On rails

I found a whole evening to spend on this project, and used it and most of a bottle or Argon to weld up the front battery support rail. Aluminium welding skills are slowly improving but it's not exactly beautiful, so no close ups! 

And here it is installed in the car, ready for the battery boxes to be bolted in.

A long wait

Too long a wait, but I finally got back into the metal workshop today and made the first of two battery packs for the front of the car, and the supporting structure that will bolt on to existing bearing points in the car.

The design of these required a bit of head scratching as the packs have to be easily removable, miss all the bits that can move such as the steering linkage, and fit under the bonnet. And it's all got to be aluminium... just because.

So, instead of a battery box (there just wasn't room) the cells support themselves and are clamped between end plates which are welded to box section beams, which in turn bolt down to the support rails in the engine bay. Seems to fit OK, more pics next time!