Undoubtedly, one of the ways you possibly could save money after the initial expense at least, would be to drive an electric car instead of a gas car. It does not take long to search on Google to find how other people have already converted their cars to electric. On the other hand, it’s always nice to have something to do on the side to fill out some time every now and then.
You might be surprised to know that some people probably in your home city actually own an electric car that gets unbelievable gas mileage like you would never think. You also might be surprised to know that gasoline engines are very inefficient. So, not only is gasoline expense of but the engines it goes into does not efficiently produce the power to propel your car either. I just now saw a website that lists various project cars for sale which I have found one of them to be one I will be considering for an electric car.
Small cars are obviously the best to purchase for conversion. The smaller trucks like a Chevy S10 or old Ford Ranger truck would be a good possibility also because of the truck bed. The truck bed offers a great place for all the batteries that you’ll have to mount onto the automobile. It’s interesting that the batteries that you will use will be lead batteries and not some special type of batteries.
Unfortunately, some of the electrical parts can be somewhat cost prohibitive so I will still have to think about if I will go through with this project or not. ever since the gas has been going up fairly quickly, I have had an urge to find more efficient transportation. Anyway, as I said, I found electrical vehicles to be a very good option which I wish were available years ago by automakers. I personally believe that the electricity should be the way to go since motors are so efficient.
Here..Tesla Motors is electric vehicle I would really like to have but not at that cost.
August 25, 2008 at 3:26 am
One big problem costwise with owning a battery-ony electric is that you alse neeed a gas powered car to get to destination out of driivng radius (not range) of the typical electric, which is about 45 miles or less.