Battery Vehicle Society

Looks interesting. This is the first time I have viewed this thread so looked through the whole thread from the beginning. I saw your first bench test of the motor controller. The wheel speed seemed to indicate the tractor would be quite fast. I have a ride on mower , without mowing parts, that I in...

The carry is pretty similar to my old solar van project you can find all that detailed via google. 40-45mph tops is a more realistic speed. 60mph is a big ask considering the aerodynamics of the vans. I realised the top speed might be fairly high but our round trip would only be 20 miles so was hop...

I have been offered a quite tidy Suzuki Carry van. It looks like it would make quite a good conversion. Our daily mileage would be 20 miles on one charge. Our speed requirements would be roughly 55-60mph flat out, 50mph on straight bits of road, 40mph average for the journey. A section of the rear f...

Hi, I am intending to use wind power / PV panels / diesel and possibly other energy sources to charge a number of forklift lead acid batteries. I am thinking we might use two packs of 24 cells of 2v each and about 1000Ah. I am not sure how efficient the charging and using of electricity from the bat...

How about a Suzuki Carry Van?

I have just been offered a realy tidy one.

Rob