You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
Your First Electric Car · 8 June 08
As the price of gas soars so to does the number of folks visiting this web site. Perhaps you searched the web for electric car (EV) information and ended up here? Or maybe you’ve been checking in for years, the idea of a conversion tickling at the back of your brain. However you found us, welcome!
There’s a lot of information on this web site and not all of it is organized with the first time converter in mind. This article is meant to try and help organize the information you need along with providing a few pointers in getting started.
Joe's 280Z EV · 12 January 07
Sitting in my overflowed mail queue from this summer and fall (resend emails if I haven’t answered yet) was a few nice in-progress shots of Joe Porcelli’s 280Z electric conversion.
- Ran across a couple of electric car related articles over at Business Week:
- The first article is about OSCar the Open Source Car project. Checking out the concept page shows that they are shooting for an electric powertrain with wheel-hub motors.
- The other article highlights the California electric car company, Zap!. Given this year’s soaring gas prices it’s not surprising to that their revenue shot up 247% over the year before.
- I get quite a few emails from folks wondering if they can convert their RV to electric and then “charge” it using a generator while they drive, somehow tricking the gas into being more efficient by going through a another stage of energy transfer with a less efficient engine. Here’s a fellow who decided to power his RV using The Fat of America (WVO powered, that is). For those still curious about using gas to power an EV, here’s a couple articles: Gas Powered EV and Free Energy.
- For those interested in enabling their hybrid to spend more time as a pure-electric check out Hymotion’s PHEV. GCC reports that the Fiarfax County Department of Vehicle Services just added a PHEV conversion to their fleet.
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Separated at Birth · 31 May 06
Over the weekend I tore the rest of the fiberglass and odd parts off of Atom and took a few pictures for posterity.
I was cruising the internet the other day and ran across a cool video and pictures of a little sports car. On further consideration, and with my eyes crossed just so, I thought maybe this was what Atom was originally intended to be?
Eve, the video · 15 May 06
It was a weekend of non-stop rain here in New Hampshire, with over three inches falling Saturday and Sunday (southern parts of the state had up to 15”!). Thought about trying to make it to the Tour de Sol but the rainy weather and desire to get some more work done on Eve won over.
I borrowed a camera from work and shot a little (well, 4.8MB) movie of this weekend’s action.
Enjoy!
EVAlbum · 2 May 06
For the past few months (it’s all a blur!) we’ve been spending some free evenings and weekends working on an important EV project. Not making an EV this time, but creating a tool for all of the folks who have made or are thinking of making their own electric car, bike, scooter, boat, lawnmower, tractor, and, hey, maybe even an electric airplane.
It’s the new EVAlbum:
Gas Powered EV · 16 March 06
I get an email from time to time which goes like…
“Why don’t you add a lawnmower/weedwhacker/gas engine to your EV? Wouldn’t that help the range?“
Well, yeah, it might…but it wouldn’t be an EV! And, hey, who said I needed more range? ‘:^)
Still, it’s a common enough question that we ought to talk about it a bit.
But first, an answer to the other emails: NO, I HAVEN’T DIED!
Gas Hog Lincoln · 13 March 06
Time for something a little different.
Lee Hart has been a regular on the EVList, helping folks out with their electric car questions for years. Lee has even shared his design for an EV battery balancer with us.
Lee’s converted a few electric cars but he also does another type of EV conversion: converting songs, poems, and fables to be electric powered.
Today we head back to the 60’s for a little ditty I’m sure y’all remember…