Our old car is starting to get to the point where we have to put $300 a year into the motor and that seems like a good time to change the whole drive system!
My truck only has ~105K, but previous owners were quite rough on it. I figured I'd yank the engine and sell it while it still runs good.
But looking around it seems expensive to convert.
Depends what you are looking at. CyberEye has done quite a bit of research, and from the little I've done it seems you can buy a pretty complete kit, and add batteries, for about $8,000. The kits I'm looking at only require about 40 hours labor for a half competant person to do their own conversion. I consider myself half competant :lol:
The thing to look at is cost of maintenance. Bateries need to be changed about every 4 years on an EV, and that's it. Cars need oil changes, parts break down and need replaced. There are just so damn many points of failure on an internal compustion engine it isn't funny. Electricty is cheaper than gas, but less than I expected.
Anyway, I've just joined the local EV club and I'm looking forward to seeing other peoples conversions. There is probably an EV club down in your neck of the woods too. These clubs seem to attract nerds and electrical engineers. Can't understand why.
:lol: That's funny. It's a good idea, but I wonder if I have the free time:-/ We'll see.
Right now i am gathering as much information as possible. I'd like to do a conversion as cheap as possible, so I'm hoping to find a solution cheaper than $8,000.
