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Hello all. My name is Nathan and I've been in the automotive fabrication industry for over 10 years (inspireautomotive.us). I specialize in different types of CNC machining, one of them is plug machining for the fabrication of composite automotive body panels. Anyhow, Ive been planning an EV micro car build for about a year now and doing some rough designing in CAD (attached are some pictures). The reason why im here is that although know how to make the parts of this vehicle, I dont know enough about DIY electric car building beside the general stuff (motor, motor controller, battery potentiometer, basics of electricity,ect.) , so i was hoping i could start here and learn as much as i could from fellow DIY builders on the best components to use for my drive train. At this point I would like to start buying the motor and planning for the battery so that i can implement it in my CAD design. So my design is a micro car thats likely to weigh around 1400 lbs. I was thinking about using the electric motor from a smartcar fortwo ( bosch electric ev motor | eBay), or if you have any suggestions on a motor that is proportionate terms of power for the weight of my vehicle and a motor controller for it, something between 600-1000 $ used for the motor and 500 for the controller. Thats the only questions i have for now. Looking forward to your input.