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November 2007
The Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association (LVEVA) will meet on the third Saturday of each month during 2007. Meetings will be held at the Clark County Library on 1401 E. Flamingo Road from 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM. Members will be displaying their own electric cars and answering questions before and after the meeting.
Calendar
November 17 Monthly Meeting
December 01 Boulder City Christmas Parade
December 15 Monthly Meeting
LVEVA Board of Directors:
Richard Furniss, President
Bill Yule, Vice President
Bill Kuehl, Secretary/Treasurer
Al Sawyer, Jan Himber , Al D’Inzillo ,Stan Hanel
Newsletter Editors and Contributors:
Richard Furniss, Bill Kuehl, Al Sawyer, P.E.,
Jan Himber, Adam Howard, Brent Singleton, Kent Singleton, Stan Hanel
WATTS HAPPENING
is published monthly by the
Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association,
a chapter of the Electric Auto Association
Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association web site
http://www.lveva.org
Electric Auto Association web site
http://www.eaaev.org
Electric Auto Association
Membership Renewals
323 Los Altos Drive
Aptos, CA 95003-5248
Current EVents contact:
At http://www.eaaev.org/eaaboard.html
Ron Freund
Chairman, CE Publication
Address Correspondence to:
LVEVA
2816 W. El Campo Grande Avenue
No. Las Vegas, NV 89031
Call for Information:
Richard Furniss (702) 453-6196
Jan Himber for Al Sawyer (702) 642-4000
Bill Kuehl (702) 636-0304
Contents:
-- LVEVA Participates in Boulder City Green Power Expo & Symposium
-- Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Visits Las Vegas for EAA Exhibition
-- Gasoline Prices Top $3 per gallon again. Crude Oil Prices Approach $100 per barrel!
-- DARPA Urban Challenge Results
-- LVEVA to Participate in Boulder City Christmas Parade on December 1, 2007
-- LVEVA Board of Directors Nominations and Elections for Two Positions
-- EV Repairs and Service
-- EVs and EV Parts for Sale
LVEVA Exhibits at Boulder City Power Expo & Symposium October 27, 2007
LVEVA members Richard Furniss, Bill Kuehl, Bill Yule, John Bullis, Jan Himber, Al Sawyer, Ken Carpenter and Dan Trujillo participated in the first inaugural Boulder City Green Power Expo & Symposium event on Saturday, October 27th, from 11 AM until 4 PM.
Bill Yule brought his Electric Hyundai conversion, Dan Trujillo brought his Lectra Centauri (Datsun 200SX conversion), John Bullis brought his GEM NEV, Bill Kuehl and Al Sawyer displayed their Toyota Prius hybrids, and Richard Furniss provided sandwiches to all the volunteer LVEVA members. Ken Carpenter provided organizational support.
The exhibit was located at the city’s Department of Water & Power building at 600 Nevada Highway. Parking spaces were reserved outside the building for Electric Vehicles with an exhibit table. The LVEVA provided brochures as well as EVs to help educate attendees on the benefits of driving electric. Boulder City has been very friendly to the EV community and several LVEVA members are also Boulder City residents, including John Bullis, Dan Trujillo, and Ken Carpenter, who drive their EVs within the city limits every day.
The Expo was recorded by television crews from Boulder City TV (BCTV) and local Channel 3, who interviewed both Bill Kuehl and Bill Yule for the daily news broadcast. The organizers of the event sent a follow-up note expressing their appreciation:
Subject: Green Power Symposium
To all the wonderful people who helped us:
The Green Team is very thankful to everyone who participated in the first Green Expo held in Boulder City.
There are many who were not at the event but nonetheless contributed to the efforts. For those at the event we are very thankful for your presence and energy. I was told there is a full page article in The View. Nicky videotaped the event which will air on BCTV. Channel 3 television recorded the event for their news broadcast.
One special mention: Mary Beth please thank the drummers - they were marvelous!
Second special mention: Vern: it's the first time I have eaten solar baked cookies - they were good. Lynn, thanks for cookie batter.
Third special mention: Ivy, thank the high school students!
We had a good turnout. We haven't counted all the pledges but did receive many, so that is another sign of success. The presentations were educational and interesting.
