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Old 04-13-2011, 12:37 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Michael's Electric Beetle - '71 Volkswagen Superbeetle 500000
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It's only around $12,000 in batteries (99 lithium 100amp*hr thunderskys). You could go really ultra cheap on the rest of the stuff (brushed DC motor and controller for example) with that body and still get a similar ballpark figure for the range I think. over 200 miles range with such a relatively small total energy in the batteries is really impressive!
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