Electric Car Conversion Automatic Transmission

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Electric car conversion automatic transmission. Or how well would my car operate if i keep the auto transmission. Usually the person doing the conversion has a donor vehicle that will act as the platform for the conversion. Implicitly this makes sense. Because they have kits specific for several cars and you can get an electric car conversion kit that is essentially plug and play.

Everyone seems to be keeping the transmission in their electric car conversions. Electric car conversion books are the place to start if you want to build an ev or convert a gas car to electric. Almost always the donor vehicle is a normal gasoline powered car that gets converted to electric. Most donor vehicles have a manual transmission.

Best of all because they also have a conversion shop and years of conversion experience plus a huge. The person doing the conversion has a lot of choices when it comes to battery technology. Joel aug 13 2007 18 22 pm. Best types of cars to convert.

An electric motor delivers. Maurice hi brian i am glad you were able to figure this out about the automatic transmission that is electronically shifted. Some of the newer conversions are very professional and well engineered. An internal combustion vehicle has a multi speed gearbox with numerous ratios.

I don t get it. Nearly every electric car has a single speed transmission. The first 2010 audi s5 with a tesla electric swap recently made headlines for incorporating the audi quattro all wheel drive system and using the transmission housing to retrofit a custom gear reduction setup. So what type of car is the best candidate for an electric conversion.

Curb weight with a manual transmission. If it s a budget conversion i d say keep the automatic. Many other projects have been mocked up along the same lines under the theory of. Let the electric motor idle just as it would with the ice.

The ev west air cooled porsche starter kit is perf. A light car 2000 3000 lbs. Electric car conversion questions. Of course i would need to mount the motor where the tranny is now and get a part milled to connect the drive shaft to the motor.

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