Hybrid Electric Vehicles Forum

Welcome to the Hybrid Electric Vehicles Advice Forum by Electricians Forums.

Share your knowledge with other Professional Electricians from across the UK.

Electricians Forums now has 600,000 members and is the Worlds largest electricians forum, online since 2006.

  • We have 2 PHEV vehicles in the family which we charge overnight in the garage, each car plugs into a normal 3 pin household socket. There is a small garage Hager consumer unit in the garage which has a 16A MCB protecting all the wall sockets which are wired with 2.5mm cable. The car chargers […]
  • I have just bought a Kia Xceed plug in hybrid.The battery charges at 3kw either using the 13amp plug or the Type 2(I think) cable. My question is the best outlet for charging the car? I am thinking of running a 6mm twin and earth directly back to the mains and fitting just a 13amp […]
  • Is it possible, if and why not iff so, To fit an EV motor and controller directly to the stator output of a 125cc motorcycle engine, (pre regulator) Using a fixed throttle set up to increase revs to the required output and to bring it down to the engines normal idle revs for when stationary […]
  • Hi, got asked a bit of an odd ball request at work, one boss has one of them Mitsubishi PHEV things. And the charger is knackered. I had a look at the charger and it had melted the relay inside which was easily replaced, looked to of been caused by a high resistant joint. Now […]

If you’d like to post your own thread in the UK Electrical Forum then please click here.