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It is our daily commuter to town. Last summer we put over 2500 miles on it just running errands. Then we put it away for the winter. This spring we already have more than 300 miles on it. It is really fun to drive and people are very interested in it. Have not had a single problem with it.

No plans for another EV, but my younger grandson and I have discussed an electric "GoKart".

We have a little more than 700 miles on the conversion. We have had zero trouble. I almost hate to mess with it since it is working so well. We have talked of different batteries. The lead-acid pack weighs 1500 pounds. A similar lithium pack would weigh less than 500 pounds. The reduced...

Hello again, Well, we are done. It has been a long trip but it was worth it and we had fun. Here are the results. Max range 30 miles Max speed on level 55 mph Weight 3800 lbs Here are the pictures Here is a link to a newspaper article. They got it...

Hello again, We ordered the batteries over a month ago. It took a long time to get them because I insisted on them being fresh and all being produced in the same factory run (same date code). In the mean time, we worked on improving the looks of the truck. We re-covered the seat...

Lithium batteries are way out of our buget so they will be lead acid, deep cycle batteries. If the truck performs to expectations, we will re-evaluate the battery situation when the first set are worn out. Perhaps lithium will be cheaper then. Our battery search came down to two...

I went with 6 volt batteries because I wanted to have well over 200 amp hours and that is easy to get with 6 volt batteries.

Here is where we are with the project. We mounted the electronics on the aluminum plate. We installed the electronics assembly into the truck. We started some of the heavy wiring. We received the 144 volt battery charger. It will be mounted in the truck so that we can...

The truck will have a battery charger mounted in it. It will run from a normal 110 vac 20 amp outlet. The range is still in question but our goal is for James to be able to drive to school, drive to work after school and drive home on a single charge. That would be 25-30 miles. As for...

Hello again, Progress has been slow with the holidays and all. Plus, since this is a project with my Grandson, I try not to do too much without him present. He needs to learn all this mechanical/electrical stuff, not just play computer games. This is a picture showing how we are going...

Yes, we machined the adapter plate ourselves. We also machined the flywheel adapter flange ourselves. The truck does not have power steering but we will have to provide vacuum for the power brakes. I am leaving the heater and/or AC for last, after we see how everything turns out. The...

I am going to try to post some pictures of our winter project of converting a 97 Ranger to electric. This is the Ranger as it was before starting to convert to electric. This is removing the gas engine. This is putting the electric motor and transmission back into the Ranger...

We are using a manual transmission. Thanks for the info on posting pictures. I will try tomorrow. Jim

We are using a NetGain WarP9 motor at 144 volts. We have a 650 amp Kelly dual controller setup with regen. We designed and machined our own adapter plate for the motor/transmission and the motor/flywheel adapter flange. We are trying to keep our costs as low as possible. As far as...

My Grandson and I are converting a 97 Ranger to an electric vehicle. It is a standard shift short bed truck. We have all the gas parts out and have the electric motor installed. The challenge now is to get the speedometer/odometer working. Does anyone know how to do this since the gas engine...