Yep, have it covered with both a 8 1/2" and 9 1/4" pulley for both 6/1 and 8/1.  Long term will probably automate the start / stop with a micro controller and monitor speed and temperature. I think BruceM did something similar to his. Too much on my plate at the moment, trying to get a barn concreted with PEX in the floor, designing and building a tilting pole structure for two solar arrays with 12 panels each, getting power trenched in back from the main road and clearing trees for a house maybe next year. Gets harder to do every year as I get older and I'm over 60 now.  This Lister project is more of a fun project than work with a future purpose to me. 

After running out of Argon and getting a new bottle I finished up the engine mount while fighting the wind blowing my shield gas. Removed the Generator dog house and will pull wires up into a control box with the exception of the bridge rectifier. The control box will have a contactor, breaker and voltage monitor relay along with Current, volts, Hertz, and hour meter. The voltage monitor relay will pick up the contactor when the generator voltage is within a good range (probably 210-250 volts) and drop out outside of this range. This is to drop out the generator on a shut down with a load to save the charge on the field. Bottom of the box will have a 30 amp twist lock plug to plug my 8 gauge SO cord in to the barn.

You have a beautiful engine shed butch, love the rough sawn lumber. I missed an opportunity to buy a variable speed carriage belt driven mill a few years ago to belt up to my rumely. I have 17 acres of woods and a saw is on my wish list so I can do a proper engine shed.

Probably cheaper and more reliable to charge by a lister then the grid now in some parts of the world.

I ordered a couple complete injectors from India about a month ago and they showed up about three weeks after the order. I don’t think they are targeting listed parts yet, may be supply issues at the India end.

That's the battery side of the equation, let's look at the power side. I work in the electric power industry and have read many stats about the requirements for charging.

For example, we know that California has mandated all cars sold by 2035 to be electric and 35% be electric by 2026. They currently have about 80,000 chargers but need another 1.2 million chargers to accommodate all of those cars just by 2030, let alone 2035. Estimates that the state will require an additional 300,000 gigawatt hours of power to accommodate these vehicles. To put that in perspective, a typical Nuke plant generates between 1-2 Gigawatts. I'm sure some of these numbers are inflated but looking at the state of the California power grid, you have to ask yourself if this is a wise move. Will they need more solar, wind, gas or nuke plants to support this? God forbid coal plants for the Green folks. Side note about coal, I spoke with a contractor that has torn down several coal plants in the area. He told me that they almost always get sold to the Chinese, the whole plant except the scrubbers. Yes, we have to comply with clean air but the Chinese reinstall our plants without the scrubbers.

I installed six electric vehicle chargers in our city about 10 years ago with a state and DOE grant. They've worked great and it was to more or less promoting downtown shopping (unless a drunk college kids destroys one). Guess what, they now get used by the daily commuter working downtown or living nearby and chargers for free (we give the electric away on these). Our grid can handle more chargers to a point into the future. But fast forward say 20 years from now if everything was electric and all of the old houses that have a 60 amp or 100 amp service. No way can those homes handle a fast charger to recharge to full capacity overnight. Now think about the transformers in the neighborhoods, all undersized. The primary conductors into those neighborhoods and the wire size into the homes. The substation transformers and equipment will all need to be upsized which we are doing now for some other large customers and a large solar field going in nearby at a tremendous cost that will get passed on to the consumer. Then throw in a couple cold snaps like we just had where the electric grid was strained for heating or something really stupid like a solar flare that destroys half of the grid then we'll all be Amish for a few years. So I think looking at the big picture of electric there is many problems facing it and we just can't flip a switch and ditch fossil fuel.

Sorry for the Monday morning Rant... I haven't had my coffee yet.

And not making this political, but the infrastructure bill signed in Nov. of 2021 will require all new cars as of 2026 to have a remote kill switch.