Basics of Homebrew Electric Vehicle Design

The electric motor from a standard forklift can be salvaged and used in an electric vehicle design.

These motors can be purchased on ebay for a few hundred dollars, search ebay for "forklift motor"..

These motors can run(slowly) on a single 12 volt car battery, but can also be operated by using either two car batteries in series(24 volts) or by using three car batteries in series(36 volts).

The speed of the motor is dependent on how much voltage you are pumping into the motor.

A basic forklift motor test run using a single 12 volt car battery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyN7HMunxv0

It is common to replace a car's gas engine with a standard forklift motor, the forklift motor can be connected directly to a vehicle's transmission or can also be connected directly to the vehicle's driveshaft.

I have watched a video before of a very snappy porsche that actually performs better with one of these motors compared to the gas engine that it had from the factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECFn2QTldHk

and this video is a beautiful example of how simple it can be to design an electric vehicle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vCKLC7GBmc

I like it

these electric motors can be salvaged from an electric forklift.

these electric motors can be used to replace your car or truck's internal combustion gas engine.

these electric motors can be connected directly to a vehicle's transmission or directly to the driveshaft.

many typical maintenance issues would be eliminated, such as replacement of spark plugs and wires, replacement of oil, replacement of timing chain, etc..

this electric motor does not necessarily need to be operated using a large bank of batteries, but instead you can use a small gas engine that is connected to an auto alternator that could automatically keep the minimal battery bank fully charged..

It might be possible to run a motor vehicle on one or two car batteries and a five horsepower gas engine and an auto alternator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLEy8p9Xu8

ebay search:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=forklift+motor&_sacat=0