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finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:46 pm
by 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?
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:40 pm
by 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
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:59 am
by 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
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:27 am
by Bigpie
I did forget yours, Toms hasn't been functional for quite a while, hopefully this will be changing soon.
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:17 am
by arber333
Bigpie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:27 am
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.
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:45 pm
by 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.
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 9:43 pm
by Bigpie
That's not a bad idea. There's got to be quite a few project threads that never got completed/driven.
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 10:10 pm
by 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.
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:38 am
by Bigpie
Maybe [driving]? If we agree it means road legal and in use?
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:31 am
by andybpowell
celeron55 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:45 pm
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
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:34 am
by andybpowell
Boxster EV wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 10:10 pm
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
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:29 am
by Bigpie
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:09 am
by 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...
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:44 am
by Boxster EV
arber333 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:09 am
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
Re: finished or functional ev ?
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm
by arber333
Boxster EV wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:44 am
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...
