We have been very busy the last weeks. A lot of school work and a couple of major events happening to the car.
First we got our batteries, they are 30Ah, 12V and all together they weighs over 1.2 tons.
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| 120 UPS batteries ready to be tested. |
The batteries is from PAF´s UPS system that were scheduled to be exchange for new ones. We are not going to use all 120 of them. So after a load test we picked out 32 of the best batteries. The plan is to use 32 or 40 batteries depending on how much the car starts to weigh. The rest is going to be a backup.
Next big thing was that we got the car soda blasted.
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| Ready for transport. |
When we got the car back it was filled with soda. So the first job was to clean it and start preparing it for the painting
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| Nice and shiny. |
At the front we noticed a lot of small surface rust rings, this is probably from stone shots.
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| A little paint and this should start looking sweet. |
At an event here on Åland the company Tesla Motors brought 2 Tesla Model S for the public to take a closer look on. You could also take one of them out for a test ride.
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| Here is Simon doing some industrial espionage again. |
The next week we are going to prepare the car for the painting and we are also going to do the final mounting of the motor.
