My latest EV project

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galderdi Regular Member Joined: 12/08/2016 Location: Australia Posts: 99	Posted: 11:55pm 05 Dec 2021         zeitfest said   Been watching this for a while... inspiring plus.   Quote   ..the current chassis because it is a known quantity. He has already certified many of these before. So long as I don't alter the chassis it should just need some inspections. Is the chassis design available ? I guess certification is pretty expensive That depends what you mean by available. If you mean can you download it and build it yourself the answer would be no. It is licensed and can only be produced under agreement. Sunshine Coast Sports cars has that agreement here in Australia. They only planned to make 10 chassis and this is the last of the 10. But I wouldn't say it is impossible to convince them to build another. Certification can be very expensive if you are starting with a chassis your engineer has not previously tested. There is a whole raft of tests and facilities required. It would literally cost in excess of $7000 possibly more than $10000. Plus there is every chance it could fail the tests triggering redesign and retesting. Working with a known quantity eliminates all that. Having said that, I am still faced with a long list of requirements and decisions in order to have it registered. For example the dash padding which forced me to deviate from the original Porsche design and move the metal part of the dash forward and include a large padded area. There are many other examples but I won't bore you with them all. They are all in the Main Roads/Australian standards.