ahebron Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mot.....o-battery-power.htmlAdrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktheherald Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Didn't the BBC feature this company on one of their programmes some time ago? Countryfile or similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hammond Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 That car used to belong to long term Triumph enthusiast Leon Guyot. I remember him owning it but it wasn't electrically powered then.Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herald948 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Quoted from Mark Hammond That car used to belong to long term Triumph enthusiast Leon Guyot. I remember him owning it but it wasn't electrically powered then.Mark True, but I've been given to understand that, at times, the performance of Léon's car indeed was electrifying! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hammond Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I believe that it was one of the quicker Heralds out there at the time.....Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I remember him turning up at Triumph Care in Kingston in it in about 1986 while I was working there part time. It was gleaming red and he had to park it next to my scabby old 1200, which was suffering badly from the mange at the time.Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshman Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 No mention of cost? Anyone any idea of how much the conversion would cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Simply put,not cheap!decent electric motors and batteries are still expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymcp Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 How does the brake servo work? They could have saved a bit of weight by removing that. Then again, with the weight of all those batteries... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitumen Boy Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 When you look at the cost of the batteries, the range they'll give and the likely lifespan, the fuel economy of the old Triumph engines doesn't look too bad at all... 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Quoted from marshman No mention of cost? Anyone any idea of how much the conversion would cost? £ 5 - 6 K minimum. Necessary parts are expensive here. I've been kicking the idea around for a few years now, but always comes back to cost. Lead acid......... why? Better things available now, yes even pricier but performance/weight so much better and beginning to find their way onto the used market as accident damaged EVs and hybrids get broken for spares.No brake servo on a Herald..... Ironically the extra weight from the batteries probably makes one more necessary.Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Talking about cost: Quoted Text Dragon Electric Vehicles build high performance electric Sports cars, designed for both road and track. This sprint car chassis is designed for hillclimb events where the high torque of electric motors can be used to give tremendous acceleration. A rigid spaceframe chassis is needed to ensure accurate handling when large amounts of torque are applied to the road. DIY conversion kits start from £7000+vat, and conversions from £11000+vat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymcp Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Quoted from Nick Jones No brake servo on a Herald..... Ironically the extra weight from the batteries probably makes one more necessary.Nick Not as standard, but the photos show one fitted to that car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahebron Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 It probably has an electric vacuum pump to create vacuum for the servo.Adrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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