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Old 02-05-2013, 11:07 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MTXA View Post
A car that would be interesting to electrify is the Nash Metropolitan. They weighed 1750lbs, front wheels partially enclosed, kind of aero, and can be found fairly cheap.
That might be a good choice if you wanted to spend the money on Lithium batteries, but filling a little light car like that with lead acid batteries would be pointless and not many people want to do a budget build then put lithium batteries, unless of course they do the math and see that in the long term lithium is cheaper then buying a new set of lead acid batteries every 3-5 years.
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