Hey everyone!
 

New here!
Hope everyone is doing okay!
I'm converting my VW Passat B4 to electric power. Hope to find some advice here and share my progress. Besides that, I love to make creative and useful household things from various parts available at hand.

My current battery pack design lets me get 240 km on a single charge from this beauty, but my goal is 300, so there's a lot of efficiency optimization work ahead.

What do you use for a drivetrain?

I've got a B2 and this setting on a bench but I haven't though about putting them together, seriously anyway.

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It's single-speed, 98lb, 68hp. It would replace the engine and transmission, but it wants Toyota CV joints.

Wasn't the B2 named Quantum in the American market? AFAIK the Dasher is still a B1.

Let's not argue in front of the new folk. Typ 32, the one styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro,

I'm using a proprietary manual gearbox and a motor with a copper rotor in my build. I have a video where I show how everything looks under the hood, but can't share it because of the low post count:)

Nothing stops you from posting three time in a row. What 'proprietary manual' gearbox?

Maybe I didn't translate that well, but I'm using a gearbox that was originally installed in the car.

Copper rotor suggests a brushed DC motor. Permanent magnet or series-wound?

As far as I know, most AC motors have aluminum rotors. But there are also ones with the copper rotor. They're quite rare, but nevertheless, they exist. I'm using one of those induction motors with the copper rotor.

I know this one as B1. But anyway, considering how so many different names were used for the earliest generations of the Passat around the world, sometimes it may become quite confusing. On a sidenote, reminds me of the times I used to see multimedia sets for different models (then modern) of the Passat around 2006 labelled with their Chinese names at shops in Brazil.

Yeah, a lot of different names can be somewhat confusing, but what I love about these cars is their quality. Take my Passat B4 for example, despite the fact that it's a pretty old car, it has a pretty advanced configuration: ABS, air conditioner, heated seats, airbags, it has practically everything you need.

One of my goals in the process of converting it to EV is to keep all car systems in working condition. Starting from the power steering, power-assisted brakes, air conditioner, and so on...

With an older-generation model, as their electronics are not so integrated, it's easier to get each one working properly.

I think that Passat is actually the pinnacle of the era of mechanical auto improvements. Then we followed the path of computerization. This car really holds the road well without any bells and whistles.