If anyone has any feedback please send us ideas, comments, or critiques so we can improve as a group and as event planners.
With all the efforts, on many fronts, we are decreasing our carbon footprint, making a difference, and helping the planet.
Thank you!
Blanche La Salle
The New Green Team
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) visits LVEVA in November!
 
 
 
Jerry Asher manages intra-chapter relations for the Electric Auto Association (EAA), of which the Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association (LVEVA) is a supporting member chapter at: http://www.eaaev.org
He organized a tour of the Southwest region of the United States, demonstrating a 2005 Toyota Prius™ that had been converted to a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) during an exhibition at Maker Faire in Austin, Texas on October 20-21, 2007. The exhibition was sponsored by CalCars.org, a California initiative group that hopes to encourage more hybrid car owners to expand their vehicles’ “electric-only” range by adding extra batteries and other PHEV modifications.
The PHEV conversion that Jerry demonstrated consisted of both hardware and software. The hardware was built into a battery box module manufactured by “Plug-In Supply” company of Petaluma, California. The battery module assembly consisted of twenty 12-volt/12 amp-hour Lead Silica AGM batteries wired together with relays, sensor devices and a hydraulic lift apparatus for accessing the spare tire beneath the module. This assembly occupies the space of the original pullout “trunk compartment” that is normally located above the spare “donut” tire well, adding 300 lbs. to the overall weight of the car. This battery module adds about 10 miles of “electric only” range to the existing Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery pack in front of the trunk compartment that drives the traction motor and normally only has a range of 2 to 3 miles in “electric only” mode.
More importantly, the gasoline engine in the hybrid is relieved of much of its recharging duties during operation and is only used for direct drive of the vehicle when on the highway or when accelerating. This new combination of battery-electric and gasoline hybrid can achieve ranges exceeding 100 miles per gallon, substituting cheaper electric power that can be plugged in from a home-based electric socket to recharge the supplemental battery pack.
The complete PbA Battery Box assembly is available from Plug-In Supply as a standalone module with batteries for $5,595. Without batteries, the PbA Battery Box module is available for $3,895. An economy PbA Battery Box Only module with mounting hardware and fans but less electronics is also available for $1,295. Additional installation costs for a battery charger, “Can View” software, and an auxiliary display are estimated at $2,000. Total cost of the PHEV conversion, depending on amount of labor done by the owner, can be $5,000 to $12,000. The Plug-In Supply company is also developing a Lithium-Ion Phosphate Battery Pack conversion kit featuring batteries from Phoenix Silicon International that are expected to provide additional range. For more information, contact Plug-In Supply at: http://www.plug-insupply.com
The software, developed jointly by CalCars.org (www.calcars.org/howtoget.html) and by EAA-PHEV.org (www.eaa-phev.org), consists of an open source control system for the add-on battery pack and electronics, as well as a “CAN-View” instrumentation touch display screen for the Prius™ touch screen panel that augments the original Prius™ touch screen user interface menus.
Jerry called his PHEV public relations campaign “PHEV All Around America”, or PHEV3A as an acronym. His itinerary for the Toyota Prius™ PHEV conversion demonstration was released in mid-October 2007 with planned stops in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tucumcari and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tucson, Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona; then to Las Vegas to meet with LVEVA members on Monday, November 5th before heading north to visit the new Reno, Nevada chapter on Tuesday, November 6th. From there, he proceeded to the San Francisco Bay Area to deliver the finished PHEV to the car’s owner, Darren Overby.
Jerry Asher’s announcement:
Advanced Warning! A PHEV is coming your way! It’s just a matter of time when a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, a Prius conversion, will be showing up in your locale. The Prius-soon-to-be-PHEV of Darren Overby is to be driven and demonstrated across the Southwest from Austin, Texas to Reno, Nevada. By the way, Darren’s from the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This advanced warning is about a pilot program for PHEV All Around America (PHEV3A) -- that is the PHEV3A Southwest with Jerry “EVJerry“ Asher, EAA Chapters Relations East, is down to see the PHEV driven back to Home Sweet San Francisco.
