Damien do you think non-watercooled units will overheat on daily cruising? The performance target is very moderate anyway.
Sounds good. I won't need a throttle pedal, A2 has electronic one already. So you'd get the funds together, order the parts and have them shipped over here? That would be great. Maybe better to go for Prius transaxle for the sake of better cooling? Lets wait for another word from Damien.GaryClarke wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:21 am I will follow progress and document. The aim being to produce a how-to-guide to converting an A2 using Toyota hybrid parts.
The first objective to fund will be sourcing the parts. My initial search was for Generation 3 components.
Trans axle : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... x&_sacat=0
Transaxle mounts? : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... s&_sacat=0
Inverter : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... r&_sacat=0
Drive shafts : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... s&_sacat=0
Throttle pedal? : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... l&_sacat=0
HV wiring; https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_osac ... g&_sacat=0
A catchy initial target for the project would be 60 miles at 60 mph of range for £6000. Or in metric 100 km at 100 kmh for 6000 euros.
So with 3800€ for my surplus Leaf battery and say 1000€ for motor parts we'd be looking at 5000€ for about 160km of sensible driving.
Yes that would be great. I could compare it with my findings in Touran. I hope it will be identical as Audi=VW. In that case I could reuse the Touran code.arber333 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:31 pm Johannes i got an offer from a friend who is driving a converted A2. It uses an old 30kW motor and inverter of Slovenian design. Aleš an Me made my inverter according to this design. System is 210Vdc.
Audi A2 is a pain because you need a host of CAN data to send so that main column knows that you are "running gas guzzler".
He is offering for me to listen on his CAN adapter that is sending that info over CAN so we can replicate its signals. I bet this will save you or anyone else a ton of trouble. I just need to go to him and make this work now with COVID19....