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Old 02-05-2011, 12:32 AM   #23 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by some_other_dave View Post
It would be a whole lot of work. Doable, certainly, but you'd have to really like fabrication and have some pretty good equipment to use.
Interesting. How many batteries can you fit just behind the driver with the motor/transaxle back there?

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It would be much simpler to start with a Fiero. Possibly an MR-2 (the later ones may have more of the look you want; the early ones are very small indeed). You could also use a Porsche 914; there are a number of electric conversions of that car around. Google can show them to you. It has a lot of room for batteries...
Again, how many batteries can fit behind the driver? The flaw in his plan is that he wants everything at the back: engine, transmission and batteries.
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