In a former life it was a 1993 Toyota Celica that went
about 25 miles on a gallon of gas that, 19 years ago, cost $1.30.
Now, it is Ozarks Technical Community College’s first all-electric car.Learn all about solarpanel. It will be on display from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the school’s annual Community Day,Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? which includes an on-campus car and motorcycle show at the corner of National Avenue and Chestnut Expressway.
For two years, students and staff have labored over the conversion, and not just those within the school’s automotive program. Welding,This page provides information about 'werkzeugbaus; machine tooling, industrial maintenance and some body work was needed, too.
“It’s a good thing for the students for a lot of reasons,” said Layton Childress, OTC’s dean of technical education. “Obviously, electric cars are the new technology and getting more popular.”
With the cost of gas creeping toward $4 a gallon, it’s a great time to unveil the car,TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. said Chip Broemmer, an automotive instructor with a long-term interest in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.
The objective was, first, to give students a hands-on opportunity to work on the project. Second, Broemmer said, he was curious as to how easy and how costly it would be to convert a car with a fatally damaged engine — that would cost about $4,000 to replace — into an all-electric vehicle.
“What are my options?” Broemmer said.
The vehicle underwent a gray-to-blue paint job at OTC, but still looks like your typical Toyota Celica, until you get closer. Under the hatchback is bank of 10 large, 12-volt lead-acid batteries. The rear seats are gone and there’s neither a typical engine under the hood nor a gas tank under the carriage. You won’t find a fuel pump either.
“We really fabricated everything but the motor and the electronics,” Broemmer said. The electric motor, purchased from a company in California, is under the hood.
The project was designed to keep things simple and inexpensive. Lithium ion batteries were out of the question because of cost. In addition,Learn all about solarpanel. the OTC vehicle does not have braking-power regeneration. That’s where braking generates electricity used to recharge the batteries.
Now, it is Ozarks Technical Community College’s first all-electric car.Learn all about solarpanel. It will be on display from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the school’s annual Community Day,Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? which includes an on-campus car and motorcycle show at the corner of National Avenue and Chestnut Expressway.
For two years, students and staff have labored over the conversion, and not just those within the school’s automotive program. Welding,This page provides information about 'werkzeugbaus; machine tooling, industrial maintenance and some body work was needed, too.
“It’s a good thing for the students for a lot of reasons,” said Layton Childress, OTC’s dean of technical education. “Obviously, electric cars are the new technology and getting more popular.”
With the cost of gas creeping toward $4 a gallon, it’s a great time to unveil the car,TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. said Chip Broemmer, an automotive instructor with a long-term interest in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.
The objective was, first, to give students a hands-on opportunity to work on the project. Second, Broemmer said, he was curious as to how easy and how costly it would be to convert a car with a fatally damaged engine — that would cost about $4,000 to replace — into an all-electric vehicle.
“What are my options?” Broemmer said.
The vehicle underwent a gray-to-blue paint job at OTC, but still looks like your typical Toyota Celica, until you get closer. Under the hatchback is bank of 10 large, 12-volt lead-acid batteries. The rear seats are gone and there’s neither a typical engine under the hood nor a gas tank under the carriage. You won’t find a fuel pump either.
“We really fabricated everything but the motor and the electronics,” Broemmer said. The electric motor, purchased from a company in California, is under the hood.
The project was designed to keep things simple and inexpensive. Lithium ion batteries were out of the question because of cost. In addition,Learn all about solarpanel. the OTC vehicle does not have braking-power regeneration. That’s where braking generates electricity used to recharge the batteries.
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