Homemade electric go- kart
This is my new electric go-kart. I built it using an old kart which was in pretty bad conditions. I restored a lot of parts including the chassis. There was a lot of cutting, grinding, welding, painting and fabrication.
I’m currently using a 1.5KW and 48V brushless DC motor and four 12V batteries. Although it’s quite heavy I’ve achieved a top speed of 35-40km/h and the batteries last about 30 minutes.
In a near future I’ll have to do more weight reduction and in a long term maybe make it hybrid with a small petrol engine or convert it into a drift kart.
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Have you looked at Lipo batteries? I use my drone ones on an electric pushbike conversion I fitted and they work great. Mine is a 15ah 50v set up using 6x 6 cell 5ah batteries with the batteries in pairs to get 50v and the 3 pairs then run in parallel to get me 15ah.
I run four chargers at home so takes just over an hour to charge all of them and then its good for 15-20 mile range at speed. I’ve had it up to 34mph on the flat (not on the public road of course officer)