Build Your Own Electric Vehicle

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Go Green-Go Electric! Faster, Cheaper, More Reliable While Saving Energy and the Environment

This new, updated edition of Build Your Own Electric Vehicle contains everything that made the first edition so popular while adding all the technological advances and new parts that are readily available on the market today.

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle gets on the expressway to a green, ecologically sound, cost-effective way that even can look cool, too!

This comprehensive how-to goes through the process of transforming an internal combustion engine vehicle to electric or even building an EV from scratch for as much or even cheaper than purchasing a traditional car. The book describes each component in detail---motor, battery, controller, charger, and chassis---and provides step-by-step instructions on how to put them all together.

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Second Edition, covers: EV vs. Combustible Engine Overview Environmental and Energy Savings EV Evolution since the First Electric Car Current Purchase and Conversion Costs Chassis and Design Today's Best Motors Battery Discharging/Charging Styles Electrical Systems Licensing and Insurance Issues Driving Maintenance Related Clubs and Associations Additional Resources

What Customers Say About Build Your Own Electric Vehicle:

The book covers all essentials. In some parts it is opinionated which does not reduce its value.

Yet they still left a lot of unanswered questions for me.If you're going to convert a vehicle, this book may have some resources for you; it's a small investment relative to the size of your project. Are they really still in business.The authors weren't sure if they were defending an environmental case for electric cars, writing a history of electric cars, highlighting progress in electric cars, creating a how-to manual or teaching electrical engineering.

There is a lot of information in this book. It's just terribly organized.

This book could have been so much more. In these days when corner hardware stores have websites, an amazing number of their resources listed have neither website addresses nor can be found on Google.

These two guys needed an editor or co-author who could/would help them reorganize the stuff thrown together there. They also should have the "." key surgically removed from their keyboard.I wonder if they updated their sources in the back of the book from the first edition.

Pieces of all of those are here. Still, the book should have been a lot better.Barry Gardner

This book is very helpful with information you can use to build your own electric car.

Then I go to another electrical engineers website, a guy who has done several conversions and he says DC motors arc and to only use AC. He says we will start out with AC motors and then launches into electrical engineering speak.

Let me be specific. I'm a pretty easy reviewer, few books I don't like.This one was a waste of time and money.

I want to hear 10%, 20% whatever more.Engines. Where the author could have been less detailed he wasn't where he could have been more detailed he wasn't.I'm doing an EV conversion and I live on a mountain.

I don't want to read you'll need a "little" more horse power if you live in a hilly area. His conversions he writes about are DC motored vehicles.

Also, several of the websites that show completed vehicles that used DC motors shown in his conversions (this book) show top speeds of 50 mph.Some people shouldn't write - or teach.

This is the first up to date book I've found on EVs in years. This revised edition reflects the current economy, state of oil prices and government regulations regarding EVs. Everything you'd need to get started on an EV project or to just educate yourself on the subject.