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Project ForkenSwift is driving!

Posted Apr 16th 2007 at 4:04PM by Mike Magda

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Green Culture

The electric car on a beer budget project is road worthy. We featured this team of EV converters earlier as they took an electric motor from a forklift and dropped it in a Geo Metro. While a welder was working on the battery rack, the team wired up six batteries for an impromptu test drive on city streets. Check out the team's website for more history on the project and updates.

[Source: YouTube]

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Tags: electric car conversion, ElectricCarConversion, forkenswift

ForkenSwift: Electric car conversion on a beer budget

Posted Jan 13th 2007 at 10:41AM by Mike Magda

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, GM

Don't know where these guys are located (their Web site isn't up yet) but their first two videos covering the electric conversion of Geo Metro are worth watching. The project is called ForkenSwift and the crew is using a hydraulic motor salvaged from a forklift. The first video showed a quick power-up using one battery. Now the team has added two more batteries and a controller from a 48-volt golf cart. They seem to know what they're doing and it looks like they've got a hit series out of their garage. Can't wait to see more of the conversion.

[Source: YouTube]


Tags: forkenswift

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