Quest for an Electric Porsche Boxster.
Today, Sunday August 8th, 2010 is the first birthday of Nothing's Shocking, a lithium electric conversion of a 1999 Porsche Boxster. Although not completely finished, Mark and Aaron have achieved sufficient progress to mark this day a major success. The car was test driven a short distance before the steering linkage disengaged. The car drove with only one battery string out of three feeding the Zilla Z2K,with amperage limited to 200A to protect the batteries. The performance was better than expected with surprising torque in 3rd gear. We struggled to get the car back into the garage because of the steering problem. Once inside on the racks, the steering problem was related to incorrect reassembly after removal of the gas tank. We are expecting rapid completion of the other battery strings in the next couple of weeks, and are hopeful the car will exceed predicted specs!
