🎯 Goals

Okay so we all know why most people are here… in the UK a limit of 28mph is not a legal requirement, and severely limits the application of the Ami in sub-urban and rural settings.

The goal of modding the powertrain is to bring the limit up to something closer to 45mph. This helps keep up with flowing traffic on longer stretches of road outside of extremely congested cities.

Why not faster?

You probably could push well beyond 45mph. But would you want to? Remember the Ami isn’t a car, and doesn’t have ABS, airbags, crumple zones, etc. So in this author’s mind there is such a thing as going too fast in this thing. Of course if you have a death wish and want to (as some have suggested) bolt a Hyabusa engine in and have at it, be my guest. But the goal of this project is to add sensible amounts of top end speed and acceleration.

🕵️ What we know

Motor

The motor and inverter are both made by Valeo. They had a demo car on show in Vegas. Here’s the video

So from this we understand a few things.

1. This is a stock Ami in terms of hardware. Meaning the motor in the Ami is not actually 8hp, but more like 15hp. This is important - as it means practically speaking what we’re looking to achieve is completely possible, and within the operating limits of the base hardware. (Nice).
2. It’s the inverter that handles the limiting.
3. Apparently, this won’t be something that’s offered to the public as standard (Not nice).

Battery

The battery appears to be an E4V. Specifically from their 48V range (part number E4V-120-48).

From this document, it appears that larger capacity batteries are available up to 14.4 kWh.

🤔 Unconfirmed: Some sources online claim that this battery includes it’s own 240V input connector, meaning it has a built in charge controller. This requires confirmation.

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