Electric Talon

[babyviper]

Hey, Guys I found a video of a Electric talon its a 1g . This would be cool to see if it could be push to run some numbers . YouTube - Home Made Electric Car

 

[ramsack]

Pretty cool, but yikes, $70 for 300 miles? Wouldn't be worth it to me to spend that much and have a top speed of 55. I hope real electric cars become more viable than that. It probably has a lot to do with coupling it to the original transmission. I don't see why it would need a transmission at all. Electric motors are pretty torquey.

Oops, $7, my bad.

 

[DSM_munky_man]

Hmm, thats very interesting. not a bad idea, but I would never do such a thing, he should think of a regenerative system to charge while he is driving, that way his range is a lil bit more than 20 miles.

P.S. I think I saw another dsm in the last video, maybe he is a member or someone needs to find him and get him to be a member!!

 

[babyviper]

YouTube - Driving my Electric Talon in town.

YouTube - 56 Volts test

 

[Tyeler18]

Hmm, thats very interesting. not a bad idea, but I would never do such a thing, he should think of a regenerative system to charge while he is driving, that way his range is a lil bit more than 20 miles.

P.S. I think I saw another dsm in the last video, maybe he is a member or someone needs to find him and get him to be a member!!

This is what I was thinking, why not try and get a high output alternator rigged up onto there. It won't recharge your batteries like in a gas powered car, but it will at least extend your mileage by keeping some of a charge in the battery.

 

[babyviper]

Well he has just a few batterys but if it had as much as this car YouTube - Electric Drag racing: White Zombie

 

[ramsack]

Alternators take power to spin, too. They are easy to spin by hand because there is no load on them. They also need to be spun at several times the engine's speed, so there's more power loss. Try spinning an alternator at a few thousand RPMs having only a few amps pulled from it. What he needs is regenerative braking and some solar panel action. The lead acid batteries don't help for range either.

 

[Tyeler18]

Alternators take power to spin, too. They are easy to spin by hand because there is no load on them. They also need to be spun at several times the engine's speed, so there's more power loss. Try spinning an alternator at a few thousand RPMs having only a few amps pulled from it. What he needs is regenerative braking and some solar panel action. The lead acid batteries don't help for range either.

Which is why I said the alternator won't fully charge him, just extend his range before needing a recharge, but I agree, some sort of solar panel would be beneficial.

 

[babyviper]

iv put Alternator in a vise and ran it with a inpact gun with a head light and wow its cool . The White Zombie has a lot more time and better stuff . T he talon only has 56 volts . The white zombie electric car 355 volts of Lexan modules packs. Found this ,,, http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/whitezombie.php

 

[Eeeeky]

Now this is cool

Im from the RC helicopter world, where electric power is FAR FAR FAR more powerful than ANY source of internal combustion. And very lightweight as well.

This guy needs to play with lithium batteries, Ideal choice would be some high MAH rated lithium Polymer packs. Give him about 300 volts, ill bet the talon wouldnt weight more than 1800 lbs, and he would probably have over 600WHP with the right motor/ESC setup.

Ive got a go kart, with a large RC airplane brushless motor on it, chain driven, using a 450A ESC, and a 200VDC lithium polymer pack. Id race ANYTHING with it. My brother has a newer ZX12, and i can walk away from it with the kart.

 

[LiquidX]

There are those new struts that produce a charge when bounced. That would be a great addition to any electric vehicle no matter how little it actually would produce. Every little bit counts towards getting more miles.

 

[Absit]

Cool, they made a fast one. Now if only they could make one that would run > 100 miles on a charge.. GM says you don't need it, my 40 mile drive (one way) to work says otherwise.

 

[born2tune]

i would double the batteries, double the motors and keep my AWD FTW!!!

 

[Tanro]

What if you need to drive >100 miles in a given work day? Screwed at the moment.

Also, what draws me to turbo 4s is the whole turbo, the sexy sound it makes spooling, the blow off valve. etc.

What kind of sexyness can you do to an electric car? Upgrade the batteries? whoooo. Boring.

Its kind of like I Want clean and effcient power, but.... I loose all the fun of modding at that point.