Homemade electric go- kart
This is my new electric go-kart. I built it using an old kart which was in pretty bad conditions. I restored a lot of parts including the chassis. There was a lot of cutting, grinding, welding, painting and fabrication.
I’m currently using a 1.5KW and 48V brushless DC motor and four 12V batteries. Although it’s quite heavy I’ve achieved a top speed of 35-40km/h and the batteries last about 30 minutes.
In a near future I’ll have to do more weight reduction and in a long term maybe make it hybrid with a small petrol engine or convert it into a drift kart.
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video, we need a video of you hooning. plz
I’ll make one soon
=)
Have you looked at Lipo batteries? I use my drone ones on an electric pushbike conversion I fitted and they work great. Mine is a 15ah 50v set up using 6x 6 cell 5ah batteries with the batteries in pairs to get 50v and the 3 pairs then run in parallel to get me 15ah.
I run four chargers at home so takes just over an hour to charge all of them and then its good for 15-20 mile range at speed. I’ve had it up to 34mph on the flat (not on the public road of course officer)
Batteries fit in one of these (just) and minus the box weigh 4.5kg
I searched it for myself and asked to people who work with batteries and the Lipo batteries were too expensive. It’s true that they wheight half or less than the ones I haver but a Lipo battery (or a set of batteries) with the specifications I need cost about 600-700€ and that’s too much for me.