Electric car?

[BassMunky]

I was wondering if someone has done a full electric or half electric car with sounds? Either with a bigger alt or not? I was thinking of doing that that why.

[Zapanater]

Hmmm..... Could you just tap the bigass battery you're sitting on? Or do they run at a different voltage? This would be damn interesting.

[Riley Evan Houser]

That's really opens up the question when someone asks.. "how's your electrical"

[bassface]

Quick youtube search

[n1ghtsn1p3r]

Hmmm..... Could you just tap the bigass battery you're sitting on? Or do they run at a different voltage? This would be damn interesting.

I may not be 100% correct, but this how I understand it based on what I can find (at least relating to a Prius)

You don't hook up to the main HV battery bank. Instead you tap into the auxiliary 12v battery hidden somewhere in the trunk (exact location depends on the year). Since there is no alternator, the gas motor charges (or regenerative braking) the HV bank, which the 12v battery then leeches off of.

Sources:

http://crutchfield.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8270

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080627192946AA3tUyB (last answer)

[HHR Ed]

Ive done Hybrids, they have a standard 12v starting batt as stated above.

But a full electric is different.

The main batt is high voltage and you do not want to tap into it.

They do have a 12v feed for standard car electronics and accessories and you can use this for low power items.

I wanted to use a Chevy Volt as a demo car and be the first to do 150+ in an electric car, but I cannot afford one.

But I will tell you that it can be done, and how I was going to to it was to put in a 2nd battery bank of XS Power batteries and just charge em up as often as I got the chance.

If there was some rotational mechanism in the car like an AC that I could attach to, Id do an alternator, but Ive never seen inside one.

[b-dubs89]

the all electric car is a nice dream but the range of it is a deal breaker for me as well as wanting audio gear . i would like to build a car or suv that runs a healthy sized generator off a small diesel engine to produce the current to power electric motor(s) to propel the vehicle . i think this would be efficient . the railroad industry has been using diesel over electric for many years on a massive scale , i think scaled down this could be the ticket for economical transportation .

i don't believe the auto industry is going to produce anything too fuel efficient any time soon , i think the oil industry may have something to do with it

[CortezDTV]

We have an electric car with stereo sitting in my garage right now

Their running voltage is tipically 120v to 150v

then running a huge stepdown module, that charges once the motor is turned on, so it still has a small 12v batt, but only for the basics, and really only to turn the selector switch on and "prime" the motor

Its a giant breaker that sucks a metal bar in connecting the motor to its 120v, so quite dangerous lol

[BassMunky]

i guess no one yet wirh a full electric than with a big system. between 3-5k I was looking at.

[b-dubs89]

i guess no one yet wirh a full electric than with a big system. between 3-5k I was looking at.

i think for full electric with a system that big , you need more batteries than you can fit in the average vehicle , so you would need to produce a charge somehow , could go hydrogen fuel cell IF you had the money and could find one to buy .