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Cool! Another EV build thread. I'm going to enjoy this immensely!
Since you're limited to a smallish car by the motor size, and you only need two seats, my first choice in superlight cars would be a CRX or Metro convertible. In normal light cars, a Toyota MR2 would be fun, or maybe a Miata. For cool, old & still relatively light: how about a Karmann Ghia or old Bug. Rabbit convertible?
I enviously eyed a dead Miata in a local junkyard shortly after we started working on the Metro...
However since you're operating on a strict budget, you may have to just choose
whatever comes up. But - get a car with a manual transmission (or one that you can replace with a manual from a junk yard).
I stopped over @ diyelectric car and read the good advice that Jim Husted provided. Man, that guy deserves a medal for all the help he gives people like us!
On the question of the charger, being an industrial machine, do you know if it needs a 120v or 240v hookup?
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