3000gt Electric Conversion?, anyone seen one? Options

[anyadang]

I read this article on CNN last week about electric conversions, and they mentioned a company here in NH that sells all the parts, etc. So I contacted them and asked if I could see one of their vehicles. They didn’t have any in their shop, but they put me in touch with a guy near my office that has an MX3 he converted.

This afternoon, I met up with him and checked it out. It was awesome. The hatch was full of marine batteries and he had 4 more under the hood. It was completely silent. He commutes 15 miles a day – does highway speeds. He charges off 120v nightly. His $/mile is about $0.02 according to him.

Does anyone know of a 3000GT electric conversion? We’re about 600# heavier stock (NA) than his MX, but we have a bigger engine and transmission (those go away). Plus, we have a lot more space for batteries under the hatch.

[Lewiman06]

maybe its just me, but taking the engine out of these cars is kinda like running a corvette on batteries.

i think its almost dissrespectfull........ (well, excluding the rediculious 166HP base model)

[anyadang]

maybe its just me, but taking the engine out of these cars is kinda like running a corvette on batteries.

i think its almost dissrespectfull........ (well, excluding the rediculious 166HP base model)

Here's your battery powered vette: http://www.evalbum.com/2020

(IMG:http://www.evalbum.com/img/2020/2020b.jpg)

[BlinkRA182]

eventually, this will be a viable thing to do...but not now. Everything's too big, too heavy, too expensive, and too limited in power and range.
Honestly, for what you'd spend doing this and making it as fast as stock and as practical as stock...you could buy a chevy volt AND another 3/s.

[anyadang]

eventually, this will be a viable thing to do...but not now. Everything's too big, too heavy, too expensive, and too limited in power and range.
Honestly, for what you'd spend doing this and making it as fast as stock and as practical as stock...you could buy a chevy volt AND another 3/s.

The guy I met did his MX3 for under 6K, and he said more than half of that was in batteries. It's only draw-back was the range from what I could tell... only about 60 miles he said. But he lives 10 miles from his office, so not an issue for him.

It might not have been a race car, but it was dam cool.

I'm sure it wasn't even close to any production car in terms of safety - he was over the original weight, and some of the wiring was scary if you ask me.

[Lewiman06]

i'm not saying its not cool or anything like that, but for a 3/S it just doesn't seem practical

[Meep]

i'm not saying its not cool or anything like that, but for a 3/S it just doesn't seem practical

The best conversin company I have seen is jungle motors.

I feel that 3000GT chasis is way too heavy to be practical for a conversion

youhave to find the least wieghted car with the most availiable space.

Thus why many communer cars such as civic are made great conversion cars.

Allthough the conversions at jungle motors give 100 miles plus. Iris really costly

[girly vr-4]

The guy I met did his MX3 for under 6K, and he said more than half of that was in batteries. It's only draw-back was the range from what I could tell... only about 60 miles he said. But he lives 10 miles from his office, so not an issue for him.

It might not have been a race car, but it was dam cool.

I'm sure it wasn't even close to any production car in terms of safety - he was over the original weight, and some of the wiring was scary if you ask me.

Buy a $500 honda civic DX that gets 40mpg, and save yourself the other $5500... to put towards your gas bill.

Does anyone else see the irony in spending so much money to save a few nickles per mile?

Nevermind the fact that your alternator could NEVER charge those batteries for a long trip, so you're completely hosed for long-distance driving. and 15 mile commute will take over a decade of driving to make up the money you spend installing all of those batteries, nevermind the fact that those batteries won't live long enough for you to get your monies worth out of them. You'll end up spending MORE money than you would have just filling your car up with gas, and driving sensibly.

[anyadang]

Buy a $500 honda civic DX that gets 40mpg, and save yourself the other $5500... to put towards your gas bill.

Does anyone else see the irony in spending so much money to save a few nickles per mile?

Nevermind the fact that your alternator could NEVER charge those batteries for a long trip, so you're completely hosed for long-distance driving. and 15 mile commute will take over a decade of driving to make up the money you spend installing all of those batteries, nevermind the fact that those batteries won't live long enough for you to get your monies worth out of them. You'll end up spending MORE money than you would have just filling your car up with gas, and driving sensibly.

I'm going to do it as soon as I get a few cars out of here... it more able the technology and process than it is about the cost of driving. It's not the case with me, but I think a lot of folks are doing this because they think they're saving the environment - that argument doesn't really stand up though.

[BlinkRA182]

I'm going to do it as soon as I get a few cars out of here... it more able the technology and process than it is about the cost of driving. It's not the case with me, but I think a lot of folks are doing this because they think they're saving the environment - that argument doesn't really stand up though.

all your going to do is ruin your car. it's going to be impractical, costly, and slow as a dog.
the environment doesn't need saving and its going to change whether we drive electric cars or not, because that's what the environment does...just like its been doing for millions of years.