Build your own Electric car!

 

Dear Friends,

For the past 15 years our family has been living off the grid with only solar and wind power. We moved to our present location, built our own house and then we set to work to find alternative energy options that we could afford.

You see our family is no different than yours. We are just regular people who just want to make a difference in their lives. We wanted to lower our electricity costs. We wanted to lower our car expenses. It is getting very expensive out there so we figured out a way to beat it.

Today we live 100% Off-Grid and drive Electric Vehicles.

No we don't own those fancy new hybrids. We learned how to convert our cars to run on electricity at a cost we could afford. We figured out how to do it all for hundreds of dollars, not thousands of dollars. We had to.

And in so doing we figured out how to get 100 miles out of a single charge!

I would like to share with you exactly what we discovered and how we get such tremendous mileage from our revolutionary homemade electric car.

Would you like to discover:

• Step-By-Step How To Convert A Car To Electric
• How to Cut Fuel Costs to Nearly Zero
• How To Clean Up The Environment
• How To Get Massive IRS Refunds

Can I tell you a secret? We're not very mechanically inclined. We needed a lot of help with this project. And we made a ton of mistakes. But, in all of those mistakes we learned something we can pass on to you so you don't have to make the same mistakes we did.

You see, this electric vehicle thing is only part of what has been a 15 year process to discover the ultimate way we can reduce expenses for living while still maintaining our present standards. We don't want to live without life's little luxuries, just like you.

In learning how to live off the grid we needed massive numbers of batteries and it was in looking for these batteries... that we stumbled onto the answer.

Our home requires a lot of batteries to store energy from our solar panels and wind generators. It was always so expensive to buy new ones, we needed an alternative. Then...

One summer a few years ago a friend of ours told us about a special kind of battery that we could get used (for free) in nearly dead condition and how he had come up with a way to recondition them to nearly new. He had been doing it for years for his RV that had a large solar array on it.

His Method worked fine if you were only going to recondition one or two batteries but we needed to recondition dozens so we had to figure out a better way to apply his process that would work for us. Using our system you can keep a whole bank of used batteries (like you need for an electric car) in nearly new condition for years.

What was so amazing was that these particular batteries had tremendous capacity. When we hooked them up it seemed like our home was always full of power to use. Where before we had to conserve our energy much more strictly to see us through especially cloudy or windless days.

I wanted to make an improvement to our property so I went to get a bunch more of these batteries. Then it hit me! As I was hauling them home in the bed of our pickup truck I thought: "Why not use these same batteries to convert our car to electric?" And that is just what we did...

Did I mention that I am no mechanic? Nearly flunked out of auto mechanics in high school. I just couldn't get it. But, electricity and batteries is somehow easier for me to understand. And it seems like everybody who has read these plans agrees.

We have done 3 conversions for friends and family so far, and decided to let the plans out to a few of our Off Grid Newsletter subscribers to see what they could do with them. And every one of them found they could do it too.

Now, these batteries are kind of heavy and we had to develop ways of mounting them in our car (and our truck) that would accomodate the weight. We found all sorts of creative ways that the average guy can do this too.

Of course we did get all sorts of people to help us when we started. The local high school shop teacher was interested in our project and offered to help, and our neighbors too... It seemed like there was always somebody here when we were working on them. Why? Because they wanted to do their own conversion and they just didn't believe me when I told them I was doing it myself. Most people just don't think it's possible.

"Well, pound nails to build your house, maybe", they would say. "But, build your own Electric Car? Doubt it."

So they would hang around and learn from watching us that even they could do it. Now they are smiling too, converting their own.

Living Off Grid means you have to be resourceful and it served us well in doing our first EV conversions. We have managed to find sources of nearly free DC motors which literally save thousands of dollars in doing a conversion to electric.

You may have heard that the cost to convert a vehicle is close to $10,000. I guess you could pay that much if you really wanted to. But with our new methods adapted from 15 years of living with renewable energy we will show you how to do an EV conversion for only a few hundred dollars... depending on your resourcefulness.

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Why 2011 Will Be the Year of the Electric Car

 

 

CAFE: In the automotive world, its not your daily fix at the Starbucks drive-through, its an acronym that stands for Corporate Average Fuel Economy — and next year’s new CAFE standard is going to permanently change the cars we drive.

