Where are you located. I am in Victoria and would be happy to show you through my build.I'm a retired vintage car restorer and have one last car I want to convert to electric. A 1949 Riley Roadster.
I'm looking to give it nice power with at least a 250 Km range. Any help, thoughts or prayers would be welcomed.
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I'm just outside of Ottawa little village called Fitzroy HarbourWhere are you located. I am in Victoria and would be happy to show you through my build.
I am expecting that kind of range in my CRX build
I vaguely know where that is. I lived in Kingston for 4 years. Sadly a little far, 3000km, for a day trip.I'm just outside of Ottawa little village called Fitzroy Harbour
I am using the LG Chem 2.6kwh "Pacifica" modules. I bought them through thunderstruck EV as they did a bulk discount and were the best price I found after talking to several places. To my knowledge nobody is selling these right now. My understanding is LG placed a cease and desist, as I don't believe they were coming from pacifica's but were actually some form of offsale.what did you use for batteries and where did you get them?
Zero EV lists the same cooling plates for both their LG Chem and their CALB modules of the same format. This appears to be an industry standard (VDA 355), so there are production EV modules (likely the Jaguar i-Pace and possibly the Samsung SDI modules in a VW e-Golf) and the OX-Drive Energy modules from ElectricGT which would also likely fit. Of course the i-Pace is new and the e-Golf is not common...If I were personally buying batteries right now I would probably wind up going with one of ZeroEV's Calb modules, largely because they have a cooling plate solution already worked out. Battery Modules - Zero EV
I talked a bunch with zero ev at one point about their cooling plates as my build is going to have some. Sadly the pacifica modules are a different form factor. It is pretty neat how things have come forward even just in the year since my build beganZero EV lists the same cooling plates for both their LG Chem and their CALB modules of the same format. This appears to be an industry standard (VDA 355), so there are production EV modules (likely the Jaguar i-Pace and possibly the Samsung SDI modules in a VW e-Golf) and the OX-Drive Energy modules from ElectricGT which would also likely fit. Of course the i-Pace is new and the e-Golf is not common...
True - the "Pacifica" modules use a different size of cell than the modules that I listed: it is longer in both dimensions, so the two dimensions of the modules are larger (the longest module dimension is determined by how many cells are stacked). An option for the "Pacifica" modules is to salvage the chill plate from an actual Pacifica PHEV, if you can find one and if the format fits... it holds the modules in two rows, each of three modules directly against each other (so each row is 362x609 mm). Snowdog had custom chill plates built for the "Pacifica" modules in his EV build of a K1-Attack kit.I talked a bunch with zero ev at one point about their cooling plates as my build is going to have some. Sadly the pacifica modules are a different form factor. It is pretty neat how things have come forward even just in the year since my build began
I have gone the custom route. Not too dissimilar from snowdog's.True - the "Pacifica" modules use a different size of cell than the modules that I listed: it is longer in both dimensions, so the two dimensions of the modules are larger (the longest module dimension is determined by how many cells are stacked). An option for the "Pacifica" modules is to salvage the chill plate from an actual Pacifica PHEV, if you can find one and if the format fits... it holds the modules in two rows, each of three modules directly against each other (so each row is 362x609 mm). Snowdog had custom chill plates built for the "Pacifica" modules in his EV build of a K1-Attack kit.
I lived in victoria for 12 years just posted to ottawa for a bit but will be back next year maybe. Would love if possible to take a look at what you have done for a conversion. I'm seriously thinking of converting my rat truck to electric.Where are you located. I am in Victoria and would be happy to show you through my build.
I am expecting that kind of range in my CRX build
Be happy to show you. I am ex Navy myself. By that time it should be running too!I lived in victoria for 12 years just posted to ottawa for a bit but will be back next year maybe. Would love if possible to take a look at what you have done for a conversion. I'm seriously thinking of converting my rat truck to electric.