"The Kid", my 25 year old, seen a video of a snowmobile with electric power. he'd like to do the same thing to a four wheeler.
Anyone have suggestions on where to go for design advice and part sourcing?
I suggested parting out an old electric golf cart. He's thinking there is new technology that will make for a far snappier machine.
Karl
You can buy it new for $1K. Delivery is ~$620 more.
--Winston
Thanks Tom. That National Electric drag race association site will really hook him.
I foresee many a winter day building a small racer.
Karl
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:10:52 -0500, the infamous "Karl Townsend" scrolled the following:
ATV or 4WD full-size truck?
I doubt that he could find a Prius at a junkyard, but it's new and high-tech.
Where will he plug in to recharge, at the forestry lookout station's solar cell array? Through solar cells on a modified lumber rack?
I guess he could always just swing a line over the nearest power transmission tower, eh? ;)
I'd have bought a hybrid (2WD) truck last year if it had been available.
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Depends on how much power and weight you need can live with. Batteries are the killer for most electric vehicles. Briggs & Stratton has a DC electric that develops the equivalent around 12 HP. There are some guys who have put them on top of small outboards in place of a gas power head. I'm sure there are plenty of golf cart motors that could be used. When I was a kid I knew a kid down the street that powered a flat track go-cart with a starter motor off a car. He burned them up fairly often, but he could buy 50 of them for the price of a good gas motor. I think he was actually getting them from a wrecking yard for next to nothing.
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ATV
My place, of course. The juice is free here.
I don't know what Larry meant, but when I read his post imagined that he thought the electric ATV would be used in areas where gas-powered ones aren't welcome.
Although not relevant to Minnesota, current rulings for Yellowstone Park have disallowed snowmobiles and snowcoaches for the 2008-09 winter. See eg
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:35:18 -0500, the infamous "Karl Townsend" scrolled the following:
Oh, I thought you might want to take it somewhere, y'know, like the BOONDOCKS, WHERE YOU CAN GO 4WDing.
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