PHEV3A Southwest begins from the MAKER FAIRE in Austin, TX. See www.MakerFaire.com where a CALCars PHEV conversion number will takes place this coming weekend with Darren’s Prius. It's being made possible through the coordinating EVforts of Jim Philippi out of Houston and under the auspices of CALCars.
One can begin to peruse Darren Overby’s website www.diy-mpg.com as well as www.CALCars.org to see pictures of the Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle #76 -- PHEV#76 ... as EVJerr progresses forth on his PHEV All Around America - South Pilot Project venture ... en route to San Francisco.
PHEV3A Southwest launches early on Monday, the 22 October 07 (or possibly even before if all systems are “GO“). Check out the partially pasted & copied website below, but do click on <MakerFaire.com> website for greater surfing pleasure.
Maker Faire
Maker Faire: two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset, including Swap-O-Rama-Rama, the King of Fling Catapult Competition, and Edible Austin's DIY Food
* When: October 20-21, 2007
* Were: at Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas
* Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm
The PHEV3A Southwest Itinerary with projected Timelines
The PHEVenturers, Darren and EVJerr, will go North first and through the Dallas/Ft Worth area on into Oklahoma with a few day stopover in the State. The PHEV3A Southwest should be done in conjunction with distribution of “Plug in Partners” literature / DVDs from Austin Energy as well as materials from the Electric Auto Association.
From Oklahoma City on Wednesday, the plan is for Darren to wing it back San Francisco while EVJerr stays on-board, solo'ing the PHEV across the Southwest. EVJerr’s first stopover West will be at Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari. In Albuquerque, NM, there’s an anticipated “rendez vous” with EAA Members Ed and Victor along with his four sons -- Roman, Nicholas, Andrew, and Paul. Possibly, Greg, a former EVA/DC Member, can come down from Taos. It's also open to others as well.
In addition to New Mexico, PHEV3A Southwest has Arizona with targets of opportunity for PHEV demonstrations. There’s to be possibly a “show & tell” with: Tucson EVA2 members on Saturday morning, 3 November 07; demoting with members of the Sierra Vista Hummingbird Chapter of the Veteran Motor Club of America on Monday evening, 5 Nov 07, and with Phoenix EAA’rs some time on Tuesday, 6 Nov 07 and with Flagstaff EAA’rs on Wedesday evening, 7 Nov 07.
From Arizona, PHEV3A takes sight on Nevada. It’s Las Vegas EVA likewise, and in Reno with the Alternative Transportation Club, an EAA Chapter. Timing for PHEV3A Southwest's arrival, and return back to Darren, is for Saturday, 10 November … still in plenty of time to take in the GREEN FESTIVAL in San Francisco, CA. See also <www.GreenFestivals.com>;
There you have the Southwest pilot program of the PHEV All Around America in the making! This has been your “Advanced Warning” to plan accordingly for a PHEV coming to your locale. NOTE: No hard and fast dates are yet made; the above has been simply projecting a 20-day itinerary as an advanced warning.
Hasta Luego, !Amigos de Mio!
J. “EVJerry” Asher
Chapters Relations East
Electric Auto Association
Post Office Box 651
Bisbee, AZ 85603
Editor’s Note: LVEVA Secretary/Treasurer Bill Kuehl provided accommodations for Jerry Asher and the Toyota Prius PHEV when he arrived in Las Vegas on the evening of November 5th. Bill was joined by LVEVA members Al Sawyer, Jan Himber, Al D’Inzillo, Stan Hanel, Lloyd Reece, Ken Carpenter, Amanda Cabillan and Dan Trujillo to welcome him and to view the CalCars PHEV design. Other LVEVA family and friends attended the EVent, including Russ Lord and Rashid from the Free Energy Store, Jon Hallquist from GrassRoots EV, and Marianne Hanel.
Afterwards, the group convened to the Texas Station Casino at the FEAST buffet for dinner to share Jerry’s experiences driving the PHEV and to talk more about the latest news with other EAA chapters.
Thank you, Jerry, for organizing such an interesting presentation for all of the Southwest chapters!
Gasoline Prices Top $3 per Gallon again. Crude Oil Prices Exceed $90 per Barrel!
