/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Glad to see the business end of the tuk finally. Looks like a standard golf cart rear end - should be more reliable than the hub motors.
As I mentioned in the last thread, I do lithium conversions for lots of smaller EVs. Forget about 18650s, too man interconnects to fail, you'll need a tab welder, and that many parralllel connections makes a BMS worthless. On BMSs, they are almost always the point of failure when things go boom. Just get a large ah capacity, dont overdischarge, bulk charge, and manually check cells periodically.
Get a 'cycle analsyt'', a Meanwell HLG series potted/ip67 power supply to charge with, and some 60ah Nissan Leaf cells or HK 20ah multistar lipos, and a $5 cell checker.