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Did you mean to include a link or something with that?

Seems as though you'd be able to snag an electrical engineering student from one of the colleges or universities in your area and get some advice?

Any updates on how this project is going? Did you ever get that controller issue figured out?

I'm surprised the motor you have is not working better for you. The stock engine is admittedly underpowered at 80 HP, but unless I'm looking at the wrong model, isn't the electric motor you selected more than double that? (Plus, in a lot of applications you can get by with a smaller electric...

Any further progress on this?

You have much more restraint than I do. I don't think I could resist driving it around the block, or at least around the yard.

Looking forward to hearing how it goes.

If you can make the video, the YouTube part is simple and free.

Cool! Would love to see pictures if you have time. Defintiley want to see pics/video of it in the parade, if that happens. John

I'd love to hear an update on your progress on this project.

Glad to hear you are making progress.

Great image there... I tend to think of my truck as a "fast tractor" (it beats thinking of it as a slow truck). If you do electric reversing, you may want to limit the top speed. Scary to think of someone expecting it to work like a normal vehicle, and then find out it will go full speed in...

I'm curious about the decision to keep the transmission. Couldn't the electric motor just turn a driveshaft going directly to the transfer case? Eliminating the transmission would be the equivalent of driving in 4th gear all the time. (Minus the friction and weight of the transmission.) You'd...

Any updates on how this is going?

@Johnbyrdgates - What is the status of this project? I'm realy interested to see how it's working out.

No, just thought about it a lot (I've always been interested in homebrew electric vehicles. Although I've never done one, I put a lot of research into it back when I was in high school). Also, I'm in the middle of a swap from a 230 to a 251 engine (Tim Holloway is doing th real work on this, but...

I'm guessing it would be easier to just find an electric motor of the appropriate size than tear apart an electric power steering unit for its motor (at any rate, if you HAD an electric power steering pump, you could just USE it, rather than tearing it apart to use the motor for your existing...

Maybe just a smaller electric motor to run your hydraulic pump? Might be simpler than arranging some sort of neutral detection, and then remembering to shift into neutral in order to steer when stopped.

Don't they make electric power steering units? Though maybe they are not appropriately sized for a vehicle this heavy?

Actually, it was quite common on the home-built electric cars of the 70's. THey generally only used 2 of the gears, however, since the torque band on an electric motor is far wider than on a gas engine.