With the big Electric Vehicle event coming up at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama track on July 29th (the Centroc Summit and EV Challenge) it was great to have Robert and Lorry from Enersys come on board with a batch of their high-discharge led acid batteries - the Odyssey PC680. With these little black and red boxes of lightning, we’ll have 490kva available to us - making (we believe) our EV battery pack the largest in Australia!

With a 1000Amp motor EVnetics motor controller supplied by Anthony Nicholls, the car is going to absolutely scream at the Bathurst! What’s the weakest link? We’re going to keep a close eye on the gearbox...

Here’s a short work-in-progress video of the build as at June 28th, 2010.
(Apologies for the quality... I shot it on my iPhone... if I took my pro camera gear, I wouldn’t get any actual car building done!!)