Last year I sent an email to a guy with an electric car association that did
a short thing on local tv.  These are guys with their own little network of
supporters and companies that build their own electric cars and racers even.
After I got a reply I sent him the info on a vanagon.  It could be done but
the range would be short.  Under a 50 mile radius.  The rear passenger area
would be totally covered in batteries.  They said with new batteries that
they are testing for a company that range would probably go to a 75 mile
radius.  Problem is that the better the battery the cost per watt goes even
higher until technology improves  and/or production costs come down.  The
cost estimate was about 3500US without the batteries and me doing the
majority of the work other than the mounting of two electric motors to the
rear wheels.
jimt

On 9/2/05 9:29 PM, "turbodieseltrooper" <turbodieseltrooper@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
wrote:

> I would love to see a pratical electric powered vehicle - remember the max
> torque from an electric motor is available from 0 rpm. Additional power can
> be achieved by adding additional voltage at an increased amp draw. No need
> to tear into an engine to extract extra power.You could get all the tire
> shreding power you want. You'll never see this though, because current
> batteries are just too short lived