[Tatsushige]

Originally Posted by Ziggythewiz

Solar, done right, would just add more awesome to the looks.

They have some classy solar panels now days or I might have something custom made which I think is the path I am more likely to take.

[steve dorries]

looks absolutely fabulous..... having the motor,s on the wheels?? is that more efficient/better for speed... than doing it ithrough a transmission???

steve dorries
stevedorries@iinet.net.au

[Tatsushige]

Originally Posted by steve dorries

looks absolutely fabulous..... having the motor,s on the wheels?? is that more efficient/better for speed... than doing it ithrough a transmission???

steve dorries
stevedorries@iinet.net.au

Because the motor are in the wheels they work more efficiently and you do not need to worry about losing power via a tranny ... Also you have AWD and each wheel has its own footprint so when you go in to a corner you will not lose traction and each motor will work on its own foot print.

You can get a lot of speed out of having the motors in the wheel.

Look up the Japanese made Elica ... top speed was just over 370km/h and a range of 300 kilometers ...




PS ya from WA ... I was born in Cannington ... Moved to Japan in 2003

[steve dorries]

no way!!! i grew up in manning. near south perth/como. those cars look awesome.. if you ever do a veyron version my wife would flip. any way... motors straight on wheels??? just do rear wheel drive!! so !! what ize motors would i need for a VT commodore?? there are heaps of them here and dirt cheap.. plus the aero package from their touring car days is still made... maybe there is a book or a website you can point me at so i dont take up too muchof your time...

cheers

[Tatsushige]

I do not know what parts or motors are in Australia .. so I would need to look in to it ... but depending on what you want ... A lot of guys on here are using WarP motors and the Holden being a heavy car I would say a WarP 11 or 13 .. but I do not know much about the WarP motors, other would have a better idea.


Yes Born at KEMH, lived in Cannington, went to Cannington SHS, Worked as a Sparky in Queens Park for 4 years before joining the ADF and going to the School of cool in Wagga Wagga, then back to Perth, before getting ticked of with the morons in power and heading overseas to work .. and that is about it.

[steve dorries]

Originally Posted by Tatsushige

I do not know what parts or motors are in Australia .. so I would need to look in to it ... but depending on what you want ... A lot of guys on here are using WarP motors and the Holden being a heavy car I would say a WarP 11 or 13 .. but I do not know much about the WarP motors, other would have a better idea.


Yes Born at KEMH, lived in Cannington, went to Cannington SHS, Worked as a Sparky in Queens Park for 4 years before joining the ADF and going to the School of cool in Wagga Wagga, then back to Perth, before getting ticked of with the morons in power and heading overseas to work .. and that is about it.

cool!! warP motor,s.. will google these. not being in a super car style vehicle will not need that high a speed. plus my idea of recharging wont handle that sort of speed either.
was born at kemh as well. spent all child hood in manning.boilermaker/welder by trade. hitchiked around orstraya, married twice,have raced motorbikes,sailed in 2004 sydney to hobart, currently restoring a HQ sedan and will make it look like a SS version.and really want to try ou my idea for making a ev taht can get to margret river and back without having to stop

[steve dorries]

hey Tatsushige!! just googled those WarP motors.. OMG.. nice looking bits of kit. instead of having two seperate motors driving the rear wheels?? would it be poosible to have one big warp driving bothwheels?? this would save me a bit of money and then i can put it towards batteries

[steve dorries]

hello again..sorry to be a pain...just had a gander at the WarP 9 motor,s two of these might work and are reasonably priced as well. here,s a thought.. can you think of a car with a better drag resistance than the comode??? will consider any and all ideas.. two door would be nice but as you would remember, 4 door cars are much cheaper downunder these days

[Tatsushige]

OK you can have direct drive in to the diff(Needs to be geared right) and then will not need a transmission or you can go via a manual transmission, 1st gears is useless and most do not use it .. some people do not even use 2nd. now this is the fun part, if you have the time and money you can make the car AWD. You have 1 motor running the rear wheels and 1 running the front wheels ...

If not the Holden ... I would try a Mazda MX5 as they have a pretty low drag rate or even Fords Lemon the Capri ...

MX 5


Lemon



IMHO I would go the Mazda, it is Japanese Made and you know it will last and have no problems .. Fords just suck and the Capri was a real Lemon in Australia.



You can pick up MX5 MK1 in Japan for about $AU100 now days .... I do not know what the price would be in Australia as I left the place 10 years ago and have not been back.




Me ... Married Twice, only just divorce the 2nd wife last year after 8 years of marriage ... After leaving the ADF in 1992, became a bodyguard in Taiwan then South Africa, Australia, then Chad and the Ivory Coast as a Merc, back to Aust, bodyguard in Malaysia, Indonesia, back to Aust then Japan as a bodyguard back to Australia, then crap work for the WA Government in the Police Force on the Multi-Novas for about a year before telling them to shove it because the pay was crap, Security Manager for a few clubs in NB and plain clothes armed cash escorts for a company in Thornlie .. once again ticked off and decided enough was enough and moved to Japan. Did 6 months in the pit(Iraq) as a PMC and decided the money was not equal to the BS and the threat of being blown to bits with a IED by some paedophile worshipping twat, so back to Japan, Security Manager and bodyguard for 2 Gentlemen's Clubs until I retired from the protection game in 2007. Open a Aussie Pie shop until 2011 when the wife and I divorced, she held all the licenses, so that was finished ... Now have a new company as I hold my license to produce cars .. at the moment only 3 employees ... but like Tesla give it time and we will get bigger ...



As for a EV from Perth to MR ... I would be trying to get ya hands on Toshiba SCiB Batteries .. these suckers are in the Mitsubishi i-ev and the Nissan LEAF and what I will be using .. SIM-DRIVE in Japan used them both in the Elica and their current vehicle with a range of over 330ks

[steve dorries]

hello again!! kind of liking the idea of the motors directly on the rear wheel,s.although if i put the biggest warp onto a diff that would be interesting??!! rear suspension doesnt have to be reinvented,just need to modify rear floor to fit motor.. any chance of a veyron shaped car in the future?? thank you for the info on the batteries... can you point me toward somewhere/someone about recharging time for batteries???
my idea will need to have batteries handling discharge/recharge every half hour to 45 mins