First, what do you need to begin?

·        Simple tools found in any household workshop- saws, drills, wrenches etc.

·        A place to work- shop, garage, barn or even outside is fine

·        Detailed electric car plans

Before you get started you will need a vehicle to do the conversion with. I say conversion because any vehicle will work for this project, but some are better than others. Gas or diesel doesn’t matter as you will be removing the engine anyways, and everything related to fuel and exhaust.

Your new electric car will produce no fumes either. We think that’s great.

You will need a vehicle with a standard transmission though. Automatic transmissions just don’t work with electric motors for cars.

Don’t worry; you won’t have to learn how to drive a standard though if you don’t know how. Your electric car will drive just like an automatic. Just put it in gear and drive. It’s that easy, no shifting in town at all.

When you pull up to the stop light for instance the electric motor just stops. It’s all explained in detail in the electric car plans.

Your new electric car will have great acceleration too. We were amazed at how fast it was off the line in town.

Your electric car will be able to go 50 mph and have an effective range up to 200 miles on a single charge depending on your choice of vehicles and your driving habits.

We kind of lean towards using small trucks now that we have done 3 conversions ourselves. Small trucks like the older Toyota Tacoma (around 1995 or so) offer a lot of room for battery placement. They are light and strong too, a perfect combination for this project.

Small cars work well too, but offer fewer options for battery placement.

Our best range vehicle is actually our Toyota Corolla, well over 200 miles between charges.

This is not a difficult project either although you will need a helper at times. Those extra hands when you are attaching the DC motor are needed.

How much does it cost?

You can build your own electric car for only a few hundred dollars (including the cost of the detailed plans). If you use the sources of free batteries and free DC motors found in the electric car plans you can keep the cost down to a very reasonable level.

Imagine the first time you drive by a gas station while others are filling up. Did you know that gas is expected to reach $7 per gallon next year?

Isn’t it time you did your own electric car conversion? Let’s get started.

Electric Car Plans is the best place to start to do your own conversion and stop paying outrageous gas prices at the pumps; it really isn’t that difficult and makes a great family project with detailed electric car plans.

To learn more visit this site and click on the link CONVERT2EV.

Not including the reduction in operating cost since you no longer have to purchase gas, you will be rewarded with a smoother ride, less overall upkeep, a quieter engine, a cleaner running vehicle and some huge tax incentives.

Electric Car Conversion Kit

There is a cost for all the advantages, usually around $4000, dependent on how much of the work you can perform, and how much you must have done by professionals.

It will not be difficult to find a donor vehicle to convert The most obvious choice is a small truck or SUV, as they have more cargo space to house the batteries.

If you are thinking that it is going to be beyond your ability to manage this project,and even if you are mechanically disinclined, you will still be able to convert any car to electric with the help of a detailed plan. Detailed plans can be found at your local library, online, and in some of the better electric car conversion forums. With the wealth of bad information floating around the internet these days, if you manage to get your hands on a good manual for electric car kits, consider yourself lucky!

It is true that this project will cost you a few dollars, but you will find the investment worth it. The median cost of the electric car conversion kit is roughly the equivilent of two months worth of gasoline for a commuter.Should you decide to do the smart thing, the list of advantages is long indeed. Lower maintenance cost, huge tax incentives, reduction of your carbon footprint, and reduced CO2 Emissions.

Now if you are thinking that the price is too high, and that you will not be able to afford it, please consider all the advantages I have mentioned!

The solution? You can easily change your car into electric car – We call it Electric Car Conversion. Do not be intimidated by the techical aspects of this project, you can easily manage using an electric car conversion kit.

I have already mentioned the vehicle, now you will need a space to work in. A garage or covered driveway is recommended for protection from the elements and you must also have ready access to your tools.

If you can keep yourself focused, and break the larger parts of the task down into smaller parts, it really is quite manageable.

Stop worrying about it being too difficult, if you can follow simple step-by-step instructions, then you will have no issues with an electric car conversion kit.

You will find that there is no need to be a mechanic or engineer to convert any car to electric, as you can find many articles on electric car conversion kits on the internet.

Maintenance cost are also reduced after your conversion, along with a drastic drop in the cost per mile that your car travels.

Reducing your greenhouse gas emissions, along with saving yourself a good deal of money by being immune to the rising cost of gasoline are just a few of the advantages.

