Please find this buggy
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With that track is it BMC ADO16 based?
I don't know the car basis, but I don't think is related to any BMC car
Latin American?
No
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Made in Europe ?
Yes
Made in a former Warsaw Pact country ?
Yes
Made in East Germany ?
No
Made in Russia ?
No
Made in Poland ?
No
Made in Czech Republic ?
Yes
Was it built before 1980 ?
No
Was it built before 1990 ?
No
Was it built before 2000 ?
No. 2010 it's the date
Skoda-based?
No
home-made?
No, two companies are involved in this project
The car apparently is their own creation, but they used a known car engine block
German engine ?
Yes
VW engine ?
No
Ford engine ?
No
Opel engine ?
No
BMW engine ?
No
NSU powered?
Mercedes-Benz powered?
No
BMW powered?
Wartburg engine ?
An Audi engine?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on November 04, 2018, 03:39:51 AM
No, two companies are involved in this project
Is MTX/Metalex one of these?
Is the engine manufacturer still active ?
Trabant engine ?
Yes
Is it a stock Trabant engine, or is it converted to run on another kind of fuel ?
Converted
A Brno University Project?
I think it's not University related, but it did participate in some contest in Brno
Elektrostar
Yes, that's the One. Locked for you to complete the answer
Elektrostar Car Project by Rotex Electric. BLDC electric engine set in a Trabant engine block.
Yes, that's one of the companies involved. Still locked
Car is also featured on Emerze Elektro website. Is that the name you're looking for ?
That's the one
I'm puzzled. Any electric engine, whether brushless or conventional, is a rotary engine and not a reciprocating engine. So how can it utilise the engine block from a petrol engine? Can anyone explain please?
This is what they say about their car:
Elektrostar Car Project
Motor
developed for the aircraft, the vehicle is specially adapted.
3-phase BLDC high frequency, voltage 63 V, output
25 kW (a brushless motor with electronic commutation), weight 3.2 kg, 7800 rev. / Min.
The electric motor is put into the engine block of the Trabant, the dry clutch.
Option settings for the engine computer.
Battery
Trojan brand, 10 x 6, 250-300 Ah, weight 320 kg, a lifespan of 15 years (after 700 charge cycles capacity of 180 Ah) max supply current 400 A.
Transmission
Edited: Trabant 601
Gears
First level of 30 km / h – climb 25 degrees,
Second level of 50 km / h,
3rd level of 70 km / h,
4th degree freewheel.
Dish
Light cavalry
driver 45 kg: 7.5 h, maximum speed up to 45 km / h, range 305 km,
driver 85 kg: speed up to 70 km, 5 h, the average speed of 42 km / h, range 210 km,
load 200 kg (2 adults and 2 children), bezepčný range of 130 km, average speed 55 km / h, road II. and III. class. (South Moravia)
sporty ride up the hill (Hillclimb) – within 1 h
(if previously disconnected automatically due to overheating).