[TRYing2survive]

Wife always wanted a beetle, so I bought one. Manual trans and in great shape. Just started and plan on doing most of the work myself. I know a lot about 18650's and have made numerous packs. I plan on making the battery from new 3000mA 18650's. I have over 5000 of them.
Live in Las Vegas and am ready to continue working on this project.

Looking at different motors and setups. Not sure what would be best.

Thanks,
Try

 

[bigpie]

I'm part way through a 2003 beetle budget conversion using salvage parts.

EV Beetle Conversion Project

My blog covering a budget conversion of a VW Beetle to electric power, using parts from salvage.

highvoltagebeetle.blogspot.com

I wouldn't self assemble a load of 18650s but if I already had them or could get them for free I might have been tempted.

 

[brian_]

The New Beetle is a pretty typical front wheel drive car with transverse engine, so the same solutions for motor and transmission used for other similar cars (just about any compact front wheel drive car since 1980) are workable.

 

[TRYing2survive]

I'm part way through a 2003 beetle budget conversion using salvage parts.

EV Beetle Conversion Project

My blog covering a budget conversion of a VW Beetle to electric power, using parts from salvage.

highvoltagebeetle.blogspot.com

I wouldn't self assemble a load of 18650s but if I already had them or could get them for free I might have been tempted.

I like the idea of a blog. Somewhere to put pictures and explain some of the process. Thanks.
Interesting.

 

[rod19033]

Working on a 08 beetle electric conversion with a hyper9
Power train is ready to go back in. I converted the automatic to a direct drive

Using chev volt modified battery pack (3x 114v packs in parallel)

Will have a few videos to post on the process!

 

[DIGGER11]

Working on a 08 beetle electric conversion with a hyper9
Power train is ready to go back in. I converted the automatic to a direct drive

Using chev volt modified battery pack (3x 114v packs in parallel)

Will have a few videos to post on the process!

Fantastic, I am just starting with a Leaf conversion into a 2000 Beetle. Are you having any canbus issues ???
cheers Digger

 

[bigpie]

Once the engine ECU is removed, you'll get some errors, Touran Conversion - openinverter.org wiki documents the can bus messages required to be faked to keep the ABS etc happy.

 

[rod19033]

Fantastic, I am just starting with a Leaf conversion into a 2000 Beetle. Are you having any canbus issues ???
cheers Digger

That will be a interesting one!
No can issues .. yet I don't forsee any huge ones.. may need to fake a few sensor readings back to the ecm. We'll see!