We all see it. Gas prices have been rising steadily and are supposed to top $7 per gallon next year. That's why we decided to build a homemade electric car. It was an easy decision because every time we got into our car we were looking at the gas gauge and dreading how much money it would cost us to fill up.
In fact, learning how to build a homemade electric car isn't as difficult as you think. With a good set of plans and a little DIY skills you can have your car converted to electric in not time. Imagine a savings of over 80% on your gas bill every month. That's what I've got. I used to pay over $150 per month on gas, but now I'm lucky if I spend more than $30 to charge my car for an entire month.
Follow our 4 step plan to build your homemade electric car
If you're deciding to build an electric car this is where you need to start. It's important that the steps are followed in order so you don't miss anything. Just click the link to the left to find a preliminary parts list. It also tells you what types of tools you'll need and just some general electric car conversions terms and advice.
In order to power you electric car you'll need some batteries. The plans actually show you how to find free sources of batteries. In addition to batteries you'll need to learn a little technical stuff like how to wire you batteries to the motor and charge controller.
In this article you'll learn exactly what kind of motors you need to build your own electric car. There are several options available, and we tell you what size you will need as well as where to find them for low cost. After all, your electric car conversion is going nowhere unless you have a motor.
Ok, now you know the basics for your electric car conversion. It's now time to use the information that the dedicated staff at convert2ev has put together. These plans are the very best, least expensive plans I've found to do an electric car conversion. Over at the left you can see Tom Hanks in the picture with his new electric car.
Why do an Electric Car Conversion anyways?
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Watch this video of one of our favorite actors in his now famous electric car...
Tom Hanks- on guilt free cruising in his electric car.
or this is Tom on the David Letterman show talking about Electric car conversions, hybrids and our future.
The 3 best reasons
Why you should begin with your own
Electric Car Conversions
Why would you choose to do an electric car conversion instead of buying one? Or even buying a hybrid car, or what about the hydrogen car, the so called car that runs on water? It doesn't matter if you live in Canada, the United States, Israel, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, England, or any other country on Earth, this just works.
Reason #1 – More Power Output per Dollar Invested !
Over the past 10 years our family has explored every renewable energy option available to run a vehicle and after extensive research we have concluded that learning how to do electric car conversion offers the most promise for the future. We have done the water car conversion (it doesn’t provide near the output we were promised) and it isn’t nearly as easy as learning how to build an electric car.
The output of power from a hydrogen generator in the water car application is dismal. It would, in fact take thousands of gallons of water to run your car for even one day! Compare that preposterous idea with an electric car and this option wins hands down.
That one comparison is a huge factor in our decision to promote the building of electric cars instead of hydrogen generators, as some do. We have tried both and know that the fastest way to get set up with renewable energy for your car is with electric. Nearly any vehicle can be converted.
Reason #2 Save Thousands of Dollars!
When we first started out looking at the options to produce renewable energy for our car we started shopping for hybrid electric vehicles. Yes, we thought we would just entertain the option of purchasing our own hybrid car. But, wo the prices! They were outrageous, the least expensive package we could find was in the area of $40,000 and we just couldn’t see ourselves spending that kind of cash.
For this family that was a lot of money, we decided to find out if it was possible to do our own electric car conversion. After about 10 years of research we can finally answer that it is definitely possible for the average family to build an electric car of their own and save thousands of dollars.
Definitely this is a better option for us, it turned into a real family project and we had a lot of fun too.
Reason #3 Electric Cars are Visually Appealing!
A well built, well planned electric car conversion looks great rolling down the highway. I have personally never seen a water fuelled car that looked half as good as any homemade electric car we have built, or any of the hundreds of families who have used these plans either.
When I sit at the stoplight, the car not making a sound, or using any energy, and I look around at all those smog producing gas vehicles just spitting out fumes it makes me smile. We did a good job, and the acceleration… nobody will ever take you off the line in town with an electric car, not even the fastest motorcycle!
Those are 3 pretty good reasons to do your own electric car conversions with our electric car plans, you will no doubt find even more reasons as you build your own.
