[DRIVING] VW Touran powered by Nissan Leaf [FINISHED]

[johu]

Added some branding

Will get the E license plate in two weeks.

Need to work on those rust patches eventually.

[Berdi]

Sincerely Congratulations !!!!

[arber333]

Will get the E license plate in two weeks.

Very nice!

Why do you need E licence plate? Do you get any benefit on parking/charging because of it?

[johu]

Thank you

Yes in Kassel you can park for free with E plate. Not that I go there often, but still. Plus it proves that my little E- isn't just a fake

That said plugin hybrids also get the E plate

[RetroZero]

Nice one Johannes

[JaniK]

I am going to need that text you have under my licence plate too. Is it a sticker on the frame?

I have been thinking about some openinverter.org stickers for some time. Is it something someone is doing allready? Stickers could be nice product to send in a letter mail for a fixed price that would make some level support in price too.

[Isaac96]

I have been thinking about some openinverter.org stickers for some time. Is it something someone is doing allready? Stickers could be nice product to send in a letter mail for a fixed price that would make some level support in price too.

I'm interested in some OpenInverter stickers too (car is finally running).

-Isaac

[johu]

It was printed directly on there: https://kennzeichenhalterung.de/
They were like 6€ each.

The text is just their standard font, openinverter logo is attached. It says "Ein OPENINVERTER.ORG Elektro Umbau" equivalent to "An OPENINVERTER.ORG Electric Conversion"

I can also get some more printed and put them on the shop, what do you think?

[Kevin Sharpe]

I can also get some more printed and put them on the shop, what do you think?

Great idea... can you also add some T-Shirts to the shop?

[johu]

Yes I will look into that
Obviously that would say "Building sine waves since 2008"
Or it could say "Demystifying EV technology (since 2008)"
What do you think?

[Kevin Sharpe]

What do you think?

I like "Building sine waves since 2008" and maybe a version in German

[JaniK]

Cool, didn't know they were available that easy.

As Kevin stated, maybe a version in german.
Ein, zwei, dreiphasig..

German stickers fits nicely for little OEM look in our german cars..

[mdrobnak]

Cool, didn't know they were available that easy.

As Kevin stated, maybe a version in german.
Ein, zwei, dreiphasig..

German stickers fits nicely for little OEM look in our german cars..

I see what you did there.

[johu]

Final step done - E-Kennzeichen

Almost a bit boring with nothing left to do I will wrap the damaged chrome grill in blue. Maybe I will fit an android "radio" like Shane.

[JaniK]

nice. If its finished maybe take some time off and I bet you will get a lightbulb moment and want to invent something new again

[mcgousha]

Congrats Johannes,

It must be great to see that E plate as evidence of all the hard work.

I have yet to use the "radio" for anything other than playing with settings on the inverter and watching plots of data....but it's great for that

[RetroZero]

I have a Blaupunkt Philadelphia 835 (from Polo) that might do the job... Pm me if you're interested

[johu]

I made a playlist of all Touran related videos:


Thanks, will see what a Blaupunkt Philadelphia is and might get back to you

EDIT: checked the Blaupunkt. While it would certainly be an improvment it does not have Wifi, so I won't be able to tap into the inverter or VCU. Thanks anyway!

[RetroZero]

A bit off topic, but putting a wifi dongle on a USB aux would not get a connection?

[johu]

A bit off topic, but putting a wifi dongle on a USB aux would not get a connection?

It would rather surprise me, is there even a browser on it?

Today I worked on cruise control. Basically implemented the resume function and added a ramp. So when you press "+" or "-" or resume, it actually ramps up or down the speed at a defined rate. Much smoother operation now.

See stm32-car project for details

[johu]

Started looking into the noisy DC/DC converter issue (noisy as in fan vibration). I removed the fan and ran it, it really vibrates a lot. Most be cheap and has quite some run out. So have ordered a Papst replacement fan.

Also the shaft coupler vibrates at around 3000rpm on regen. I think I will eventually replace it with a solid construction (no claw coupling).

[Speedy]

How much effort is to take everything apart to get to the coupler? I'd imagine it's a fair bit huh

[johu]

How much effort is to take everything apart to get to the coupler? I'd imagine it's a fair bit huh

Oh yes indeed. Will probably tackle this in fall/winter so I can start out with a more silent car next spring.

Today I tried to convince my wife that you can go on long trips with an EV. Here is what happened:
I cruised on A7 at 120km/h . It's very hilly around Kassel (Germans know this as Kasseler Berge). So consumption was rather high at 21 kWh/100km. Sure enough the SoC needle dropped quite fast and I got off to a fast charger. There was already a Porsche Taycan charging there so charging speed dropped to 25kW. So we quickly took dog for a walk and went to the next fast charger. Arrived there with my glorious collection of RFID cards only to read "please use the app".
But I didn't bring a smart phone.
Called service. They started the charging session which quit after 5s: charger fault.
Ok I thought, this is a small problem as we still had enough juice to at least reach an AC charger and I had brought the 11kW charger.
So got back in, put the key in ignition and..... it wouldn't turn. No matter how hard I tried and how much I wiggled - nothing.
A worker lent me a bottle of WD40, no good. He said he knew his way around VW and disassembled the steering wheel But he couldn't fix the issue.
Finally we decided to get a flatbed truck. They bring you to the nearest garage by default. "But sir, this car is a bit special, it's converted to electric". Of course I had to pop the hood and let him take pictures. And we decided to rather bring the car back come. On Diesel power

So here I am back home and learning some lock picking. Who thought that in a home brew EV the god damn key mechanism would ruin your trip
Wife convincing will need another go

[mdrobnak]

You can't make this up!

Sorry to hear this happened, but in retrospect quite humorous!

Lesson: always bring cell phone and clearly WD-40

-Matt

[Speedy]

Oh dear, that must have been really frustrating but at least it was an OEM part that failed and nothing EV related.

I won't ask what the wife thought of it all