EV Tranit Mk6 Upgrade to Zero Emisions

[karl]

I'm lost (yeah nothing new), have we actually established how much battery capacity this is going to have?

Is that it Mike, no other comments???????? ......
must be an imposter

[emlclcy]

Not wanting to sound negative, but the chances of a home made electric vehicle achieving two hundred miles at sixty miles per hour is about as likely as your chances of winning the lottery without buying a ticket.
Spending a no doubt large amount of money converting a van that's about 15 years old strikes me as complete and utter madness

Most of the main stream conversions use a rwd van, and ditch the engine and gearbox.

But good luck!

I saw an electric motor tractor project, they just replaced the engine with a fork truck motor driving straight into the gearbox

[stevo]

Sounds very interesting, can't wait to see the finished product. Would be ideal if you're doing local work such as a local handyman/plumber/electrician etc. I'm surprised the Royal Mail hasn't adopted electric vans, very rarely do we do over 20 miles a day and the fiat doblos are a nightmare with the dpf cleaning all the time.


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[Mike]

I'm surprised the Royal Mail hasn't adopted electric vans, very rarely do we do over 20 miles a day

They had them in the 70/80's, scrapped them in the early 90's. Maybe they'll look at it again now that things have moved on.

[Jaffasoft]

Just posting to say I am considering doing this in Australia and adding solar panels. I am in no hurry and do not need to travel that far, living in a van, in a state that has lots of sun year round so can park up and wait for it get charged and or use charge station from time to time, plus maybe even a generator to get out of trouble maybe.

Thanks for the links etc and will be following this thread. I have heard about an eccentric around these parts that are passionate about EV conversions and has looked into conversions before at about 10k. I aim to get over to see this person to "flesh out" a plan sometime soon.

After I'm looking at 3-5k to fix my motors fuel pump and timing chain my thinking is that if it's happened once it'll happen again, I'd rather enjoy an EV even if it's a little more money to spend. Would just love to have one.



All the best with it and great to see.

[bambi mk 1]

Looks like the op has lost his mojo yet again 6 months since he has posted ,maybe he finally got to tour the states in his mk 6 viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5270&p=38799#p38799 viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7625

[Jaffasoft]

Looks like the op has lost his mojo yet again 6 months since he has posted ,maybe he finally got to tour the states in his mk 6 viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5270&p=38799#p38799 viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7625

Oh I didn't notice dates... looks like I might be on my own then!