So, now that you have decided to do your own electric car conversion kit, you have some choices to make. You can either install an AC motor, or a DC motor. I have done both and the AC motor wins hands down.There is only one small disadvantage to using it, and that is far outweighed by its advantages. Most models of alternating current motors are much lighter for the power output levels, they come with controllers, and they are equipped with regenerative braking.

The per unit cost is a little bit higher for alternating current motors, but it is because of these advantages.

What do you need to get started?

Plans (detailed) for an electric car conversion kit.

A workspace- garage, shop or some similar place, or even your driveway.

Common tools available in most homes.

Most importantly, a reliable helper for the heavy lifting.

You will first need a donor vehicle; a list of the best cars and trucks to use is available in the plans. Proven through three conversions, small trucks and sport utility vehicles are the best.An older model Datsun truck was used for our last conversion, and it worked out very well.The small trucks are very light, and there is ample room to place the batteries in the frame, or should you desire, a box in the bed of the truck.All of the gasoline engine and exhaust parts must be removed from the donor vehicle, once you have decided on one. It will not really take long, and you have the option of purchasing a car without the engine at some wrecking yards.You will save a lot of time and quite a bit of expense that way.

This is where you will start using your electric car conversion kit. The alternating current motor is attached directly to the transmission with a simple adapter kit.The battery placement is probably the most difficult part of the project and the detailed plans show you many options available.There must be a balance between the carrying capacity of your vehicle, and the weight of your batteries.More batteries means longer range between charges but also reduces room for passengers or cargo. The choice is yours depending on your driving habits.

When your electric car conversion kit is done, and you take your first drive right past the gas station, I doubt you will be able to stop smiling.With a range of over 200 miles, and capable of reaching freeway speeds, your electric car drives just like any other vehicle on the road, except there is never a need to fill it up with gas.

Think about it for a moment, isn’t it time you did something about this situation for you and your family? Let’s get started!

There are four steps you must follow for your electric car conversion kit:

Electric Car Conversion Kit Information

3.Follow the plans and buy the parts and tools which you’ll need. This part of the Electric Car conversion is the easiest in my opinion. The parts and tools can be bought in every store actually. There’s nothing special needed. You’ll need drills and wrenches and some other tools which you probably already own anyway.

4.Build it! Follow the plans and you will be fine. I did my first electric car conversion kit in less than two weeks. There really is nothing complicated about it.

Get started today! You have nothing to gain by waiting.

If you want to build your own electric truck, you will be needed with the plans of how to build an electric truck. It is not so difficult to build your electric truck. Convert a simple truck to an electric truck is so easy. For the conversion of your truck you have to follow the simple steps given below:

1. For conversion you need a place like a shop or garage.

2. You have to need some tools like wrenches, cordless drill machine, saws etc.

3. Find a well quality small truck which will be used for conversion.

4. Then get the detail plan to convert the truck.

Using a small truck for conversion is helpful for the electric truck because, for an electric truck you need less weighted and strong small truck. These trucks are different from small cars. These trucks have so many spaces for battery placement.

If you can use many batteries in a small truck, then your truck will go more distance with a single charge of the batteries. I have converted a small truck of Toyota Company recently and it works well.

To start to build your own electric truck you will have to use a standard transmission truck, because automatic transmission truck has a problem with electric motors. Automatic transmission truck does not work with electric motors. If you can only drive an automatic, no need to worry about that. Your electric truck will work like an automatic.

The accelerating ability takes some getting used to as there won’t be a vehicle in town that will take you off the line at stop lights. This is no slow golf cart you will be building here. Your electric truck will run at 50 mph that is similar with other type of trucks. Your truck will be a range of 200 miles. So you can use it for long distance.

There are two main parts in an electric truck. One is a DC motor another batteries. You have to choose a large (11 inch or more) DC motor for your electric truck. This will allow you to carry more weight to more distance.

You also have to collect (20 or more) deep cycle batteries for your electric truck. This will help you to go long range driving. You can collect the DC motor and the batteries for free from outlined sources. This will help you to save money from buying those equipments. That makes the conversion worthy.

For your current vehicle you need a lot of money to repair and for fuel. But you need no fuel for your electric vehicle and the repair cost is so low. You can even convert your existing vehicle as electric by the money which you use to repair your existing vehicle.

