09-15-2013 Lithium Update #2

As you probably know, we can custom size the battery racks to fit your choice of Lithium batteries. 

Since our test car used the standard racks, our lithium conversion is using spacers to keep the batteries in place. We decided to use three different materials for the spacers to illustrate each. 

 

The Top Rack has plastic (HDPE- #2) spacers. 

The Trunk Rack uses Aluminum. 

And the Nose Rack uses wood spacers. 

09-01-2013 Lithium Update #1

We had a choice of mounting the cells in the Nose Rack upright or on their side.

Upright mounting would require spacers to raise the Controller/Charger Backet for clearance. 

But since side mounting is a common use case, and presents a number of challenges, we decided to use it. 

More to come...