finished or functional ev ?

[andybpowell]

I was searching through the forum looking at peoples projects for some information about BMW 8s 70ah modules and got to wondering how many people on here actually have functional/finished cars is there a list somewhere?

[Bigpie]

Mines in daily use and has been for 2 years now.
EV8 has his RX8 in use.
Celeron has a Periva and omega
Johu the touran
Damien has loads
Catpish has the vx220
FFMan the BMW touring
LRBens MG

These are the ones of the top of my head are in use and functional

[andybpowell]

Yea damien is somewhat prolific and you forgot Tom's z3 and mine for that matter mine has been on the road under electric power for a year and although it's all tested and registered as electric it's still a work in progress I've just finished installing the 20Kw battery pack so a faster charger is probably next

[Bigpie]

I did forget yours, Toms hasn't been functional for quite a while, hopefully this will be changing soon.

[arber333]

I did forget yours, Toms hasn't been functional for quite a while, hopefully this will be changing soon.

My pug 406c works every day now and i am about to put id3 12s modules in it for improved cooling.
Now it has stripped cells from Jag Ipace in 2p96s configuration. No significant cooling with dc fast charge ----> death for cells.

[celeron55]

This sounded like a silly question at first but actually it's a good question. It's impossible to figure out the daily driven cars from the projects threads.

Should we add a tag to the daily driven or functional project thread titles so that one can list them with one advanced search? Like "[daily driven]", "[functional]" or whatever. As long as we pick one that is easily searchable and stick to it.

[Bigpie]

That's not a bad idea. There's got to be quite a few project threads that never got completed/driven.

[Boxster EV]

I’ve been daily driving mine for just over three years and completed nearly 25,000 electrical miles. I consider it finished from a project perspective, but there will always something to do to it. I’d really love a bigger battery and CCS at some stage.

[Bigpie]

Maybe [driving]? If we agree it means road legal and in use?

[andybpowell]

This sounded like a silly question at first but actually it's a good question. It's impossible to figure out the daily driven cars from the projects threads.

Should we add a tag to the daily driven or functional project thread titles so that one can list them with one advanced search? Like "[daily driven]", "[functional]" or whatever. As long as we pick one that is easily searchable and stick to it.

This was what I was thinking when I was searching through the projects for some information, admittedly projects like this hardly ever stop getting tinkered with but I was curious as to how many were finished to some driveable level whether thats up and down a private road or fully legal registered daily driver

[andybpowell]

I’ve been daily driving mine for just over three years and completed nearly 25,000 electrical miles. I consider it finished from a project perspective, but there will always something to do to it. I’d really love a bigger battery and CCS at some stage.

With 25000 on it I think we can consider it functional

[Bigpie]

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[arber333]

I will probably change battery in Mazda MX3 i have from 2012 and it has 150000km electric and some 250000km ice logged. When i start i will pin it here as a new project since i finally decided to put outlander motor in it and lose the transmission...

[Boxster EV]

I will probably change battery in Mazda MX3 i have from 2012 and it has 150000km electric and some 250000km ice logged. When i start i will pin it here as a new project since i finally decided to put outlander motor in it and lose the transmission...

This sort of mileage is impressive

[arber333]

This sort of mileage is impressive

Lets not get too exited, dont forget i made that car back in 2012...☺
Its true i will have to replace all suspensiosan rubber blocks. Now it feels like riding on squares...