Driving my Electric Car with my home made 3 phase inverter running a Siemens Ford Motor. My inverter is now running Sensorless vector mode allowing me to control motor torque.

Driving my Electric Car with my home made 3 phase inverter running a Siemens Ford Motor.

Peak Moment 52: Otmar Ebenhoech has worked with electric vehicles for decades, watching as popular commercial EVs were developed, then recalled when their legal mandate was overturned. He sees improved battery technologies as the catalyst to enable widespread acceptance of EV’s. Peek under the hood and watch a test drive of his hot electric Porsche race car conversion (0-60 in less than 5 seconds!).[www.cafeelectric.com]

Battery charging system, 8 Sunforce 15W amphorus panels, 3 Harbor Freight 15W amphorus, 2 55W Siemens. Xantrek Trace C40 Charge controller, Power Bright 1500W pure sine. 11 12V 35Amp Hr. Sealed AGM batteries. Why???? Eventually to charge my electric car.

www.ForkenSwift.com – Here’s the Forkenswift’s motor being spun up (and down, and up, and down) with a used golf cart controller. (Thanks to the EVDL folks for help with connecting the oddball Curtis.) Apologies for the poor vid quality – this was shot with a 20 year-old camera. Titles are hard to read in some places, so here they are 1. Another Forkenswift milestone… 2. First CONTROLLED electric power-up 3. No more welded jumper cables, like last time… 4. This time we’re hooked up to a …