The process of midification from gas car to electric car.
After I wrote two blogs here to tell everyone that we have come out 7kw~10kw brushless hub motor with 60V/72V digital controller for electric car and we have modified one gas car to electric.Many friends are interested.
So now I submit the process of modification.Hope it can help everyone to know the diffierence between our electric car and others.
First, check the original rear axle and tear it down.
Second,cut two sides of the axle,the length of cut axle is the same as the width of the motor.
Third,add the frame for assembling the brake and motor to the axle.
4,Put the brake on.
5,Assemble the modified axle to the car.
At last,Put the motor to the brake and add the suitable wheel and tire.
And then,you can drive the pure electric car with max speed of 80km/h on the road easily.
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Electric car was thought to be the answer for this economic and environmental crisis. Many experts even come up some inventions on how to convert gasoline engine to an electric one. And this invention can somehow regulate CO2 emission and usage of non-renewable energy sources like petroleum. However, the peapod car of Chrysler or any electric car should not only be the solution. It can spark a start to be more environment-conscious but there are still better solution for this that we must discover soon.
An NEV is (almost) useless here (in CA), since it is illegal on streets with over 35 mph speed limits.
Legally, it cannot even leave my small, 100-home subdivision.
And, $13,000 is a lot for such a limited-use "vehicle".
For me, this is just not close enough to a "real" (useful) vehicle.
An NEV is (almost) useless here (in CA), since it is illegal on streets with over 35 mph speed limits.
Legally, it cannot even leave my small, 100-home subdivision.
And, $13,000 is a lot for such a limited-use "vehicle".
For me, this is just not close enough to a "real" (useful) vehicle.
Depends on your local conditions. In Palo Alto and Los Altos they have large swaths limited to 25 miles/hr which would be useful for an NEV. But yeah limiting them to 35 miles/hr roads is very limiting, but would you want a 25 miles/hr road driving on 50 miles/hr roads? Nope.
The Xebra is a little more practical and is in the same price range as the NEV's. As a three wheeler it falls under a different classification and doesn't have the same limits. The Xebra goes 35 miles/hr and can go faster with modifications.
Can this hub motor be installed instead of rear wheels which are individually suspended?
I would like to electrify an old Toyoto Camry, keeping the FWD ICE and adding rear wheel electric drive. That way I can use a small battery pack, just enough for a single leg of my commute.
20km range are enough for me if the ICE is still there for when I need it.
Does anyone understand if / how these hub motors could be attached to all 4 wheels of a car?
Is the installation limited to certain types of axles / wheels / vehicles or can it be used an most wheels?
Can the hub motors be attached to wheels that were not "driven" prior to the EV conversion?
Are certain types of suspensions needed to allow for the extra weight of the motor in the hub?
Thanks,
Here are some pictures I was sent by Yolanda. I was hoping to modify a Geo Metro but I have not figured it out yet. They have independent suspension not a strait axle like in the pictures. I would also like to see more speed out of the hub motors.
Eric Fisher
www.SiliconeBatteriesUSA.com
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Larger wheels and / or overvolting might fix this low speed problem.
Maybe it is more suited for a SUV kind of vehicle. They can carry more extra weight and have sturdier suspensions.
Their wheels are also larger. Of course the extra weight and wind resistance makes it less efficient.
Or a van! I used to own a Toyota Hiace commuter with LWB and 2.2L diesel engine. It's wheels were slightly larger than car wheels, 62cm diameter instead of 60cm diameter. The circumference is therefore 3.3% increased and the top speed goes up to a whopping 82.6km/h!!! Impressive LOL!
How big are the wheels on a Hummer???
Here is a link to an interesting discussion about open source wheel motor development:
http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php/open-source-hub-motor-wheel-motor-14185.html
I've only read the first of many pages, so far it's a great read!
In theory, converting an existing car to electric by using powerful hub motors sounds like a clever way to go. In practice, the suspension on a normal car is not designed to handle the significant weight increase, and will not work well and could have a catastrophic failure. I read up on some cars that were designed from the start as hub motor cars (like the current Wavecrest prototype)and they had to completely re-engineer the suspension to get it to handle the heavy hub motors unsprung weight.
So it might be OK if you are building a 25 MPH putt putt, not if you are going to have a car with any kind of higher speed capability.
I don't see how the suspension would have to support any added weight as the weight is in the wheel. In this case the car suspension would carry no additional weight.
Eric Fisher
www.SiliconeBatteriesUSA.com
I don't see how the suspension would have to support any added weight as the weight is in the wheel. In this case the car suspension would carry no additional weight.
Eric Fisher
www.SiliconeBatteriesUSA.com
If I can intersperse my uneducated laymans opinion.. the weight difference is that a regular wheel with no hub motor weighs a lot less than a wheel that has a hub motor. That difference has to be accounted for in the suspension.
A couple of big powerful hub motors will add over a hundred pounds unsprung weight for the cars suspension to handle. the stresses that puts on control arms, ball joints, suspension bushings, tie rod ends and steering components (if they are in the front), shocks, etc is huge. Traditional car suspensions are not designed for that kind of weight spinning and bouncing around out there only supported by the bushings and joints. Stuff will wear out quickly, and could fail unexpectedly at speed = ouch! For a low speed vehicle, it might be OK. For something that could reach 80 KPH (48 mph) like they say, I don't think it would be a very good idea unless you really beefed everything up like they do on Rally cars or stunt vehicles.
I think this is a good development. Whenever a new component becomes available, garage experimenters can try a variety of things to see what works.
My previous home-made-hybrid donor car of choice was a rare Canadian Pontiac Firefly. It is an All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) Geo Metro. This is a small, light car with a tiny engine which gets good gas mileage.
By removing the shaft connecting the transaxle to the rear differential, an industrial electric motor can be easily adapted onto the rear wheels, with the electric motor being mounted under the rear seat.
The obvious problem is that such a car and rear axle is quite rare. There are now quite literally millions of tiny Front-Wheel-Drive (FWD) cars such as the Chevy Aveo, (made in South Korea)
With the 2008 spike up in gasoline prices there are now quite a few of the compact FWD cars such as the Fit, Yaris, and Versa that have sold well. When tiny cars like this enter the used car market, there will be a flood of experimentation, especially with hubmotors like this being readily available.
I would still prefer a small car with a rear differential and a single motor, but there are simply none available.