Recent content by ProtoThad

A good point. I suspected as much, which is why I intend to keep my initial proof of concept relative light / low range. I am still intrigued by the possibility of a custom solid state battery swap-out with zero or minimal weight increase... but that of course can't happen until solid state...

The challenge in that is you need the equipment to lift the chassis and drop the battery, not to mentioned what is needed to drain and refill the thermal management system (expensive). And again... if I just wanted a bigger battery, I could have bought one of the other reasonably priced i3's...

This is what I was thinking... reuse the existing REX location, as I understand that is basically unused space in a BEV. I was initially thinking of limiting my battery pack to the weight difference between the 60Ah and 120Ah battery pack, which is 43kg. That would be a rather limited range...

I recently bought an older i3 BEV as my around-town errand car. Being a 2014 with a well used 60Ah battery, its range isn't great, but well within my needs. Nevertheless, as an embedded electronics nerd, I thought it might be fun to try and boost the range by hacking up a custom range...