Early Construction Designs
Mass-EV Chassis
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This is a Trojan T125 6v (3 cell) deep cycle battery (weight 30kg)
This is about 200Ah so is 1.2kWh
A design for a 61 battery chassis
That one includes a controller (left in red) and a bank of supercapacitors between the batteries and controller.
Total pack capacity is 61 x 1.2kWh = 73.2kWh total.
Layout of the car
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Batteries only (click for full size)
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Components
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The wheel size 255/60 R 18 is selected from a large SUV (BMW X5) which needs to carry the weight (converter).
The battery weight is 30kg(66lb), so the pack weighs 3 tonnes (2.95 imp ton).
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