[Bratitude]

Hello all,

Been working for the past few months on converting this Honda Acty kei van. A few months ago I bought a Netgain Warp 9 (before I received the van) planning on using the Warp 9. I've since received the van and torn it apart. After getting it all torn apart I'm confronting a concern that I've had since I bought the Warp 9, which is that this thing is not only physically too big, but may also be overkill for the stock drivetrain.

The van is 4WD rear/mid-engined.

So, I've been exploring the idea of using a smaller AC motor, most likely the AC-35 at 96V.

Now I'm wondering if that'll be underpowered for what I'm looking to do with the van, hauling surfboards, some mild offroading and zipping around town. Sometimes going on the freeway.

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I would take a look at the mitishibish outlander hybrid, it has 3 motors (one in the rear, two in the front(one is used as a generator))
One of them would be perfect for this build, potentially one of the front motors.
Can control over the inverters and the onboard charger has been figured out too. SimpBMS also supports the batteries from it as well

Mitsubishi Outlander Front Transaxle - openinverter.org wiki

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Mitsubishi Outlander Rear Drive Unit - openinverter.org wiki

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