You will be known that next year the gas will increase unto $7 per gallon. So this is the time to do your own conversion. You can do your own electric truck conversion and Electric Truck Conversion is the best place to begin to do your own conversion and start saving money and the environment.

Could there be any possible upside to global recession and market declines to rival the Great Depression? Believe it or not, the answer is yes… General Electric gives answer as to why.

Though it seems hard to believe at times, there are positive aspects to a crisis. Just as nature renews itself through a cycle of death and rebirth, markets have to renew themselves too.

A classic example of renewal in nature is the routine forest fire. Over time, brush and debris build up on the forest floor. Meanwhile, old growth trees dominate the landscape. When fire comes, the brush and debris burn up like a fuel – as do the trees that have weakened or died over the years.

Then, after the fire burns itself out, the forest begins the cycle anew. The debris and dead wood of the past cycle have been naturally cleared, making room for new growth. The forest grows back in a healthier state than before.

Those of us in the western U.S. are painfully aware of how man has botched this natural cycle. Through a constant pattern of suppressing small fires, hapless forest managers created the conditions in which BIG fires occur.

When debris and dead wood are burned out every few years – as happens with nature’s way – the fuel build-up never reaches catastrophic levels. But when a forest area is allowed to accumulate layer after layer of dry fuel, turned into a tinderbox through many years of overzealous fire suppression, a single spark can touch off an inferno.

At a cost of untold billions in rampant fire destruction, forest managers seem to have learned the hard lessons. But the movers and shakers of global monetary policy have not. Refusing to allow for a downturn – suppressing it at all costs with easy money – is the economic equivalent of overzealous fire suppression. Let the “debris” of bad behavior, bad ideas and bull market hubris build up for too long, and what you get is a tinderbox.

Through poor stewardship of resources, a constant feeding of dry tinder and an utter disregard for risk, we created the conditions that now feed this inferno. Not just one man did this, but many men… Alan Greenspan not least among them, plus a virtual conga line of successors and enablers that followed.

Fire Still Works

So the bad news is, we’ve got our inferno. The fires are raging now. What else can you call it when the S&P is down more than 60% (!) from inflation-adjusted highs and the World Bank  predicts a shrinking of the global economy this year for the first time since World War II.

The good news is that fire still works as a cleansing element.

A number of gross excesses, bad ideas and flat-out rotten Wall Street practices, born of a long and cushy bull market run, are turning to ash now, hopefully never to return. This is the good that comes of all this pain. So when you look around and wonder whether the incredible wealth destruction was worth it, for the most part the answer is “no” – no one really needed this. But in at least some respects the answer is yes.

That old market stalwart, General Electric  (GE:NYSE), is a clear example of the cleansing process at work.

In keeping with our fire analogy, GE has been burnt to a cinder. The mighty colossus that once went head to head with Exxon (XOM:NYSE) for the title of “world’s largest company” now sports a market cap on par with Apple Computer .”

As a business, General Electric has a bit of a split personality. One side builds things, invents things and repairs things. The other side engages in mysterious acts of financial engineering. The troubles now are not to be found in the jet engine or light bulb side of the business. They are in GE Capital  , the mysterious financial entity with disclosures so complex that analysts never truly understood it from day one.

Much as a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat, for many years GE Capital was the black box from which the company pulled out perfectly managed earnings. Quarter after quarter, General Electric would beat estimates by a penny or two – just like clockwork.

Jack Welch, the current CEO’s legendary predecessor, pulled off this smoothing trick by moving things around on the GE Capital side with an eye for gaming the quarter. Assets would be sold or shuffled around to get the numbers just right.

Now that the world has met Bernie Madoff we’re all a little more distrustful of perfectly smooth trends. But back in the halcyon days of the late 20th century bull market, managed earnings were seen as a good thing, not a bad thing.

The Wall Street analysts covering GE may not have been geniuses, but they certainly weren’t idiots. They knew there was a fair amount of hocus-pocus going on… and they knew GE Capital’s disclosures were too complex to be reasonably understood. But Wall Street loved the reliability of that penny or two beat, quarter after quarter, which is why Jack Welch did it. And he was feted as a hero for it.

