Hello - I'm new here, just registered today. I have been chasing an interest in electric vehicles for some time, have been "lurking" while reading the various posts on this board, and have decided that now's the time to jump on in.
I have been naturally looking around for some good potential donor vehicles for my first conversion project. As I am not financially prepared to install anything more exotic than good-ole' lead-acid batteries, I suppose I will be building a commuter-range car....so I am looking at the various older Civics / Escorts / Saturns / Corollas / Geo Metro / etc. models in sub-compact or compact cars that will allow me to get the best acceleration/range performance out of a 96-120Vdc (or as much as 144Vdc?) battery pack, probably made up of T-105s (I already use this model battery in my roof-top solar PV system, and like their performance and durability).
I want to trade vehicle curb weights against gross (GVWR) weights. I can usually locate the curb weight of a given vehicle in Internet used-car specs, but not the GVWR information.
Does anyone in the group have a listing or table of GVWRs for various compact and/or subcompact cars, which you could post or send to me?
Thanks,
Steve
I have been naturally looking around for some good potential donor vehicles for my first conversion project. As I am not financially prepared to install anything more exotic than good-ole' lead-acid batteries, I suppose I will be building a commuter-range car....so I am looking at the various older Civics / Escorts / Saturns / Corollas / Geo Metro / etc. models in sub-compact or compact cars that will allow me to get the best acceleration/range performance out of a 96-120Vdc (or as much as 144Vdc?) battery pack, probably made up of T-105s (I already use this model battery in my roof-top solar PV system, and like their performance and durability).
I want to trade vehicle curb weights against gross (GVWR) weights. I can usually locate the curb weight of a given vehicle in Internet used-car specs, but not the GVWR information.
Does anyone in the group have a listing or table of GVWRs for various compact and/or subcompact cars, which you could post or send to me?
Thanks,
Steve