Can I Revive the Wheego?
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No. I tried, but no. It looks like it's dead until new batteries can be sourced
Can I Revive the Dead Battery Pack in my Wheego Electric Car? (YouTube)
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It would be so cool if you could engine swap it with a Honda engine, or some sort of LPG system on a small 3 or 4 cylinder engine
If there was any markings on the cells did you note what they were? I've managed to find similar sized batteries, but without knowing more it is hard to tell which ones will fit and have the correct ratings.
They are Winston (thunder sky) 260 ah cells if that helps. I did find some for sale, but they're not exactly cheap and I need like 18 of them. I'll give some more detail in the near future
Oh no, a spicy pillow. That's never good. Was it charging through regen when it was being towed? Hope it lives a bit longer.
Sad to see the Wheego like that. I will miss it.
That sucks that it had to be towed home. I'd hate for it to really be dead. It's a really interesting car.
If the BMS modules aren’t talking to the dash anyway, could you just pull out the bad cells? Sure the pack might end up at 100V instead of 115V, but I’d think it’d work.
Get a trabant engine and unconvert the wheego into a normal car again as the next project series
Trabant engine connected to a generator to constantly charge the dead battery, the car equivalent of life support.
I feel your pain. I've also had the elation of repairing a car, then almost immediately calling to be towed home.
Weird to watch this after seeing some of the videos leading up to it. I think we all want to believe the little car will live again for no reason other than we have lived with it, through you, for a while now.
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