It seems to be a usual quad doesn’t it?
But something is wrong here.
What about the engine noise?
I’ll tell you everything now, lets go!
Hi there, as usually its me just a voice over and today we’ve got for the review one more
unique machine.
This time we converted all wheel drive ATV CF-moto X8 into full electric.
There was 800 cc engine that was replaced with powerful electric motors.
And today we are going to do the first tests of this conversion.
All the works were done by our friends from Emax electric tuning studio.
Well I’m looking forward to show you the details of construction, so get comfortable
my friends it is high time to begin!
The original quad is a big two seats machine.
Most part of the transmission, engine and cvt were removed.
Instead we placed here this huge battery made of LG elements with 72 volts power and 240
ah capacity.
The battery fits here beautifully, it looks like a serial production solution.
The hardest task of the whole project was to convert the full drive transmission.
To solve this task Emax engineers made special reducers.
Its absolutely waterproof gears with belts that transfer the drive from electric motors
to the differentials.
As to the motors there are two of them at the front and from behind.
The power of the each motor is 22 kwts.
The charger is integrated into the body, the battery can be charged by a standard socket.
There are some loose ends that we still didn’t finish, the lights don’t work, the dashboard
isn’t modified, so now we have just a battery indicator.
The handling is the simplest.
This button turns on the power.
The next controls the full drive.
And the third one turns on the reverse.
Well that were the main features of this conversion, all the rest details we will discuss later
and now its time to go!
We start our tests on asphalt to check the speed performance of the machine, and first
of all lets see how it starts.
As we can see it takes off and speeds up so fast!
You know it is very hard to convey all the emotions when you push the throttle on this
conversion, but it is really and insane stuff.
The main task when you start moving is to keep the handles tight not to fall down from
the quad.
We have here an instantaneous reaction on the throttle cause there is no any more huge
amounts of gears and parts of the combustion engine, there are just straight electric drive.
Well it definitely speeds up faster that the original quad with the gas 800 cc engine.
On the other hand this coversion was done in favour of torque, not maximum speed.
So the speed is slightly slower here than on original quad.
As we can see the maximum speed is 85 kmh.
Now we are moving on the forest road at a rather high speed, thanks the suspension system
allows us to do that.
By the way speaking about the other features of the conversion.
All the its parts – the motors , the battery, controllers and reducers are absolutely waterproof.
As to the weight.
The conversion weighs approximately the same as the original quad.
But the most impressive feature of the project is certainly the quietness.
The matter is that the engine noise is one of the most irritating characteristic of any
quad.
Moreover it may annoy not only you, but also all you neighbors, that is why many people
don’t like quad riders.
And this problem has absolutely gone here.
Lets watch the same move by the gas quad and our electric one.
The only noise we can hear with electric quad is the sound of the breaking of twigs when
we are moving right through the forest.
Besides it is so fun to watch the reaction of the other riders, when they see our big
quad cutting its way through the bushes without any engine noise.
Some of them were really shocked.
And now it is time to test our quad in mud.
Though I think you may know the offroading capabilities of such quad.
They are really capable of it.
But again it is so strange to watch the big and heavy quad going hard across the dirt
without any irritating engine noise.
All we hear its just a sound of spreading dirt and water.
Besides I should mention that the electric torque also does a lot of good when in dirt.
You can feel it so precisely, the throttle is very delicate to touch.
At any moment you can stir a finger a little bit and the quad jumps off from any trap like
a beast.
Also it is very handy feature to switch on the revers mode only by pressing one button.
This feature may help you not to get stuck in the hardest conditions.
And now we are approaching to the main test for today.
Definately it is a range test.
How far can it actually go?
Well, lets find out!
Now we come back home to recharge the battery and will start the new trip to test the total
range!
Well it is a new day the battery is fully charged and we start gps tracker to measure
the distance!
By the way we will be accompanied with other quads, and lets refuel one of them to find
out who will go futher, full charged electric quad or gasoline one with full tank.
As to our todays route.
Firstly we will have few miles going on asphalt.
But it is not right to test the ATV on asphalt, that is why the most part of our trip today
is rough terrain, dirt and various obstacles.
So we are leaving the asphalt for the more proper conditions.
When we started this test we didn’t have an idea how far we would go.
That is why to be on a safe side we took a generator with us and mounted it on a trunk.
But we will not use it until the battery is dead.
After about three hours of our trip we stopped to have snack and to meet one more quad rider
on Polaris big boss.
The route meantime is getting harder, but with a big boss support we don’t afraid
of any obstacles.
We are going farther, crossing quite tough offroading sites, huge paddocks, rivers and
swamps.
We even used the winch several times.
Generally speaking it is a very hard test for the battery.
You should know we are doing now not a traditional range test going on asphalt.
It is offroading range test and it is absolutely different thing in terms of battery load.
And again I want to say few words about one of the most significant advantage of the electric
conversion.
Again about the quietness.
Lack of noise is especially important at such a long trips.
You are going without any irritating sound and the smell of exhaust.
All you hear it’s a wind, bird songs and other sounds of nature.
And you may really enjoy your adventure without any disturbance.
Meantime it is getting dark and we start to realize that we will not be able to empty
the battery today.
So it was unnecessarily to take the generator with us.
Nevertheless we can demonstrate now how it works.
When the generator is working we can procede moving.
And if the speed is under 30 kmh the battery will not be discharged, so it is quite an
useful feature if you are going to the distant expeditions on an electric quad.
Well it is almost dark outside and we don’t have any lights so it is time to go back home.
And summing up my impressions of todays trip I should say the conversion is definitely
quite successful.
We’ve got a powerful electric quad that is a good for all kind of terrain, it is fast
and smooth it is almost noiseless.
For example Polaris big boss has spent today about 15 dollars for fuel, but we’ve spent
a way less for electricity.
Meantime we ran out of fuel on our gasoline quad, but we still have a lot of energy in
battery.
But it is time to come back home.
And its high time to check the result.
And the result is 57 kms.
And we should remember that the route was pretty hard, it was a real offroading.
Moreover we still have 43% of battery!
So I should say the range is really impressive!
Thanks for having a ride with us!
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