
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:43 AM, John Pearce <pearce78746 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> I just received the EV that I bought from Charlie Wilson of Huntsville  
>> AL
>> (maybe you saw his car listed recently on the EV Trading Post).  It is a
>> very nice conversion job on a 2000 Toyota Corolla using Trojan T-1275
>> batteries.
>>
>> The car is presently set up for 144 volts with 12 batteries.
>> Experimentation shows that it will perform much better at 96 volts with  
>> only
>> 8 batteries due to saving 330 lbs of weight in the trunk.  I have 2
>> questions:
>>
>> 1.  Does anybody have a 96 volt charger that they would like to sell?
>>
>> 2.  Is anyone interested in 4 very slightly used (about 30 charge  
>> cycles,
>> and not abused) Trojan T-1275 batteries?
>>
>> BTW:  If anyone may be interested, I think that Electro Automotive has  
>> the
>> design for the motor adaptor plate for this car.  It bolts onto the
>> transmission housing and retains the Toyota clutch and flywheel.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John Pearce
>>
>> P.S.  Did I read correctly that we will not be having meetings at the
>> Terrazas Branch Library anymore?  If so, where will the August 8  
>> meeting be,
>> please?
>>
>> Sorry, that was 4 questions.  :-)
>>
>>
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