We have finally made some progress on the 2009 Mini Cooper Clubman drive train. I had nearly given up all hope. My history is of course in electronics and software. Mechanical issues usually result in the use of a hammer at some point from frustration. This one almost brought out the big sledge. We originally […]
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The concept of a weekly show requires us to actually do some work each week. We had a very good week this past, the last week in October. It rained every day, so no goofing around in the electric Speedster. We had done a video on the EVision installation. What we didn’t show was all
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Haven’t posted for a couple of weeks. We’ve been busy. We’re STILL working on the battery boxes. We have the toughest one pretty much done. This is essentially a battery “module” that sits on rails where the rear passenger seat was. It slides fore and aft about 18 inches to reveal two 12 cell
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We finally did install the main battery box in the Mini Cooper project. This box was quite a wrestling match but we have completed fabrication of the box and installed it in the vehicle. Brian’s “sliding drawer” concept to allow us to move the top box to gain access to the gas tank battery boxes
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The juggling of electric car conversion issues, video shooting, and video editing has been a bit of an adventure. Long time friend and business partner Phil Becker used to say: 1. I know how to parachute. 2. I even know how to make parachutes. 3. I have all the necessary components of a parachute. So
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The passenger seat battery box is quickly growing into a “battery module”. The more we chew on this one, the more work this one becomes. We received the Blue Sky 100 Ah batteries from EVcomponents last week. A lot of good news and some not so good. The specs for the cells are all off
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We currently have an Intro video showing the features of the car and why we selected it for conversion. We also have our first conversion video which covers the wheels, brakes and suspension. This will give you a sample of the level of detail we intend, and just how boring these videos promise to be.
