A little history to start it off:
VW with body removed
Restored frame ready for body
We are building a kit car AND an electric car at the same time. Some of our guys are thrashing on the car doing brake lines, chassis wiring, door hinges, etc., while others are working on the electric car systems.
A shot of the rear of the car with the first motor plate bolted up to the VW. The plate looks huge but scroll down and you will see that the plate was filled up pretty quick.
This is the bare front motor plate mounted to the VW transaxle. The lower motor drives directly to the trans and the upper motor will belt drive to the lower motor using a Gates carbon fiber cog belt. I have designed in a limp home mode if the belt breaks. Only lower motor is powered. (If the belt fails, the upper motor will over rev and be toast anyway but I still need to limp home on the unhurt lower motor). Hey, with 9 contactors I can close any combination I want, some of which will do bad things. Hence the EV200's with aux contacts to prevent any bad contact combination.
The complete adapter assembly all made up with contactors mounted on the plate. Motors and controller doing final 2/0 wiring. (I initially wired the whole think up with 18 ga wire and tried my contactor logic with a 12 volt charger to prove it out before cutting up the 2/0 cable). I'm using marine battery cable that is tinned. It is VERY flexible. This compact design took hours of thought but I ended up with a tight package and only 10 feet of 2/0 for all of the connections.
The CALB batteries came in this week!

VW with body removed

Restored frame ready for body

We are building a kit car AND an electric car at the same time. Some of our guys are thrashing on the car doing brake lines, chassis wiring, door hinges, etc., while others are working on the electric car systems.

A shot of the rear of the car with the first motor plate bolted up to the VW. The plate looks huge but scroll down and you will see that the plate was filled up pretty quick.

This is the bare front motor plate mounted to the VW transaxle. The lower motor drives directly to the trans and the upper motor will belt drive to the lower motor using a Gates carbon fiber cog belt. I have designed in a limp home mode if the belt breaks. Only lower motor is powered. (If the belt fails, the upper motor will over rev and be toast anyway but I still need to limp home on the unhurt lower motor). Hey, with 9 contactors I can close any combination I want, some of which will do bad things. Hence the EV200's with aux contacts to prevent any bad contact combination.

The complete adapter assembly all made up with contactors mounted on the plate. Motors and controller doing final 2/0 wiring. (I initially wired the whole think up with 18 ga wire and tried my contactor logic with a 12 volt charger to prove it out before cutting up the 2/0 cable). I'm using marine battery cable that is tinned. It is VERY flexible. This compact design took hours of thought but I ended up with a tight package and only 10 feet of 2/0 for all of the connections.

The CALB batteries came in this week!