The United States enacted a CAFE standard in response to the OPEC oil embargo of the 70s, slowly raising the average fuel economy of passenger cars in the is country from 18mph in 1978 to 27.5 mph in 1990. After 1990, fuel got cheap, (in fact, adjusted for inflation, 1998 saw the lowest average price for a barrel of crude in the post-War era)  and so 27.5 mph is still the average fuel economy of passenger cars sold today, in 2010.

The $150 a barrel peak in the summer of 2008 shook us out of our complacency, however, and the CAFE idea was dusted off, and put back in play with a vengeance. Next year, the CAFE rises from 27.5 mph to 30.2 mph. In other words, the average mileage of all the cars sold next year by each manufacturer will have to rise almost ten percent.

What’s that mean when the rubber hits the road? Three things: Electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid.

If you think the profusion of electric car that are newly here or just about to arrive — the Nissan Leaf, the Chevy Volt, the plug-in Prius, the Tesla — not to mention surprise electrification announcements from newly converted like BMW and Mercedes — is part of some global green zeitgeist, think again.

There’s lots of gas saving technologies out there: displacement-on-demand, dual-clutch transmissions, diesel-ification, carbon-fiber-fication, to name but a few. But the real big gains in average fuel economy over a whole line of vehicles — 10% gains — will most easily come if a good portion of those vehicles are 50 mph or higher. And the fastest way to get there, is via electrification. The real questionis — will consumers buy?

Nissan LEAF -World’s first affordable electric car will be manufactured in Sunderland UK

 

 

Nissan LEAF -world’s first affordable, mass produced zero emission car will be manufactured at its plant in Sunderland, UK. Production of Nissan LEAF will begin in Oppama, Japan later this year followed by Smyrna, Tennessee, USA in 2012. Sunderland will come on-line in early 2013 with an initial annual production capacity of about 50,000 units. The three production sites will support the sales launch of the model, which begins in late 2010 in Japan, the United States and selected European markets, ahead of global mass marketing from 2012.

Wake Up - There's a New Electric Car Revolution

February 2010 May began in history as the month the new electric car revolution.

The revolution has begun quite appropriate, in Japan in the Far East with a joint venture with the forces of giants Nissan and Renault, the car manufacturers, are in the All Japan Ryokan Association (ajrae), promotion, and d 'installing in their electric car Verladeeinrichtungen 18,000 hotels.

Take a moment of reflection here, and this trend, Nissan and Renault are now told that now have an agreement on the electric car electric car and signatories to recharge devices in 18,000 hotels in Japan alone.

The ajrae also jointly developing packages in their Member Hotels and raising the profile of the transportation environment, with links to accommodations and travel with selected promotions and events test which is a major step forward in a country.

This system could be replicated in the hotel industry to meet all their guests have to travel from one place to another within their group to availability, the promotion and support of aid 'local tourism industry while at all times, the cause of environmentally friendly public transport in advance, without damage to the environment.

All relevant organizations should be involved in the situation, their own channel aired collection facilities, and these sites were integrated into the local and national maps, additional aid.

To date, the company with Nissan-Renault is the only advertising, but without a doubt, the parties were also moving forward with others.

If this movement should be expanded throughout the world, could be a turning point for the industry of electric cars and the total credit must be paid for Renault-Nissan, there are infinite possibilities in the world for similar partnerships.

A future scenario could be that the supermarket giants of our own fleet of environmentally friendly vehicles for local deliveries from their own drivers, or even non-car owners from engaging in short-term rent in supermarkets, in all cases, there are opportunities for advertising revenues have with vehicles constantly on the Street to be acquired.

With the spread of a large number of vehicles environmentally friendly country, it is also possible, it could lead to changes in legislation for transport in the city.

In the current Park & Ride-city circuit of the city could be changed to those drivers who need to park an urgent access to the vehicles of the city / downtown their cars, their journey in electric vehicles. The result of most people with environmentally friendly public transport downtown areas would minimize a massive reduction in the number of urban traffic and a much-improved atmosphere with carbon dioxide emissions.

To celebrate their victory, I'm going to wait execs Nissan and Renault, the glasses for free on their cars!