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
Electric Car II · 4 September 05
I’d like to introduce Eve, our next electric car.
It's Red, Fred · 1 September 05
Checked out the Ford Probe EV candidate last night and it looks like an almost perfect car for the job. Body is in good shape, no rust (southern car most of its life), and even the tires are decent.
Paint is bleached out a bit and nicked in a number of places, will need to get it re-painted at some point. Passenger compartment is a little dinged up, but nothing that can’t be cleaned up or patched.
The mice in the trunk aren’t going to be happy when I get rid of their wheel-well housing…
I like the look of the car, sleek, with a lower drag coefficient (0.30) than the old Mazda 626 (0.36). Although I’m sure it’s nothing near the Probe prototype they made in 1983:
Ford’s Probe IV is a state-of-the-art experimental vehicle which boasts a Cd of only 0.15—about the same as an F-15 jet airplane.
Or how about the 1985 Probe V with a Cd of 0.135! Here’s a little more history behind the Probe.
Barring the seller changing his mind, I should take delivery of the new EV by this weekend. Time to start clearing garage space, re-reading a few books and starting the painful task of trying to decide on batteries.
The real test lies in coming up with a good name for it. I just don’t like typing Ford Probe…it doesn’t roll off the fingers easily. It needs a clever name, something catchy, easy to type, that doesn’t remind you of alien abductions.
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Donor Countdown · 31 August 05
We’re heading out this evening to check out an ’89 Ford Probe. Last week I got an email from Ryan (who’s had 7 Ford Probes and is a moderator over at ProbeTalk.com) letting me know that the Probe models from ’89 to ’92 should have the same transmission as that on my Mazda 626.
If that’s the case then I should be able to pop most of the old EV parts into the probe without much modification. Hardest part will be choosing and locating the batteries.
I started checking out batteries, with a brief side trip into Lithiums. Wowsa, it’s not hard at all to drop over $10k on a set of those babies. Any other suggestions?
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All About Eve · 26 August 05
Welcome!
This section of the site is about Eve, our second Electric Car conversion. Started in August of 2005 Eve is being built using a 1990 Ford Probe as the donor. She’s lighter than the previous EV (Mazda 626), more streamlined, and the body is in great shape.
As progress is made on the conversion I’ll be posting articles to the main home page and to this section. To return to this page (if you haven’t bookmarked it) click the link on the right entitled Current EV Project. Or you can click Eve’s picture in the upper right on any page.
On the navigation bar over on the right side you’ll see the heading, Eve’s Conversion followed by a numbered list. Those are links to all of the articles, from start to now, of the steps in Eve’s conversion. You can click through those or use the PREV/NEXT links at the bottom of each page.
Let’s begin at the beginning.