Nissan Frontier EV Conversion

[J1000]

Battery boxes fitted to the truck and they barely fit! Literally less than 1/2" of clearance, but clearance is clearance!

Next up, filling the boxes with the battery cells and completing the HV wiring.

 

[J1000]

In the final stages of this build now. The main high voltage battery is installed and sealed up. All the major systems are buttoned up and back together.

Just need to get the interior put back together and figure out the bed lift system. The bench seat is getting reupholstered and having heating elements installed in it. Once it's back in the truck we can test drive it!

Wired the LED driving lights to come on with the high beams:

 

[Notyourmomslx450]

Look into low riders and how they did bed lifts back in the day...

 

[J1000]

Look into low riders and how they did bed lifts back in the day...

I'm hoping to use a 12v linear actuator vs. installing an air system, but right now anything is on the table. Would be cool to have hydraulics and have a real dump bed but it's not in the cards.

 

[Notyourmomslx450]

I'm hoping to use a 12v linear actuator vs. installing an air system, but right now anything is on the table. Would be cool to have hydraulics and have a real dump bed but it's not in the cards.

no air or hydro. i was thinking more along the lines of something like a piano hinge and some gas struts and just manual power...

Just my thought.... build looks great

 

[J1000]

no air or hydro. i was thinking more along the lines of something like a piano hinge and some gas struts and just manual power...

Just my thought.... build looks great

Good idea, I thought about gas struts as well. That's probably the simplest and best.