Video A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) 331
Adam Blankespoor: My name is Adam Blankespoor and this is my Honda Civic, a ‘96 Civic that I converted to full electric battery power. Took out the engine and added the motor and a lot of batteries. So, I drive it every day to work and back. My commute to work is 15 miles and it takes about three-and-a-half hours to charge that. If I use the full battery capacity, I could probably go 50 miles, but I rarely do that and rarely have a need to do it, living here in Ann Arbor. If I use that full battery capacity, then it would take 10 hours to charge on a 110 outlet. The charger that I have, it can use 110 or 220, automatically switch between the two. And so that would cut the time in half. I finished it a year ago. It took me two years to convert and I finished it a year ago and have about 2,000 miles on it. And one of the things that amazes me still is that, I haven’t had to do any maintenance really or any kind of tuning. Once I got everything connected, it’s basically been trouble free for the first 2,000 miles. And I think it’s less of a testament of my prowess and more of a testament of the simplicity of this system and the elegance of an electric drive. Interviewer: Could you walk us through the various parts of the system? Adam Blankespoor: Sure. So, everything from the flywheel to the lug nuts is original Honda and I have a WarP 9 motor and it’s a DC series wound motor. It can handle 160-volts nominal and up to 1,000 amps of output. This is a WarP-drive controller. It acts a lot like a dimmer switch. So my accelerator pedal controls this controller and it controls how much power goes to the motor. I have 45 lithium ion battery cells and they are 100-amp-hour capacity at about 150 nominal volts. This controller is liquid cooled and that’s regular engine coolant. And then I have 25 cells in the back along with the charger and a DC-to-DC converter.
An all electric car?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Practical? (Score:5, Funny)
They're you go, bringing facts to the argument again.
e-Fast & Furious? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow, I guess. (Score:4, Funny)
I don't understand why this is a story at all.
Did you already forget what site you're on?
Re:OT: where do I turn in geek badge? (Score:3, Funny)
It's "Slashdot" represented in 7-bit ASCII, LSB on top and MSB on the bottom of each character.
Re:Practical? (Score:3, Funny)
> this will never get off the ground
That's because it's a car.... not an airplane. Jeez... look who's the smarty-pants now