Some Habits Just Have to Die

Let’s not put any gloss on it: The whole concept of “managed earnings” is dumb.

In the real world, things move around. Earnings go up and earnings go down. Apart from businesses that rely exclusively on locked-in contracts with minimal fluctuation in labor costs and material inputs, hardly any business makes the same amount of profit every single quarter. The idea that a company could hit its estimated target bang on the nose every single quarter, without fail, is silly too. The real world is unpredictable. The real world is lumpy.

But investors like preternatural stability – or at least they thought they did, pre-Madoff – and so they happily accepted the managed earnings process that Welch pioneered. They smiled and nodded and happily ignored the fact that fully half of General Electric’s earnings came from a strangely high-handed entity (GE Capital) that no analyst understood.

These are the kind of bad habits and bull market indulgences we can say goodbye to as a result of the current crisis.

Old habits die hard – sometimes too hard – and it can often take a massive, wrenching dislocation to remove them. (Some refer to this as “the moment of forced awareness.” One bumper sticker I like reads, “Avoid painful forced awareness: accept reality now.”)

Now that General Electric has been laid low and forced to ponder the very real risk of its own demise, it is unlikely that the bad old ways of GE Capital will return. And now that investors have taken a collective frying pan to the face as payback for their artificial smoothness addiction, it is unlikely that black boxes will be playing a large role in the post-crisis markets to come.

Reason to Take Hope

All in all, the humbling of General Electric gives us reason to take hope. As mentioned, the jet engine and light bulb side of the business – the bringing good things to life side – will probably survive, and perhaps down the road even thrive once again.

And so when the question arises, “What good has come of this crisis,” we can at least point out that the likes of managed earnings, black boxes, and off-balance-sheet shenanigans are set to go the way of the dodo. The absence of such things will make for a sounder economy and a better investing future.

And we can further point out that, as stubborn and foolish as investors can be on a collective basis, if you hit them hard enough over the head they can still learn something. In rooting out and burning up the entrenched bad habits of yesteryear, the odds are improved for a better tomorrow.

This represents the “silver lining” side of things. Next we’ll take a closer look at the AIG mess and plunge into the dark cloud.

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So what’s so great about building an electric car? By far the best benefit is you will no longer have to pay for expensive gasoline! Some other good benefits are: A quieter Engine and you will help the environment (No More Pollution from your vehicle).

How Do I get Started?

You Will Need A Step-By-Step Guide on Build your own electric car

A friend to give you an extra hand

A place to do the work (Garage, Shed, Driveway)

Some Basic Tools- cordless drill, saws, wrenches, maybe a socket set…

In order to start, you will need a vehicle. The best vehicle to convert to electric is Small Cars. One of the main problems is that batteries take a good amount of space up, but a good detailed conversion guide will show you how to avoid this problem.

All the parts needed are actually quite simple to find.  After one week of work, my car was complete and  is now fully electric car!

One of my favorite memories with my electric car was driving by my local gas station and laughing at the 4.00 dollar a gallon price. You might not know this, but gas prices are expected to be around 7.00 dollars a gallon by the end of next year. Don’t you think it would be smart to convert your car to electric?

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With the global economy going in a downward spiral it’s not a bad thing to look into.So what things do I need to make an electric car?· A descent workspace e.g. Garage, workshop, even outside is good. ·A good step by step electric car plan or manual on how to build an electric car · Handyman Tools – Drills, Wrenches, grinder, etc…· A friend to give you a helping hand.

A good mate can help you with all the tricky bits of holding things in place and helping you install the other parts that can be difficult on your own.Now there is two ways you can convert your car on run on electricity.

Firstly you can do the complete overhaul and take out the petrol engine drive system and replace it with a DC motor and parts but that can take weeks to do and its a very tedious operation to perform.

Secondly you can keep your current engine and install an electric system that can run along with it making it a duel powered gas and electric hybrid.

This can offer several benefits to the driver especially when you run out of gas there is no need to refuel as you can simply switch to the alternate system of electricity and make it to your destination.

Imagine the feeling to drive past the gas station knowing you no longer need to do any emergency refuelling

.Switching to electricity will make your car eco-friendly and even provide a better driving experience with it being quiet.

Also with electric powered car you can enjoy the same speeds of a petrol based car and not lose any power at all.

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