www.ForkenSwift.com - First power-up of the freshly installed forklift hydraulic pump motor in our beer budget, low speed, Geo Metro electric vehicle conversion. --- Project ForkenSwift is an electric car conversion made using parts from a Suzuki Swift, Geo Metro, Baker electric forklift and a golf cart. http
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hey i live in ontari also! im just finishing my 99 accent gsi cnversion. i have a question though, what did you have to do to get the car road legal, did you have to take it to soem special garage to get a proper saftey??
thanks
wait, u kinda lost me with no oil thing :S
That was so moving …….. okay it was standing still but it was still moving.
Thanks for sharing.
this is what I want to do I want to take a small car that will fit a family of 4 in for local tripps to like the stor ect or up to 100 mile range or more and then for longer trippes have a gas car or truck that I can just tow the electric car behind it for tripps and use the electric for driving a round town ect I want and electric car realy bad
Electric cars are very silent, the noise is because you are using an electric engine with brushes (that has friction) instead of one with permanent magnets ( that doesn’t); with those you’ll get a hum sound instead.
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ok creo que los vehiculos electricos no seran muy atractivos hasta que tengan una autonomia de por lo menos 500 millas o mas para viajes en carretera. en este momento estoy trabajando en eso dentro de unos 20 dias prometo publicar el video de la primera motocicleta convertida a electrica con esta autonomia 500 millas.
I still have a gas car for highway trips, and it’s the same kind: 1.0L, 3-cylinders.
Search on the evalbum(.)com – you can search by location to see who has an electric car near you.
It’s a manual transmission.
i youse to drive one of them but i relly miss that little car as it was so cheep on gas
Right now all we are really waiting on is the batteries. But no one will develope them until a large amount of people is making their own and interested in electric cars.
People like nice cars. Even if they mainly only use them for daily commutes. And if i’m going to spend thousands on a car, i want it to fulfill all my needs, both daily commute, and long trips alike. Ya know?
yeah but all this mumbo jumbo is really a stupid idea…..most of the people use their cars to travel under 100 miles….school, work…..so why not make a car, that is as cheap as possible and that charges overnight in a house plug….
and for the big distances….if electric is a must, hybrids have prooven to be quite good at it, with both a gas and electric engine.
What they’re having such a hard time doing is coming up with an electric, that has all the characteristics of the ICE cars we have now. You know 300+ mile range, rather than like 40, even with a top speed of 100+ mph, able to “fuel” in mere minutes rather than hours. Building one of these is rather easy…..EXPENSIVE, but still easy. Only hard part is machining the mount, and coupling the stator to the input shaft of the trans.
Ok, dude, are you in Ontario? It looked like Ontario plates and then the “eh” haha.
Super Cool. I was thinking of doing the same thing.
Would be great to know someone not too far away who is something like that.
Thanks for posting.
The music was great! I want to build one one day and I’m sure after all the fuss and bother and EXPENSE of putting one together, I’ll be playing music like that too!!!!! It’s quite an accomplishment, apparently one that our wonderful auto makers are really fighting doing.
problem is, i see no torque converter, how you pumping fluid through your trans???
Hi, thanks for your response, we got it figured out, yeah it has two sets of contacts on the motor itself, not sure what he did, he’s (the motor) in PA and Im in WA but it works and he is happy, thanks again, Scott.
Do you mean two sets of terminals on the motor? Check over at the evconvert [.] com web site – there’s a schematic showing how he hooked his up, if you’ve got a series motor. Otherwise, try posting a question at the ecomodder (.) com forum or diyelectriccar (.) com
Hi again, got the motor running the cart but wrong direction of rotation, our motor has two sets of those contacts, does yours ??
Hi, so can a person simply hook up 36 volts to those two posts and which one is positive ??
Who taught you manners?
FYI, the pump motor is more than adequate for the job. Suitable for over-volting as well (but no plans to upgrade from 48v.)
It’s been driving the car now for over a year and a half with no problems, capable of moving the car at up to 45 mph.
For full details visit the web site: forkenswift [dot] com
you used the wrong type of motor and you are going about it all wrong. i am building an electric sprint and i dont why you did what you did. i used the traction motor from the drive of an electric forklift. i have no clutch system, its direct drive, i only use 1st and reverse gear. i run a solar panel array on the roof to power the 12 volt and have an alternator connected to the final drive as well. i am also looking at a regenerative braking system to charge the 48 volt as well