Vehicle test report: Electric Vehicle Associates electric conversion of an AMC Pacer

Technical Report · Thu Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5511852

Price, T W; Wirth, Jr, V A; Pompa, M F

The EVA Change of Pace, an electric vehicle assembled by Electric Vehicle Associates of Cleveland, Ohio was tested at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) dynamometer facility in Pasadena and at JPL's Edwards Test Station, located near Lancaster, California. The tests were conducted between 28 August and 7 December 1979. These tests were performed to characterize certain parameters of the EVA Pacer and to provide baseline data that can be used for the comparison of improved batteries that may be incorporated into the vehicle at a later time. The vehicle tests were concentrated on the electrical drive subsystem; i.e., the batteries, controller and motor. The tests included coastdowns to characterize the road load, and range evaluations for both cyclic and constant speed conditions. A qualitative evaluation of the vehicle's performance was made by comparing its constant speed range performance with those vehicles described in the document titled State of the Art Assessment of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. The Pacer performance was approximately equal to the majority of the vehicles tested in that 1977 assessment.

• Research Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AI01-78CS54209
• OSTI ID: 5511852
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/54209-4; ON: DE82005811
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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