On September 12, 2007 the commodity price of light sweet crude oil topped $80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for the first time, a jump in costs that is just now being felt by consumers at the local gas pump stations during early November 2007. Average U.S. gasoline prices are once again exceeding $3 a gallon, jumping 25 cents per gallon during the last three weeks from mid-October to November 5th.
As a foreshadowing of things to come, speculators and traders have continued to bid up the commodity price of a barrel of light, sweet crude oil over the last two months to an all time high of $96 dollars before retreating on Monday, November 5th to $94.58.
The temporary drop in commodity oil price speculation was triggered by a perceived weakness of sustained consumer credit in the U.S. due to the effects of mortgage speculation, that may produce an economic slowdown in the largest oil-consuming country in the world. Oil markets are also anticipating an increase in crude oil supplies over the next few months. Iraq exports increased by nearly 200,000 barrels a day in October to 1.84 million barrels a day, according to PVM Oil Associates in Vienna. Russia also achieved new production outputs, reaching exports of 9.93 million barrels a day. OPEC nations have increased production by 382,000 barrels over the previous month to an output of 31.23 million barrels a day according to a Dow Jones Newswire study.
However, many oil industry observers feel that options traders may still try to bid up the price of oil over the psychological $100 per barrel threshold in the next month. If crude oil costs are sustained at this level into 2008, it could push gasoline pump prices up above $3.50 to $4.00 per gallon by summer 2008.
Price pressures will create hardships for the American consumer at many different levels but may force conservation and continued exploration of alternative energy resources that will hopefully free our country from its “addiction to oil”.
DARPA Urban Challenge Results
http://picasaweb.google.com/TimCraig47/DARPAUrbanChallenge
The federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) issued its third DARPA Grand Challenge to the U.S. automotive design community, offering prizes of $2 million, $1 million and $500,000 dollars to the top three teams that could field self-piloted automotive platforms capable of navigating 60 miles of urban traffic conditions without a human driver.
The obstacle course for the urban environment was staged at the U.S. Army Urban Warfare Training Center in Victorville, California from November 1-5, 2007. The obstacle course consisted of 50 professional drivers in GM Saturn vehicles, each equipped with roll cages to simulate real-time moving traffic conditions that the autonomous vehicles would have to navigate around. The obstacle course also included traditional traffic intersection and merge lane configurations as well as physical and “symbolic” obstacles that human drivers encounter every day while piloting their automobiles in an urban environment.
After preliminary test trials from a pool of 35 entrants, the list of final competitors was trimmed to just 11 vehicles to start the competition. Eliminations were based on technical inspections and safety violations. A more complex emergency stop (E-stop) system had to be integrated into each vehicle to allow for urban conditions. During the first and second DARPA Grand Challenge off-road races, E-stop system integration was pretty simple, just a large external “kill switch” button on the exterior of the vehicle as well as a remote radio-controlled “kill-switch” that could be triggered by a judge from a chase vehicle. Out in the desert, the vehicle could roll to a stop without much danger of running into anything.
However, because of the higher density of the urban obstacle course, the potential for damage to stationary obstacles, other human-powered vehicles that served as moving obstacles, and to unprotected human observers in an urban setting, the E-stop procedure now were required to also include emergency maneuvers that would try to steer the vehicle to a safe position before bringing it to a complete stop.
Each vehicle needed to abide by California DMV driving regulations, having the capability to successfully navigate stop signs, left and right turns, traffic merges, and other daily driving requirements without incident. In addition to chase vehicles that followed each autonomous vehicle platform, a team of 100 judges were also stationed at different points along the route to record any violations in traffic procedures and regulations that might occur during each timed run. Penalty points were given for any infractions that were observed and recorded.
Safety requirements also stated that the autonomous vehicles needed to emit some kind of constant audible noise to let human bystanders know that they were coming. Each team picked its favorite “tones”. CMU chose a police siren while University of Pennsylvania’s Ben Franklin vehicle emitted a familiar “ice cream truck” melody.
