I made some progress on the front battery box today. It's been so long since I last tackled anything on this project I had to re-learn how to tig weld....

Making room for the new cross braces. cutting and grinding always makes such a mess.

Welded Nuts in place before tacking the angle iron in place.

One battery installed.

Digital Dashboard

After pricing a set of replacement Porsche Gauges at well over $1k, I decided it was time to build a digital dashboard. I had a Raspberry PI sitting around and ordered a 7 Inch hdmi display. The Solition1 controller broadcasts its data over the Ethernet cable using UDP, and they provide an example data logging application in c. After a brief search of the Internet I settled on Qt for the GUI since it would give the greatest flexibility, with qml for the graphics and c++ backed. Now to lean Qt and for a refresher in c++. I'll try to maintain the code on Github in case anyone is interested, but its most likely messy and broken at any given point.

Raspberry Pi and HDMI Display

Modified Qt 5.6 Quick dashboard demo

First Drive

Last summer we purchased a home, and while I'm happy to no-longer be a renter the list of projects has grown considerably slowing my progress on the EV. Fortunately I can report that no trailer was required to move the Porsche across town. I borrowed the 4 Lead acid batteries from my electric motorcycle and completed the 2-mile cross town trip, at a blazing 20 mph.