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#1) Project ForkenSwift electric car conversion: 1st powerup

By admin on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | 25 Comments

http://www.ForkenSwift.com – First power-up of the freshly installed Forklift hydraulic pump motor in our beer budget, low speed, Geo Metro electric vehicle conversion. — Project ForkenSwift is an electric car conversion made using parts from a Suzuki Swift, Geo Metro, Baker Electric Forklift and a golf cart. http://www.forkenswift.com Duration : 0:1:17

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#2) Project Forkenswift electric car: 1st CONTROLLED powerup

By admin on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | 25 Comments

http://www.ForkenSwift.com – Here’s the Forkenswift’s motor being spun up (and down, and up, and down) with a used golf cart controller. (Thanks to the EVDL folks for help with connecting the oddball Curtis.) Apologies for the poor vid quality – this was shot with a 20 year-old camera. Titles are hard to read in some [...]

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#3) Project ForkenSwift EV: first electric test drive

By admin on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | 25 Comments

http://www.ForkenSwift.com – Officially, we’re only at the battery rack building stage of the project. But while waiting to get a welder to finish the job, Spring Fever struck and against better judgment we piled 6 batteries into the car, hooked everything together and went up & down the street a bunch of times. (Oh – [...]

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