To start the race, judges issued a computer “Memory Stick” that included data about the obstacle course GPS waypoint map of the “mission” route to each team at the beginning of their trial run. As with the previous DARPA challenges, the vehicles were released into the obstacle course in staggered starts, with approximate 20 minute intervals between each vehicle leaving the starting gate. The autonomous vehicle would have to self-navigate their waypoint map according to onboard GPS sensors but also employ other types of local sensors to detect obstacles along the route and employ some degree of artificial intelligence to interpret all the data streaming into its computers. These sensors could include onboard cameras, lidar laser scanners, radar and other devices for obstacle detection and avoidance.
During the second DARPA Grand Challenge in Nevada, the Stanford University team developed the fastest processing computer architecture by employing ruggedized Intel blade servers that modeled decision-making with a hierarchy tree that included three abstract levels of “situational awareness” and set priorities as to how to deal with each type of input to make sense of the upcoming desert terrain. Several of this year’s vehicles again employed multiple blade servers but this time many teams used dual-core and quad-core processors in place of single-core processors to gain faster levels of parallel data integration and interpretation.
To their credit, each of the top three winning teams had no safety violations upon completion of the 60-mile course. Their award rankings were narrowed to just how quickly each autonomous vehicle completed its run.
Carnegie-Mellon University’s Tartan team and their “Boss” Chevy Tahoe™ platform successfully navigated the obstacle course with the best time to achieve first place and a $2 million prize. “The third time was the charm” for CMU at the DARPA Urban Challenge.
During the first off-road DARPA Grand Challenge obstacle course in the California-Nevada Mojave desert, the team’s Humvee platform was favored to complete a 120-mile course but only succeeded in completing seven miles of obstacles and terrain before stalling in deep sand and melting the tread off the front tire of its vehicle. During the second off-road DARPA Grand Challenge in Primm-Nevada, CMU fielded two Humvee platforms with a lot of funding and support from companies in the Defense and Automotive Racing industries. However, the two teams were upset by a Stanford University team and its Volkswagen Tuareg™ platform design that was privately funded by Volkswagen, the Red Bull energy drink company, and the Mohr-Davidow venture capital company to win the $2 million Grand Prize. During the off-road race, the lighter and faster Tuareg™ 4-wheel drive SUV passed CMU’s heavier Humvees, leaving them behind to finish in 2nd and 3rd place by just 20 and 30 minutes respectively. Although the CMU designs were built for more rugged terrain, the extra durability was not necessarily an advantage for CMU platforms over a 110-mile course of open desert that mostly consisted of long stretches of existing dirt roads and widely-spaced obstacles.
During this year’s DARPA Urban Challenge, however, CMU’s entry was faster than the Stanford University team and its “Junior” Volkswagen Passat™ platform, reprising another close race where CMU finished just twenty minutes ahead of its Stanford rival. The Stanford University team was awarded second place and $1 million for its efforts. Virginia Tech’s team won the third place $500,000 prize, finishing just 40 minutes behind CMU.
The MIT team and Cornell University team participated in a close race for fourth place. The Cornell vehicle had stalled temporarily at a traffic circle intersection with a chase “safety control vehicle” following it and was “deciding” how to negotiate this obstacle according to its waypoint map. The MIT vehicle came up behind the two and treated both as stationary obstacles. It moved in between the two vehicles and then attempted to pass the Cornell vehicle on the left before making a right turn to go around the circle. Just as it executed the maneuver, the Cornell vehicle decided to move forward, as well and the two vehicles collided. Judges allowed both autonomous vehicles to resume and finish the race but the safety infractions put both vehicles out of the running for prize money. MIT edged out Cornell University with a faster time to capture fourth place. The University of Pennsylvania/Lehigh University team also completed the 60-mile course with its Toyota Prius™ platform but at a slower speed and also with safety infractions. The remaining five entrants did not complete the entire 60-mile obstacle course. Of the five, two vehicles “locked up” and stopped moving during the route while three others were involved in traffic accidents that were serious enough to disqualify them from continuing.
Congratulations to all the participants who put their best AI and robotic design work on wheels to exceed the expectations of the DARPA Urban Challenge!
LVEVA To Participate in Boulder City Christmas “Parade of Lights” on December 1, 2007
Boulder City will be staging its annual Christmas “Parade of Lights” on Saturday evening, December 1st. All LVEVA members are invited to attend. There will be a full spectrum of Electric Vehicles to ride on or ride in the parade from Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters to Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) and full-size electric cars.
