
Here's Gary in front of his garage. There are EV toys everywhere!

Each of these yellow modules is a lithium-ion battery pack for DeWalt tools. Gary is hand soldering together several hundred of the cells in these modules to make a battery pack for his Insight.

Here's one array of DeWalt lithium-ion cells. The current boxes are wooden, but Gary plans to upgrade them to FR4 (fire-resistant) later to help prevent a fire. The whole pack should weigh around 200 pounds, which is far less than the 1200 pounds of lead-acid cells I'll have in the 914.

Here is the heavy duty crimper that I borrowed from Gary (Thanks!). I'm looking forward to firing up the motor.

After a run to ParkRose hardware, I picked up some 2/0 high-current lugs, some colored shrink tubing (red/black) with adhesive, and a 10-guage dryer cable to attach the Zivan charger to the battery pack through an Anderson connector.
Next up: fixing the bolts on the Azure Dynamics AC24 motor...
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