Guess where the Batteries are kept??

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I'd say the batteries are in the large chequer plate box in the back and or up the sides.
What gear box or diff dose it run?

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Didnt get all the details. I was running late for a wedding, but the batteries go in the side panniers, and it can do 100km-h

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Think I like the sound of my straight cuts and weber better...not to mention its the cheapest car possible to run already...
However, big respect to the whoever has the skills and knowledge to build such a vehicle. I'm sure it would be no easy feat.

throwing it out there...

every other leccy car i've seen had motor orientation the same as it's fuel burning donor... that motor's north south in a previous east west configuration... what gives?

A company in Sydney does it....

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At a guess I'd say they went inline to avoid creating a need for a transverse gearbox specially designed for a Moke wheel base.

Plus delivering all the torque instantly through a transverse box of unequal drive shaft lengths would create murderous torque steer.

(remember there is no gearbox, as the electric motor delivers all the torque at 0 rpm you do not need gears to multiply the torque as you do in an internal combustion engine)

It has a rear diff from another car underneath the motor with a large gilmer belt drive driving the input of the diff.

http://www.mokesinc.org/index.php/topic,7783.0.html

Its nice to see it finished, the thread went dead on the Moke forum.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

Wow, that is an idea that I had in mind for the GTiR gear that I have. Congratulations to the owner/builder!

Can anyone shed any light on how an electric motor behaves on decelaration? Does it just free rev like a jet or 2 stroke motor?

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

If it's anything like an small scale RC car (which I admit it might not be) it might be able to have "drag brake" programmed into it - so you could have anything from almost not needing a brake pedal, to complete freewheeling.

But full scale cars may be different

stu

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"smooth seas do not make skillful sailors"

It depends on the motor controller and the system adopted. Some electric cars (usually ones that run on AC) have regenerative braking, so that when you lift off the go pedal the motor acts like a generator and tops up the battery a little bit. Others work like esskays64's RC car and can vary the amount of 'engine braking' that feeds back.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

GT Tooling in Windsor NSW built it.. apparently they have done several now.

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GT Tooling
34 Railway Rd, Mulgrave, NSW 2756
(02) 4577 7716

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I wonder how well that heater will work and why is ther still an expansion tank in the engine bay?

Suppose you could plug an Electric heater into it...

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