With the talk about all electric cars and hybrid cars, have you been thinking about your own home built electric car?
I am sure that if you are like me you at least dreamed about such an animal sitting in your garage. It does however, seem like those “things”, electric powered vehicles, are about the ugliest, smallest, most inconvenient, looking car a guy or gal could be caught in. To say that, all electric cars, are in this category though, would also be an inaccurate statement. Certainly, electric car manufacturers, have a thought on this, and could change the looks of their electric powered vehicles to something that we could all be proud to own. I am sure they will in the next few years.
Then there is the price to consider on these new cars. For most of us, they are priced way out of our range. The $35,000 to $50,000 ones are just to much, especially in these times. There are a few coming down below that now, around $15,000.
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Interested in owning an electric car? Join the crowd. The problem is that very few people can afford to buy the electric cars that are for sale. We’re still a few years away from mass produced electric vehicles. As a result, a lot of folks are wondering how to build an electric car. You can do it from scratch, or you can simply convert your gas-guzzler into an electric vehicle.
A conversion like this involves removing the entire engine and replacing it with a battery and electric engine. It takes a bit of time and effort, but the result is your very own electric car that you built yourself! Just think–you won’t have to stop for gas anymore. Plus you’ll now be eligible for all kinds of federal and state rebates for driving an alternative-fueled vehicle.
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Battery Electric Vehicles or BEVs, predated the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles. It was between 1832-1839 that Robert Anderson, a Scottish businessman, invented the first electric carriage and Professor Sibrandus Stratingh from the Netherlands designed the first small-scale electric car which was built by his assistant Christopher Becker in 1835.
The storage battery improved, firstly by Gaston Planté, a French physicist who invented the lead acid cell in 1859 and the first rechargeable battery. Then, in 1881, Camille Faure developed a more efficient and reliable battery which became so successful in the early electric cars. This discovery caused battery electric vehicles to flourish, with France and Great Britain being the first nations to support widespread development of electric vehicles.
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