The electric car conversion is the worlds best kept secret! You can buy them already done, or you can do it yourself. (This is my favorite part! You can find someone who's done a conversion you like, and then just buy it).I don't know about you, but I'm not going to convert an ICE-machine into an electric-powered rocket in my spare time. I think I mentioned before that my mechanical aptitude is measured in negative numbers. However, this is what I've found: There are people out there who actually LIKE doing this sort of thing and are willing to sell them to you when they're done! I'm thinking, let's leave the sweating and grease to them and just pony up the money instead.
This can be a good thing...or a bad thing. The nice part about a one-of-a-kind, homemade electric car conversion is that nobody else has one just like it. It's the difference between buying that Oleg Cassini off the rack and having Oleg design it for you. I mean, if you could afford it, why wouldn't you? Well, one drawback to having a one-of-a-kind car is trying to find parts for it later. If the parts have to be custom built because your car is a prototype or they quit making it, or whatever you might find yourself with an orphan car sometime down the road. However the electric parts are less likely to need replacing than the other parts, like brakes and tires and headlights and such.
So if you convert a Chevy S-10 or a Ford F-150, a Forerunner or an Echo or a Legacy, you don't really have an orphan, do you? You can take it into any tire or brake shop and get the ordinary things replaced. The parts are cheap, because there are dozens of them out on the road.
The electric parts that will probably need replacing down the road are batteries, and one battery can certainly be interchanged with another as long as the dimensions are the same. Motors and controllers for your electric car conversion can be purchased from companies that have been around for a long time and will continue to be around for a long time. The net result is that your car might be one of a kind but it's not really "orphanable" in the same way a production car from a dead company might be.
You can get tires, brakes, windshields, side-mirrors, et cetera at the local auto parts store, or auto glass store, or whatever. The point is that an S-10 is still an S-10, even if you don't have to put gas in it anymore. But don't be descouraged because you can build an electric car out of almost any smaller vehicle. Smaller vehicles definitely work best with electric car conversions because the electric car motor is not super powerful so it's able to move your car better if it is not too big. Give it a try today! All you need to do is download the electric car conversion guide and get started on your project! The guide will show you everything you need to know about doing the job yourself in your own garage.
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