Converting to an Electric Vehicle

Are you ready to... Save Money On Your Fuel Bills Build Your Own Electric Car Or Truck By Les and Jane Oke ©Les and Jane Oke- 20 ...

Legal stuff our lawyers made us say. Let’s get this out of the way first, so we can get to the good stuff... No Part of this doc ...

This book is intended to be easy to read and easy to navigate. Our purpose is to provide you with the very best guidance setting ...

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Table of Contents Preface – What will you need to get started and how will you begin. Chapter One – Finding a vehicle to convert ...

Chapter Six -Getting started with your conversion. Let’s take off the exhaust and the fuel system. Let’s carefully take out that ...

Our Mission- Your Purpose And A bit of History... Our mission is very simple- we will show you how to build your own electric ca ...

The Building Begins This is not an original idea, to build an electric car; the idea has existed for many years. This is, howeve ...

Build Your Own Electric Car Challenge Here at our off grid home we are always looking for new and better ways to use renewable e ...

Parts List To Get Started You will need a minimum amount of tools at the very least, a small work space area (we used a 10 foot ...

Parts List Motor – AC or DC Motor Controller Manual disconnect Motor adaptor Main contactor Inertia switch Charger Battery ends ...

Before we get started let’s answer some frequently asked questions to set your mind at ease about this project. Q: Why Convert y ...

Dependence on Foreign Oil. For most of us we are not personally connected with the oil industry, but in the back of our heads is ...

Let’s get started You might have noticed that some of the equipment used to do the electric car conversion are not normally foun ...

We have also bought high quality tools at auctions and yard sales. You never know when you will find something at these fun sale ...

A lot of the work is grinding and fitting of metal and there are always flying particles of metal so you might consider doing mo ...

At some point you will need to either weld or get some welding done. We were fortunate enough to have an interested high school ...

Finding Batteries for Your Electric Car I mentioned expenses earlier, and one of the more expensive items can be your batteries. ...

Finding Free Batteries Free is where you find it - Most of the time the goods and materials you need can be found with a little ...

So I asked for the old batteries from the golf carts. Mike, the owner of the golf course said that he had to pay to have the old ...