Put a Tesla motor in any car or truck ever made

[JRP3]

Eldis on DIY has a Tesla inverter running a ..... light bulb. It's a start.

http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=637642&postcount=74

 

[lolachampcar]

That looks like a bypass of the inverter controller board and an insertion of control level signals into the power section of the inverter. For me, the real prize is the ability to pop a MS motor/inverter package into XYZ, hook a throttle pedal to it then send the necessary CAN traffic to get the system to work as designed. Of course, any step forward is progress.

 

[JRP3]

For those interested in deep CAN sniffing Jack does some CAN talk and Colin Kidder does a piece on using his Savvy CAN program, starting around the 1:14:00 mark,
https://youtu.be/0VTGhC5WUaA?t=1h14m28s I'm not a CAN guy but from what I understand it looks very interesting. The program is still in development, and it does crash on him, but after the crash he restarts and looks through some Model S data.
Then at 2:00:00 Jack shows some Model S test bench progress, and expects to have it turning after this weekend when the EVTV Hack Team shows up to work on it. Eventually he may install a Model S motor in a Factory Five GTM, which could be pretty interesting. https://youtu.be/0VTGhC5WUaA?t=2h Pro tip, I used to download the shows to watch them at double speed in VCL player, but recently found that Youtube has the same features in the "Settings" menu.

 

[JRP3]

Colin says they had the Model S motor turning this weekend. Video coming soon.

 

[JRP3]

Eldis on DIY got his going today as well. Would have done it sooner but he forgot about the parking pawl and thought he had a broken gearbox :biggrin:

 

[scaesare]

Whoops... lol... but good stuff!

 

[JRP3]

And Jack is selling a CAN capture device for the Tesla Model S: http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=TeslaCANKit&cat=28

 

[lolachampcar]

Any word yet on if there is any type of authentication occurring before the drive unit will fire up? It would be interesting to see if it is just a few CAN initialization messages and a dual or triple swipe throttle pedal input needed to use the power unit.

 

[JRP3]

Doesn't seem as if there is any authentication but I think we'll have to wait for the video for details from Jack.

 

[lolachampcar]

I had a VW rail buggy as a kid. I'm looking forward to rail buggy V2 with some batteries on the front to give it some grip.

 

[JRP3]

Video from Eldis:

 

[lolachampcar]

Paraphrasing
I'm not going to power it up any more because I do not want to have it roll across the floor. I did that already and it is not good for the wood floor or the apartment.

Gotta love this guy. I could listen to him all day



I is going to be fantastic when the CAN enable communication is sorted. Tesla did a superior job with the whole inverter/motor/diff packaging.

 

[rabar10]

Paraphrasing
I'm not going to power it up any more because I do not want to have it roll across the floor. I did that already and it is not good for the wood floor or the apartment.

Gotta love this guy. I could listen to him all day



I is going to be fantastic when the CAN enable communication is sorted. Tesla did a superior job with the whole inverter/motor/diff packaging.

At 13:14 -- "So as you can see, the motor is spinning -- the shaft is spinning happily. We cannot go too fast at this moment, because I don't want this drivetrain to leave this room and roll somewhere else -- which already happened to me in the past with a different motor and I do not wish to repeat that -- especially a wooden floor does not like sharp rotating objects."

:biggrin:

 

[JRP3]

EVTV video up, not on youtube yet but downloadable on Jack's site, Tesla stuff starts around 59 minutes: http://www.evtv.me.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vidarch.html

 

[JRP3]

Youtube version is up:

 

[qwk]

I know that Jack and I don't see eye to eye on many things, but I have to congratulate him and the others for being able to pull this off. I'm sure this wasn't easy. I can't wait to see what they stuff it into....

 

[lolachampcar]

How do these guys normally make learned information available (if they do)?

 

[palmer_md]

"All your Tesla's are belong to us." That was awesome. You can feel the excitement right through the video.

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How do these guys normally make learned information available (if they do)?

Usually he puts a link in the blog post about the video. It'll be either on his site or github. Blog update varies but usually about Wednesday or Thursday.

 

[JRP3]

EVTV Blog: http://evtv.me/2015/06/all-your-drive-unit-are-belong-to-us/

 

[wycolo]

MS has no parking pawl, just the e brake, according to Johan. Press P and hold as car slows to an e-stop, cleaning the pads in the process. Maybe his pawl is just non-functional. :scared:
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