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If you want a cheapy throttle, Oatley electronics in Australia sell two types. Priced at about $9 and $14 dollars.
http://secure.oatleyelectronics.com//in ... 23c56f816d

I got lost at the "High performance & chopper" bit?

Oh God, please let the first part of the conversion be a paint job.

Or integrate cells into the body panels, ie: make the bonnet and roof out of fibreglass and embed solar cells.

I said engineering not Arts!

If only I had an engineering degree.

Do you actually have a source for the 100V panel? Because reaching 100V's means something near 166 cells in a panel!!!!!

Has this sold?
With the use of the gearbox do you have any electronic means of assisting gear change or do you still have a clutch?

Faz, you seem to be missing several points. Firstly, you seem to think arguing the matter with me will achieve something. I see your tendency to jump to conclusion extends beyond predicting accident statistics to Psychology as well. By all means keep writing your rather pointless "arguments" in thi...

20km/h = motorcycle? I think its time to get yours serviced! By your argument most motorcycles should be banned. If a motorcycle is not driven to top speed there ceases to be a reason for it. All motorcycles greater than 110cc should be banned because they can't be ridden legally on the freeway at t...

If the 500 watt machine is not ridden at top speed then there ceases to be any valid use for it. Bullsh*t, ascending hills would be one very valid use for it. You seem to be pushing this connection of fast ebike = motorcycle. Fair bit of difference between a 500W ebike (which has less performance f...

Like comparing apples to oranges.

I can't see electric motorcycles taking any customers from the ebike market.

Richo wrote: What are you talking about carbon is like only $50 per tonne

Hmmm business idea!

Step 1. Buy Carbon at $50/tonne
Step 2. Knit it into cloth
Step 3. Profit!!!!!!!!!

Adverse Effects wrote: it fell off the back of a truck so it was free?

Still wouldn't help. Taken from the ev challenge rules;
4. Materials and services that are donated or obtained second hand (or stolen) must have their full , fair value included in the final cost.

Vaporware doesn't need roll bars.

I've always seen the problem of constructing a car for the ev challenge in the rule that the costs must not exceed $1200. Even if I were to fibreglass my own shell (taking into account producing the mould) the cost of the chassis would be about half (or more) of the allowable limit. Which then doesn...

Cool.
Have you got an idea of motor and battery specs yet?

What material are you planning to construct it from?

Are you planning on making this a licensed vehicle or is it a toy/go-kart?

How long can you do an unpowered 40kph for Faz? How far then? 20km? Contador's average speed of 2009 tour de france was 40.32 kph. Should we all be like this? What is wrong with us mortals? My $600 1100W bike fulfils my constraints - and I will wager many more other people would sign up if they cou...

I don't see why you need to repeat yourself. You said this in your first post. One thing I didn't mention in posting about climbing my local hill is that I weigh 96 kg on my own and my trike is about 30 kg, so being able to ascend that hill at about 12 km/h would indicated that 200/400 watts is not...

Why are you doing them in the oven? I would have thought it would take about the same time to hand solder them.

It looks pretty cool with the black paint.

Can you post a photo of the tank in place?

You need to buy some foam and start shaping the tail piece now.

Cells with 5 times the energy density of LiFePO4 have been made already and they expect 8-9 times LiFePO4 energy densities after R&D!
I'm suspicious. Seems far too good to be true.

Pity the industrial motors weigh as much as the ICE they are replacing.