Aircooled VW South Africa

I remember quite a while back seeing an article on an electric Split Bus. The conversion was done by a University Engineering Team. I'm not sure if the following has been posted before but I found it absolutely fascinating. This Green bug was the first one I read about:
http://www.diyelectriccar.com/garage/cars/299

There are quite a few more VWs on that site. I like the panel bus:
http://www.diyelectriccar.com/garage/cars/276

I have been wanting to build on of these for years now..... verry cool thanks for posting !

Just a point of interest, the LiFePO4 cells are rather cheaply available from china. Also the big mama speed controllers are also obtainable from those industrious yellow fellows.

I think to do this and really benefit nicely one would have to set up a bank of solar panels and make the battery packs easily removable. Then while one pack would be charging at home the other would be running in the EV.

Or one motor per wheel
http://successmotor.en.made-in-china.co ... 5000w.html

IIRC there was a guy earlier in the year that was doing electric Pumas. In SA I think.

beetlefanatic wrote:IIRC there was a guy earlier in the year that was doing electric Pumas. In SA I think.

http://www.evdrive.co.za/