Zig's Amazing Electric Vehicle Photo Gallery
A few snapshots of my electric car.
Zig and Zig's Amazing Electric Car. Yes, that's a 6'10" (208 cm) Zig standing next to a tiny little Cabriolet, and yes, I really do fit in it. With the top down, I have infinite headroom. With the top up, I do bump the top. So I learn to slouch when driving....
![Zig and Zig's Electric Cabriolet](VWandZZ.jpg)
The electric car all by itself.
![The Cabriolet](VWAlone.jpg)
The engine
compartment, viewed from the front.
Now occupied by batteries and an electric motor. No engine!
![Engine Bay, From Front](VWEngineFront.jpg)
The engine
compartment, viewed from the right. The bright
red box is the controller, which controls the amount of current
sent to the motor (based on how hard I push down on the "gas"
pedal).
![Engine Bay, From Right](VWEngineRight.jpg)
The motor and transmission. The car still uses the original 5-speed manual transmission that the Cabriolet had as a gas-powered car, but the big engine is replaced with a small electric motor.
![Motor and Transmission](VWMotorTranny.jpg)
The rear battery box. I feared that the 8 batteries in the Cabriolet's rear compartment would completely use up my Cabriolet's tiny trunk. But the batteries are mounted under the trunk in a clean polypropylene box. The only space I lost was for my spare tire, which now sits on top of the batteries in my trunk.
![Rear Battery Box](VWBattBoxRear.jpg)
The crew at Mike's Auto Care who did such a fantastic job on the conversion. Left to right, Adam Slominski, Bart Rushing, Mike Slominski.
![Mike's Auto Care](VWMikesAutoCare.jpg)