Latest picture of the electric buggy.

Built and welded from scratch a fully suspended electric buggy.

24V deep cycle batteries. I should have gone with a 48V motor controller but was space was limited.

Quick and dirty power switch and potbox just for testing.

Alltrax 24V 400A motor controller.

Another shot of the buggy.

Another shot of the buggy.

Another shot of the buggy.

Alltrax motor controller wiring and solenoid.

This rear swing arm and powertrain definitely required some thinking but it turned out well. Note the disc brakes. They don't don't work for some reason :-).

Shot from the driver's seat.

Upgraded to 72 volt controller with reverse.

Early testing of new LiFeP04 custom battery pack in 3P16S configuration to give around 52.8 volts and 75 Ah capacity.

New 3D printed control panel with on/off and forward/reverse swithes.

The first electric vehicle I built for my son. It originally used a 12V surplus winch motor which definitely had some pep but a terrible duty cycle. That combined with the fact that I was powering it with 24V and, yeah, it burned up. The new version of this vehicle now uses a 130V, 3 HP surplus treadmill motor which is nearly indestructable and smooth as silk.

Early photo.

A new and improved version of the buggy. There is a version 3 which is even better but I need to get some pics of it and once I do I will include them here.

This is the gokart that started it all. This later was turned into the blue buggy above.