Battery Vehicle Society

Nice one , good bit of research

I have to say Reading is somewhat better for myself to get to , not sure about others though

Currently we have 7 folks on board I recon if we can get 8+ then we can look at running it

Chris

clnbrtltt wrote:Claiming for all this is extremely complicated .........

Why does that not surprise me you would think if they wanted folk to do this they would make it as easy as possible for them.

ChrisB

Ah so now I understand why I wasnt getting the problem as I wasnt using any saved book mark to get to the forum

So who fiddled with the forum page then .........dont look at me

ChrisB

Hi and welcome to the BVS From the sounds of it the vehicle you need is a Berlingo, it does exactly what you want 50miles range and a top speed of 65mph 8) And its ready made and waiting for you to drive, building a conversion can actually be quite expensive and time consuming, I learnt that one whe...

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ChrisB

Poor bloke makes you feel a bit guilty buying them

ChrisB

Wow love the Li-ion cell butchering

As Granada says whats it all like in there , how nasty is it is ?? and why the heck do they cost so much, doesnt look like theres 100's of quids worth of internals

ChrisB

Nice work TFP, good tip there using a picasso one

As for the joint wearing out due to the charging socket being on that side I dont think we have enough data to say that for sure

ChrisB

And how urgent do people think the problem is? Depends how much you want to get a refund on a duff battery , as Electricvehicles says , sounds like you might have a duff cell in a new battery, I've even had a brand new Yuasa go down on me during the first cycle :cry: needless to say it got swapped ...

Only a quicky as I'm currently having to deal with other matters :roll: but just wanted to say what a great time we all had and from memory we took on about 6 new members 8) I've got a few pics that if I get time I'll bung up :wink: Great to see everyone and thanks again to Rob for sorting this one ...