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The factory ones are probably either rhino or Rola racks with a Hyundai sticker. Try to find out which and you might get them a smidgen cheaper elsewhere. Not that they are slightly different profile so accessories might not be switch between brands. I don’t have experience with EV and roof racks, b...

An e-bike battery is probably the easiest option. Already packaged up, charger available, plenty of options assuming your current battery box would fit the battery.

Work places with solar are still unlikely to cover their energy needs - even if the carpark was added. So having free solar for customers/employees at the employers expense is unlikely to happen. If it concerns you then get as much solar as you can on your house and store the surplus - preferably 1...

A little outside the box thinking, would it be possible to just buy some smaller lead batteries? You mention you don’t need the range. surely two half capacity batteries would be a lot lighter.

I do get the idea of upgrading though!

$600? Lucky my garage isn’t really tall enough for a hoist. Kinda defeats the purpose when you can’t get the vehicle much higher than a jack stand.

Particularly for those who have some experience, how does the braking effect of regenerative braking compare to traditional disc/drum brakes? Especially with reference to RWD vehicles. My understanding is that the front brakes do most of the work in an ICE vehicle and many of us have experience of y...

Nice work. I can guess at all the comments about (lack of) range though!

If you mainly drive on the flat, but love to drive flat-out, then you want regen... Efficiency is not everyone's goal though of course! I guess id fall into the ‘enthusiastic’ driver category, especially if the EV torque is as addictive as everyone says. I’d also be mostly driving in suburban traff...

I had the "high performance" 1500 SS model of this vintage as one of my first cars. Couldn't keep clutches in it if I drove it hard, the gearbox was never a problem though. You could get away with a brass button or ceramic clutch to handle the torque of the electric motor, but the original driving ...

I’m wondering about motors and range etc, but haven’t done any calcs yet. http://www.evmotors.com.au/products/appguide.html https://www.evworks.com.au/netgain-impulse-9-series-dc-motor-suitable-for-veh https://www.evworks.com.au/zeva-mc600sp-mc600sp-motor-controller Pack size ~190Wh/km (including 8...

Thanks. I’d like it to be a low(ish) budget conversion, but don’t want it to be cheap and nasty. The pic isn’t mine, just on off the net. It is in pretty good condition, but the wiring loom is shot, melted wires around the ignition switch and I suspect brittle insulation elsewhere. Otherwise it is i...

A few months ago I purchased a 1969 Mazda 1500. Fairly rare car, but I like the look of it. My plan is to get it registered on its current petrol engine to ensure it is running to a suitable level and then begin the (expected to be) long process to convert to electric. I’m wondering about motors and...

Is it true that lithium batteries are able to be recycled well? I thought I’d heard that, but others have said lithium batteries are going to be a big problem when we start getting lots of old electric cars.

I see Vic have $100 discount and ACT have 20% so hopefully NSW have similar sorts of discount.

I'm all for EV's but just noting that our 6 year old Elantra manual goes down to somewhere like 5.4 l/100 at highway speeds (not sure about A/C use after all this time and up to high 9's around town. That's the exact opposite of my experience - at 50kph my Ranger (and previous Hilux, wife's Prado e...

At this point in time I’d imagine electric cars are really a ‘city’ thing. Short drives, plenty of charging infrastructure etc. the more battery vehicles out there the more infrastructure will get built. The big energy companies know thugs are changing and will work towards supplying what the market...

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Mon, 01 Apr 2019, 18:16

So the good part is that it almost rules out dodgy backyard repairers.

But still allows you to spend your own time and money repairing a classic or modified vehicle you’ve put blood sweat and tears into.

For future reference (or for handy trivia) NSW no longer recognises any cars as repairable writeoffs. All writeoffs are statutory there. As far as I know there is an exception to this rule if you have owned the car for more than 90 days and it would otherwise be considered ‘repairable’. This would ...

I’m in Lake Macquarie. Would appreciate any recommendations on who to talk to in the early phases.

Vehicle procured. I found a Mazda 1500 locally for what I think was a good price. Short(ish) term now is to get it running on ICE and registered. Longer term aim is for it to be running on sparks for my eldest, now 13yo, to be able to learn to drive in it.

As it is measuring the power at the wheels I can’t see there would be any handicap for a different source. There may be some rules developed about how long the vehicle should run for. I can’t imagine an EV full of super caps that runs at well over the 2400hp of the V8, but can only accelerate for 10...

Any chance of posting the links @HuffnPuff? My wife came across a couple of mentions of 400mm in discussions in other forums, but I was driving at the time and wasn't able to confirm if they were authoritative or speculative comments. FWIW, a work colleague who has a Volvo SUV (non-electric of cour...

I had a quick look and found. Couple of links indicating the outlander phew has a wading depth of 400mm.

Is it registered as a two seater? $1500 sounds like a great deal.

I love that they’ve made a drop in module that will work with ‘any’ vehicle with the same engine transmission combo. The future is looking good for old cars!