{"id":208,"date":"2007-06-14T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/06\/14\/diy-electric-truck\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T06:38:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:38:42","slug":"diy-electric-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"DIY Electric Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/electrictruck.jpg\" alt=\"do it yourself electric truck\" \/><\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\nKenneth Watkins, an electrical engineer from Orlando, Florida, decided he&#8217;d like to make an all electric vehicle for his commute. So he bought a truck, ripped out the combustion engine and associated bits, installed an electric motor, controller, and battery bank, and voila, he had a great all electric truck. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are the specs on the vehicle:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motor: Advanced DC FB1-4001A Series Wound DC <\/li>\n<li>Drivetrain: 5 speed manual transmission <\/li>\n<li>Controller: Curtis 1231C-8601 (95-144Vdc) 500 Amp <\/li>\n<li>Batteries: 24 Trojan T 105, 6.00 Volt, Lead-Acid, Flooded<\/li>\n<li>System Voltage: 144 Volts <\/li>\n<li>Charger: Zivan NG-3 <\/li>\n<li>DC\/DC: Converter Power-One <\/li>\n<li>Instrumentation: 60-160 V Voltmater, 0-400 Ammeter, Tachometer, Controller Temperature gauge, Acc. Voltmeter <\/li>\n<li>Top Speed: 70 MPH (112 KPH)<\/li>\n<li>Range: 50 Miles (80 Kilometers)<\/li>\n<li>Conversion Time: 3 months <\/li>\n<li>Conversion Cost: $15,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to do a conversion, contact Ken at (407) 805-0766 or through <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendid=188161606\">his MySpace page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Watkins, an electrical engineer from Orlando, Florida, decided he&#8217;d like to make an all electric vehicle for his commute. So he bought a truck, ripped out the combustion engine and associated bits, installed an electric motor, controller, and battery bank, and voila, he had a great all electric truck. &nbsp; Here are the specs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-3m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}