[steven4601]

Tomorrow Martijn his DIY converted Volvo 245 Electric will visit the RDW test center for the ECE R100 safety approval & dynamic road and brake performance testing. Hope that everything will pass smoothly when we're there. Ill bring a video camera and try to get it documented as far as they allow.

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by DJBecker

600 Euros sounds like a steep mark-up until you look at the testing cost. They'll have to sell 100 units or somehow enable another part of their business to get a return on that expense and risk.

Precisely. And at the rate they are going they should be cash flow positive on that expense around, oh, 2020. We make a damn fine product if I do say so myself, but it's definitely going to be obsolete before then.

Originally Posted by DJBecker

I don't agree that a plastic end-cap necessarily means that it won't pass testing. Perhaps you mean that the existing motor controllers with plastic end caps won't pass, and that design hints that EM compatibility was not part considered in the design.

No, I really meant that if there are plastic end caps on the enclosure of a motor controller they will allow so much EMI to escape that there is no hope the controller will pass an EMC compliance test. The enclosure is essentially a tube, then, with both "open" ends acting as slot antennas.

[gdirwin]

Does #5 (0.1m movement) apply for a failure of the motor controller? Say an IGBT short?

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by gdirwin

Does #5 (0.1m movement) apply for a failure of the motor controller? Say an IGBT short?

That is primarily what it applies to, is how I understand it.

[Quinny]

Benjamin515: Do you happen to have a link to these regulations in the original Dutch?

[Benjamin515]

Thanks guys for all the answers!! Back to the drawing-board again.

@Steven: Does Martijn have a blog or vlog were he is describing how he converted the Volvo and what parts he used in compliance with the European standards?

@Quinny: Here you go:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/...17:0047:NL:PDF

[Quinny]

Originally Posted by Benjamin515

Thanks guys for all the answers!! Back to the drawing-board again.

@Steven: Does Martijn have a blog or vlog were he is describing how he converted the Volvo and what parts he used in compliance with the European standards?

@Quinny: Here you go:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/...17:0047:NL:PDF

I believe this document is intended for production EV's, not conversions. Take a look at the website of the RDW, they should have regulations specific for EV conversions.