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Electric Vehicle

Postby Helms » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:06 pm

At my school in Nebraska, we decided to build an electrathon vehicle, that is, one that runs only on batteries. Right as of now, we just need to get our electrical system hooked up, and the plastic body put on.


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The motor mount. (over 50lbs!)
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The controller
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Re: Electric Vehicle

Postby Gunny04 » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:47 pm

Neat project you have there! Looks cool

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Re: Electric Vehicle

Postby Willit Run » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:19 pm

Looks great!!

What is the chassis made of?  Does not look like aluminum or chrome moly because it does not look like it was mig or tig welded but, just arc welded.
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Re: Electric Vehicle

Postby beaky » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:45 am

Pretty heavy frame there- I'm sure it's not meant to break any speed records. ;)

Very interesting, though... what kind of batteries will it use?
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Re: Electric Vehicle

Postby Helms » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:31 am

The frame is made of tubular steel. We would've used lighter materials, but were only allowed to spend 2500$ on the car.

As for the batteries, we can have up to 67lbs of lead-acid batteries.
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Re: Electric Vehicle

Postby Mees » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:57 am

Electric Vehicle




You'll be driving it over Electric Avenue? ;D
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