No pistons, no fuel, no worries! Toyota Sera EV Conversion begins…

[VA61DETT]

Hah ha, for sure...

Needs more flux capacitor

Was actually going to drive to the servo yesterday... just to pump up the tyres. grin.

-A

[knightrous]

Great work! Been following this thread for a few months, great to see it up and running.
I think a doc brown promo video is in order!

[TERRA Operative]

Heh, Mr Fudsion is an awesome idea. The original one was made from a coffee machine.


You should pull up at a busy servo, pull out a retractable power lead and start looking for a power outlet around the pumps.

[Sciflyer]

well done!

[Cuts]

congrats, i bet the people in that vl (if there was people in the vl) would have been like WTF that car is doing an engineless burnout.

congrats, top job...much better then top gears effort

[jono]

is it true you must have some sort of sticker/badging stating its an EV? any design/font ideas?

my next project will definitely be electric, hopefully into a ke26 panel van.

[VA61DETT]

Cheers cheers

More videos to come soon.
Now that I can get out of 1st, will do some power runs & hopefully collect some useful info.

-jono
Yer just need some standard high voltage warning labels around the car.
Will prolly make up something cool too, need a copy of the 'sera' font for new badges, grin.

-A

[TERRA Operative]

Here's something that could help with embroidery...

http://www.omicron.uk.com/sera/forum...showtopic=5249

[TC1600]

congrats, i bet the people in that vl (if there was people in the vl) would have been like WTF that car is doing an engineless burnout.

congrats, top job...much better then top gears effort

TG AUS or TGUK? They have just made one in the new series, and in true TG form, it's awful

*edit* linky

[MWP]

TG AUS or TGUK? They have just made one in the new series, and in true TG form, it's awful
*edit* linky

Not just awful, but plain stupid.

I thought they were actually going to try to make something decent, but no, of course not
Worst segment on TG ever.

[Draven]

c'mon.

Did anyone expect them to have a serious go? Entertainment, not technical expertise.

Just have a look at 90% of their other efforts... maximum entertainment, minimal sense or actual drive to achieve their goal

edit: but I agree. for a segment that took up about half the show, it was utter, utter rubbish, and did nothing but annoy me the whole time.

Unlike the first amphibious cars episode, which was equally daft but funny as hell

[VA61DETT]

Got to watch that this evening...

Sounds like the top gear AUS Guys made a better effort

Small update.
Have to make a few minor mods to battery box connectors to get my battery gauge working correctly.
Will most likely be having another decent test run toward the end of the week, boot / bonnet on etc...

-A

[Scuzzy]

Fantastic!

Will prolly make up something cool too, need a copy of the 'sera' font for new badges, grin.

I tried tracing the logo a while back, there is a layer in this photoshop document with the paths you could use...

http://www.omicron.uk.com/sera/forum...er&#entry47859

[VA61DETT]

-Scuzzy

Rad,
Cheers, was halfway into doing the trace too..

-A

[VA61DETT]

Minor Update
Thursday, 3 December 2009

Finished some minor re-wiring of the battery box so my e-pro gauge works correctly, now setup & calibrated.
Had to re-locate the brake vacuum pump, & rubber mount it… as it is seriously annoying (even though it only runs for 10 seconds at a time).
In the process of building a circuit to handle / clean up the magnetic tacho pickup for the zilla / dash tacho outputs.
Made a neat little logo sticker thingo for it @ work yesterday, (thanks to Scuzzy for the vector graphics)



Hope to have the bonnet / boot back on this weekend for a decent test drive!

-A