EV Conversion Basics - Calculating Components

http://electricbimmer.com   / electricbimmer   In today's installment of the EV Bimmer series, we discuss how to get started with quantifying the basic components you may need in your electric car conversion. To do this, we go over calculations regarding volts, amps, kilowatts, kilowatt hours, amp hours, watts per mile, kilowatts to HP, and a bit more. All of these are important in finding out what category of components you need to look for. You can use these to work your way back from, say, horsepower, and figure out how many volts and amps your system should have to give you that amount of performance.