Battery Vehicle Society

Hi Guys,

We have got the engine out. Its a nice engine despite 100K and we have got the exhaust out in one piece as well.

Who ever needs it, please let me know. What would be the best place to advertise it? We are giving it away for free.

Thank you Peter, Night Train and Greg. We got more information than we were expecting. I guess we will have to digest all these pearls before we get back to you. Greg thank you for offering the batteries. I think we will get back to you in due course as many people including ones on this forum have ...

Thanks for all the links Night train. We will be getting back in touch regarding manual.

Thank Dux for letting us know about the extra mileage. Chris, cheers for pointing out that the trip has been done. Welldone Terry. A bundle of thanks for Night Train. I guess we will be needing your expertise in the near future. Thanks for all the useful information you put forward. There is a lot o...

Thanks Jon for the links. We are hunting our scrapyards to see if we get lucky (low voltage AC motor). If not, there is also consideration for 240V AC with a batterypack of 300 Volts. Does any one know how high power DC motor will perform on a hilly terrain??? If they are reasonable, we might go for...

Cheers Tim, We have a budget of £8000 out of which £550 is gone for the purchase of the car. We have got a MR2 1991. Its a nice slick car. As for the drive, we are still undecided. Half of us are split in going for an AC drive. The other half want DC. We are scanning our local scrap yards for motors...

Hi Guys, Firstly thank you for creating this forum. I found loads of useful information here. We students at Adam Smith College, Fife are in the process of converting MR2. We have purchased the donor car and are in the process of buying the motor and batteries. For the motor we plan to get and AC mo...