I saw a Beetle with that same conversion and the owner told me the same as
far as battery expense. Then again I really like the sound of our little A
engine ; )
Vroom-vroom.
Lin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Leo S <60bugeye@cebridge.net> wrote:
> THAT particular bugeye is owned by a young engineer here in Houston (or was
> owned) . Conversion was well executed and required no cutting or mods
> whatsoever to be accomplished. He could change the tourque curve of the
> motor from his palm pilot. Nice conversion but a very costly one also. The
> main issue in the end of his project was that its range was only around 50
> to 65 miles on the current battery system AND the batteries he really needed
> were going to cost around 15K. Yea...just the batteries were going to be
> 15K. You can buy a lot of gas for that much moola. If nyone wants more
> pics of it e-mail me. I think his asking price was 15k for the car as it
> sat. Alan F....Think minilites and your memory will remember the owner:)
>
> Leo
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