Well I promised myself I would have the first drive of my RAV 4 (EV) by Thanksgiving. I'm happy to say I made it. Even though the delivery of some parts held me up, I made my first powered drive today. It's really a lousy,rainy day so I only had a chance to drive around the parking lot but even at that it seems I will have a great performer. I don't have the air conditioning motor mounted and running and my DC to DC converter will not be delivered until next week. In addition I must be careful when going over speed bumps since my underbody battery pack would drag due to my losing 3.5" of original vehicle height. Hopefully my set of four RAV4 EV springs will be here soon. For all those who expressed an interest in seeing some photos I'm slowly uploading a web link. I did make one change mid stream. I installed a Toyota MR2 electro/hydraulic power steering pump in place of the original pump. It really works great. Only thing now is to get a circuit set up to detect when to turn the pump on and off. Idle power is just a little over 180 watts but every little bit helps.
