The AustinEV crew getting set up for Sunday’s Austin Mini Maker Faire
I spent the day at the Austin Mini Maker Faire at the AustinEV display. We had a great showing with Ben’s Jeep CJ7 conversion, Fred’s MGT kit conversion and our recent refresh of Brian Lasseter’s car to Lithium. It was a beautiful day and we got to talk about home built EVs with a bunch of savvy makers. Here’s hoping we see some of them at future meetings showing off their own electric vehicle projects!
Happy New Year!
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Hi folks,
I’m Chris Robison, and though I’ve been with REVOLT since the beginning, I haven’t had much to do with the blog until now. I’m going to be making an effort to contribute here as much as I can going forward, as we’d like you to see some of the stuff we’re working on.
At the moment, we’re in the finishing stages of a retrofit of lithium batteries into what is actually our very first REVOLT build, a 2002 Saturn SL we did back in 2007. This one had flooded lead-acid golf cart batteries previously, and so we expect a much improved driving experience (and a much cleaner engine bay) once the conversion is done. We’re switchingto 130Ah CALB lithium iron phosphate cells, and keeping the pack voltage around 150VDC.
