Converted Electric Forester

theflystyle · Post by **theflystyle** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:15 pm

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ ... 50365.html

"This is a converted 1999 Subaru Forester. It ran 162k miles on gas and now will finish as a plug in 120volt fully electric car. It takes no more than 8 hours to charge from dead empty. Range is 12-15 miles, so its just for around town. NEVER BUY GAS again! Approximately 70 cents to completely charge. All bells and whistles work just as they did before! "

magicmike · Post by **magicmike** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:41 pm

all that for 12 miles of electric only power?

joeWM · Post by **joeWM** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:06 pm

....if you turn off the heat will it go faster?

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:57 pm

Never buy gas again! Just 10 batteries probably at least every year. For a car that couldn't cover 5500 miles/year under the most optimistic conditions. Figuring a good deal on deep-cycle batteries at $80/ea. (are Optima's even deep-cycle?) and his electric rate not changing from $.70/charge that's a whopping overly-optimistic best-case-scenario loss of $175.50 a year over a gas car that gets 25 mpg on $4/gal. gas! That's also not counting the shortened life of suspension components from all the extra weight, the shit top speed (though I guess that doesn't matter with the range restriction), lousy acceleration (has to be with only a 120V system), loss of storage space, and original cost of conversion. All this to replace a pretty reliable and cheap engine. What a deal.

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:36 am

I can't believe it's got all those batteries and it only goes 15 miles.

jefferson · Post by **jefferson** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:31 pm

And everybody claims their electric cars have 0 emissions. I am sorry but unless you charge that car with solar cells or wind power, the emission just got transfered down to that coal fired plant that everybody wants gone. Greenies some times don't think things through very well.

Jeff

AWD_addict · Post by **AWD_addict** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:09 pm

Why would they sell such a perfect vehicle?

beatersubi · Post by **beatersubi** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:52 pm

jefferson wrote:And everybody claims their electric cars have 0 emissions. I am sorry but unless you charge that car with solar cells or wind power, the emission just got transfered down to that coal fired plant that everybody wants gone. Greenies some times don't think things through very well.

Jeff

Or nuclear or hydro.

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Converted Electric Forester

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