We’re going to drive it in the parade on Friday! It’s a little crazy having a winter parade, but we’re doing it! We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully I won’t have to call triple A again!!!
Hi Michael, do you have pics?
Mileage?
Year land type of lithium
$? Thanks.
I just put new gels in my 72 V, but would be interested in upgrading. I assume new parts are available on a ’14?
Martin
Martin ,
sorry for the delayed response . Someone locally saw it and said they wanted it . Need to follow up with them first .
It has the green lifepo4 batteries in it that INWO sells . about 400 miles on them . I put a re manufactured t5 controller in it from Flight systems so I dont know what exact mileage is . I would guess 10k miles . These are the only pictures I can find of it at this time . Will look for some more in the next few days .
We drove it in the parade on Friday and it was a big hit! Surrounded by gigantic gas guzzlers with other gas guzzlers on them it was the only carbon neutral float in the parade. We handed out pencils and kids actually wanted them! Fun time was had by all. It’s great to have the electric car going again!
Here’s a pic of the one we had before. It was a solar car built by Art Haines.
Nice photo! How much this solar car cost?
By the way, I found an interesting review about How Much Do Solar Cars Cost? - Blog About Solar Energy | Websolarguide
Around 3 grand, and we sold it back to the inventor, who sold it to another school as a leaning project. It was really fun. It’s in our film, Peak Oil: A Love Story on youtube. It’s about a third of the way into the film.
I unplug and replug the car every week or so. I was really dismayed to find no charge, even though it was making all the right noises, etc. Today I checked and it’s fully charged! I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s working now!
Just purchased a set of 31DCMJ’s from O’Reilly’s…was told they are the same as 31DCM and the J stands for Johnson Controls…they searched the database for 31DCM…none were available anywhere…
These are classified as a starting battery by Johnson Controls. They do not have a Deep Cycle rating. Since you now own them please keep us up to date on their service.
The 31DCM are manufactured by East Penn and are the private lable version of their DEKA Deep Cycle brand.
In a message dated 3/26/2020 5:07:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, electricforum@discoursemail.com writes:
@Trip Thats an interesting frontend on your GEM.Can you post some more pics? Did you build it?
How about the rear body?
Yes we built the car, the grille is from a 1937 Morris 8 we used to have, rest of the nose is frp with a wood frame under it. Back body was done in wood. Learned quite a bit about what we did right and what we did wrong. Going to start building another one soon.
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Well-done! Did you start with a 2-seater GEM?
Started with a two seat gem truck
We’re having trouble again with our Gem. We put in new batts, and reset the charger, but now it’s not charging up completely. Any ideas on why? It was charging completely in December, but then I put it in a shed and charged it every week through the winter. Now we’re going to take it out again (after the snowstorm). It’s just getting to about half charge even charging it every day.
Why do you think it is only half charging ?
The charging bars only go to half way up after I plug it in again.
that usually means your gauge is out of calibration . Chechech your batteries first . than adjust your meter .
How do I adjust my meter?
The car still won’t run at all.
I’m pretty sure the batteries froze over the winter, even though I tried to charge them frequently.
Just found your post and I figured I would throw in my 2 cents worth of Gem experience. I will start by saying I am far from a Gem expert. My experience is with 12 volt automobiles. With that being said, batteries that have frozen are probably shot. If you suspect a problem with the charger you could always charge each battery (individually) with a 12 volt automotive charger. I’m pretty sure a Delta Q will not charge if the combined voltage is too low. Several years ago I fought with my Delta Q charger with various fault codes. I finally gave up and replaced the charger with a RFF charger. It killed me to purchase a new charger (they aren’t cheap) but it was the best thing I ever did. Never had a charging problem again.