Custom builds or home-built electric motorcycles

This may not be the fastest but it is fun. My 11 grader built this for a school shop project.
24V 400Amp 9600 Watts w/Etek motor all power. And about a 40~45mile range.

Hello Everyone,

I am very excited to find a message board full of people passionate about electric vehicles. I'm sure you have heard this before, but i just saw "who killed the electric car" the other day and was totally inspired. I am currently working on plans to build a full electric Sport Moped. What i mean by that is a moped (yes the 30 year old things with 50cc 2 stroke engines and pedals) retrofitted with a powerful electric engine that will allow a cruising speed of 45mph.

Edit: 5/12/07 updated specs

Edit: 3/30/08 Removing circuit breaker. It is not a reliable disconnect. Instead I'll use the SW200 contactor as the emergency disconnect, and have the clutch cable run to a switch that is in the circuit powering the SW200 contactor coil.

First two pics were recovered by archive team, thanks!

Was going to wait till I had it done, but they made me jump to gun and take a few more pics of the bike as it is now. Now I got to hustle and get this sucker rolling!

The GomiCycle electric motorcycle conversion using (mostly) scrap materials is a report on some people who converted a Honda Rebel 250 to electric drive. They used a PERM 132 motor @ 48 volts, and got parts from Electric Motorsport.

Does anyone remember the guy from the old forum who convert a sport bike to electirc using 2 PMG132 motors? He did it while maintaining the dimensions of the original bike, so that the fairings still fit. I'm trying to build an EV, and have some questions for him.
thanks,
M

I found this motorcycle on eBay last August (cost = $900 :jawdrop: ). A guy in Napa had built it but for some reason (I neglected to ask) he wanted to sell the thing. He'd been careful to try and make it street legal so it could easily be registered.

The motorcycle is a 1980's era Suzuki. The rear end is from a golf cart. He said he found one with the beefiest motor you could get, for a golf cart. It's a 48 volt and he most strongly recommended not running it at any higher of a voltage. The controller is a very large Curtis. The battery pack is 80 amp-hour.