It has been asked how the Jeep is doing, GREAT.  Last summer she received an award at the Polson car show, and had fun driving around the lake.  Solar is booming, but I am still driving her every hot day I can. 

Cruisin' the Bay car show Polson, MT

Trailer her home, rough ugly drive!

At the car show

Friday Night Concert in the park

In the trailer en route to Polson

                                                                       In Polson, MT

Test Run

One of the first driving experiences.

Moved to a new shop/office, 1120A Kensington.

New turn signals/hazard light control installed.

Batteries loaded into rear of jeep.

Five batteries in the front. 

 Charger 120/240VAC to 120VDC
should take 6/12 hours for complete charge

Batteries in rear of Jeep

Kelly controller mounted.

 Warp 9 motor mounted in engine compartment.

 

 Airbags in rear suspension to hold the extra weight of batteries.

Thank you Inland Truck Parts 

Motor mount done!

 Here we got the final measurements to complete motor adaptor plate

motor hub, flywheel, and motor all connected

 Installed flywheel to motor hub

Finally we have moved into a real shop, >3500 square feet of Heaven.

Random Pictures and comments on our progress

interior

Montana Backwoods Shop (Costco $195)

The front grille is on a hinge, how sweet!

Warp 9 accessory shaft, we will not be needing this!

So the challenge, make the electric motor match the gas

The wire arrives.  We now have a direct distributor license with Cobra Wire. 
Made in the USA, this is very fine stranded flexible wire and is UL listed for battery wire.
We are using size 4/0.  This is based on the 800 Amp controller we are using.

Cardboard "mock up" of proposed bell housing adapter plate.

Wooden motor mount, cardboard motor to bellhousing adapter, and of course
Montana backwoods foam insulation motor!  (foam is light weight)

Proposed battery box in front of Jeep

The start of rear battery box cover!

Front battery box.  White oak was used and encased by metal angle iron.

This is one panel, reflection from "overhead door"

auto cad adapter plate for flywheel to electric motor hub.

Amorphous solar panel is really cool!

Solar Panel to charge 12 Volt battery

So we are installing an eye catching Kaneka Solar Panel.  This 12 volt panel will keep the 12 volt accessory battery charged.  The 12 volt battery is deep cycle and will be used for the radio, lights, blinkers, etc....

Warp 9 Motor arrives

 We have chosen the Warp 9 Electric Motor.  This motor is widely used in electric vehicle conversions.  This motor should have more power than we can handle!

Choosing the batteries

We are going with 20 deep cycle batteries rated at six volts, 205Amp hours C/20.  These will be wired in series to achieve 120Volts nominal.  Seems like fifteen batteries will sit in the back of the jeep and five up front.  I figure we removed 700 pounds worth of gas engine so the front is okay.  The back will have an extra 950 pounds, similar to two military soldier and their gear!

The gas engine is removed

Removal of the engine.  This was quite easy and was followed by removal of all extra junk not needed with the electric motor!  Removing the gas tank was the most enjoyable.