nice seeing everything mocked up by hand and custom fabricating as little as possible. makes it feel a lot more feasible for a determined enthusiast with some know-how to install a kit like this themselves. would love to see EV conversions become more accessible
I just subscribed as i watch things on the Pinzgauer. I live in British Columbia and own a moded 1979 Dodge 4x4 van with a 354 Perkins diesel. And of course converting auto`s to EV is cool. PS I`m an old retired mechanic, welder so really love smart guys doing smart stuff.
Did you measure the actual centre of mass ("gravity") height and calculate the increase due to the conversion? It might not be much worse than the original (due to the high position of the original engine), but it will certainly be higher than it would be with the battery in two saddle-mounted packs.
Very interesting project. So thanks for sharing. Few things came to my mind: 1. mentioned DC-2-DC to 12V .. If I'm not mistaken then those old military were 24V trucks. So mistake, or are you going to step everything down from 24V realm to 12V ? On one side it will make sense as a lot of things, like LED/Halogen lightbulbs for automotive, has more available variants as it seems to me in 12V realm. 2. how it will be with water/EMP proofing of all the electronics? It seems to be super important if you want to keep it off-road capable and not just asphalt tight showcase. 3. How it will be 'street-legal' and do you plan to let's say sell/offer such conversions for other mere mortals? Thanks for any comments.
Thanks for the questions - 1. We plan to have everything in the low voltage word to be living at the 12v mark. 2. As for waterproof/weatherproofing, we will be using some of the existing side pods to accommodate most of the devices and make sure thy do their job of keeping everything dry and protected from the elements. One of the nice things about the products/devices we offer and have chosen to use as part of our build recipe, is that most of them can live in pretty harsh environments on their own. So the work we are doing will further protect them with from the elements. 3. Street legal, well she is a 1971, so exempt from emissions testing...so that part is pretty straight forward.
Currently we do not have the thermal management set-up to live in an environment like you have mentioned - BUT, we do have a strategy sorted that would allow us to add that feature so the system could perform without issues in a cold environment. There is a heating element that would have to be added that we can control with our VCU. It would warm the ethylene glycol that we also use to cool battery pack when in warmer operating temps - so we would be able to keep the packs at the ideal temps to give us the best range/performance possible. So, if we SoCal boys decide to go skiing or way north, we will have to make that change...
OMG an electric Pinzgauer has been my dream for 20 years. I am drooling, please more vids sooner. Thanks you for doing this!!!!
nice seeing everything mocked up by hand and custom fabricating as little as possible. makes it feel a lot more feasible for a determined enthusiast with some know-how to install a kit like this themselves. would love to see EV conversions become more accessible
This is what looks like a target for pinzgauer owner. I like what you are doing keep it up . We don’t have enough patience to see the results 😍
How funny yesterday I asked how the project was going and today the video. Thanks for sharing
I was one of the dingers. Thanks again for the update.
I just subscribed as i watch things on the Pinzgauer. I live in British Columbia and own a moded 1979 Dodge 4x4 van with a 354 Perkins diesel. And of course converting auto`s to EV is cool. PS I`m an old retired mechanic, welder so really love smart guys doing smart stuff.
Did you measure the actual centre of mass ("gravity") height and calculate the increase due to the conversion? It might not be much worse than the original (due to the high position of the original engine), but it will certainly be higher than it would be with the battery in two saddle-mounted packs.
I can't wait to see this beast running on four wheel 😁
What's the range on batteries? With generator? Time to charge with the generator? Top speed?
Very interesting project. So thanks for sharing.
Few things came to my mind:
1. mentioned DC-2-DC to 12V .. If I'm not mistaken then those old military were 24V trucks. So mistake, or are you going to step everything down from 24V realm to 12V ?
On one side it will make sense as a lot of things, like LED/Halogen lightbulbs for automotive, has more available variants as it seems to me in 12V realm.
2. how it will be with water/EMP proofing of all the electronics? It seems to be super important if you want to keep it off-road capable and not just asphalt tight showcase.
3. How it will be 'street-legal' and do you plan to let's say sell/offer such conversions for other mere mortals?
Thanks for any comments.
Thanks for the questions -
1. We plan to have everything in the low voltage word to be living at the 12v mark.
2. As for waterproof/weatherproofing, we will be using some of the existing side pods to accommodate most of the devices and make sure thy do their job of keeping everything dry and protected from the elements. One of the nice things about the products/devices we offer and have chosen to use as part of our build recipe, is that most of them can live in pretty harsh environments on their own. So the work we are doing will further protect them with from the elements.
3. Street legal, well she is a 1971, so exempt from emissions testing...so that part is pretty straight forward.
Is there consideration for running in snow and below zero temps.
Currently we do not have the thermal management set-up to live in an environment like you have mentioned - BUT, we do have a strategy sorted that would allow us to add that feature so the system could perform without issues in a cold environment. There is a heating element that would have to be added that we can control with our VCU. It would warm the ethylene glycol that we also use to cool battery pack when in warmer operating temps - so we would be able to keep the packs at the ideal temps to give us the best range/performance possible. So, if we SoCal boys decide to go skiing or way north, we will have to make that change...
regen braking?