Electric E30

[ivo316]

Ok, I'm into EV's, in fact I'm building an electric neighborhood vehicle now, I saw this in I site i often visit, and thought you might be intrested.

[backtrail69]

Pretty damn neat, how do they get vacuum for the brakes?

[rThor432]

I'd like to have one of those.. no doubt.

[ivo316]

They use an electric vacuum pump, also you need another electric motor to make the power steering work, and an electric heater ceramic core,

Also it takes a major suspension upgrade because of the battery weight and a lot of steel to make battery trays. ;)

more info here:

http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/477

here's the BMW page of the site...

http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/type/BMW

[JasonC]

What did they do for heat? Use a kerosene heater like a 1961 Corvair?

[ivo316]

Here's your answer, but it's gonna take some time to read..

http://www.evsource.com/articles/heater_compare.php

Basically they use ceramic electric heaters or electric water heaters with the stock core in place. ;)

[AWDE30]

Sounds pretty easy. I might do that later in the week.

[325ise30]

I bet you he didn't remove the trunk tar and do I spot a radiator. Still a really neat elc car.

[Ray Smoodiver]

neat

[c0rnfl4k3]

I bet you he didn't remove the trunk tar and do I spot a radiator. Still a really neat elc car.

Looks like the A/C to me bud. Neat none the less.

[golde30]

cool! so how fast is it?:p

[Jand3rson]

That's pretty badass, especially with gas prices the way they are right now.

My dream is still to import a 324td, swap the engine into my car and run a turbo biodiesel.

[2002maniac]

Where's the flux capacitor?

[Jon325i]

Where's the flux capacitor?

Just to the left of the blinker fluid tank :-P

Jon

[benDASHDASH]

major props for a clean install