For directions to this event, contact LVEVA officers at phone numbers shown on the front page of this newsletter.
LVEVA Board of Director Nominations and Elections for Two Positions
The LVEVA is guided by a 7-member Board of Directors who are elected to 3-year terms. A list of the current Board of Directors members is shown on the front page of this newsletter.
The 3-year terms of both Bill Yule and Bill Kuehl are expiring at the end of this year. Nominations for these two positions for the next 3-year term of 2008 through 2010 will be held during the LVEVA chapter monthly meeting on Saturday, November 17th.
Elections for the nominees by secret ballot will be held during the LVEVA chapter monthly meeting on December 15th, between 10 AM and noon.
Nominations and voting can only be made by current members of the LVEVA who have paid their membership dues through December 2007.
Please come to the next two meetings to help contribute your input for the future direction of the LVEVA.
EV Repairs and Service
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2051 E. Sahara (corner of Eastern Avenue and Sahara)
Las Vegas, NV 89104
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EV Parts and Kits for Sale:
OKA NEV ZEV Parts and Kits for Sale: www.okaauto.com
OKA NEV ZEV KIT cars in stock now for immediate delivery prices start at $5,000 FOB Las Vegas.
We also have 4844 ALLTRAX Controllers(48V 400 A DC for Series motor) in stock (more than we need) $550 list, $375.00 NET.
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For Sale: Chrome "Electric" Emblems for EV's
Mike Chancey - Posted 06/25/00
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Checked: 07/13/03
Chrome "Electric" car emblems, just like the OEM factory lettering. Okay, so you own a beautiful electric vehicle, but does the world know? Show them with these profession quality "ELECTRIC" emblems. Fabricated from weather resistant thermoplastic, these signs feature a bright chrome like finish on the letter faces with a subtle matte black background. They mount easily with the self adhesive HighTack backing. Simply peel off the protective cover, and press the sign into place. Each sign is approximately 1.25" in height and 7" in length. Only $6.00Each or four for $20.00, plus $1.75 shipping and handling per order. Discounts for larger orders available. Send check or money order to:
Mike Chancey, 1700 East 80th Street, Kansas City, MO 64131, or order online.
EVs For Sale:
Electrans 3-wheel Futurista ETV
Range of 55 miles
Top speed of 45 mph.
Department of Transportation (DOT) approval to license this vehicle through the DMV
List price is $13,995
Contact: ElecTrans
Address: 5450 South Cameron #101, Las Vegas, NV 89118
Tel: (702) 889-2146
Web site: www.futurista.biz
For Sale: Electric 1985 Pontiac “Fiero” --Record-Holding Race Car
This 1985 Pontiac “Fiero” Conversion currently holds four National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) Class Records.
1. Class MC/F (Modified Conversion 97-120 volts)
2. Class MC/E (Modified Conversion 121-144 volts)
3. Class MC/D (Modified Conversion 145-168 volts)
4. Class MC/C (Modified Conversion 169-192 volts)
The 1985 Pontiac Fiero has been converted with:
1. A new Netgain Warp-9 Electric DC Motor coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission.
2. A DCP T-REX 1000 Water-cooled Controller with an Input Voltage Range of 96 to 336 Volts
and Motor Current Rating at 1000 Amps.
3. The Battery System is at 192 Volts. The battery pack consists of sixteen 12-volt sealed ODYSSEY
PC-680 batteries with the capability of increasing battery pack capacity and voltages to compete in the NEDRA MC/B Class (Modified Conversion 193-240 volts) or to a maximum capacity of 336-volts to compete in the MC/A Class (Modified Conversion 241 volts and higher).
4. Tires are B.F. Goodrich G-Force T/A Drag Radials P215/60 R14 that connect the Electric Motor torque to the road for “no slip” acceleration.
5. Battery Charger is a 120- to 240-volt Variable Transformer with a heavy-duty full bridge rectifier.
Additional cables and connectors are installed for Dump Charging from a DC battery pack.
Asking Price: $10,000 or Best Offer.
Contact: William Kuehl
Address: 4504 W. Alexander Road, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89032
Telephone: 702-636-0304
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