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Golf Cart for Electric Kit Car

Electric Cars are for Girls

Is there any 8-person golf cart which can go at least 50 mph, so you can use all the parts and build an electric kit car?

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. There are already commercially available kits with excellent, detailed instructions for how to convert a vehicle.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

Additionally, Rickard hosted several EV Conversion Conventions (EVCCON), where “He gave out shirts which read ‘Kickin' gas one car at a time,’ Garver explained. Back to the Beck Rickard explained that her father started converting cars to electric with a 1957 Beck speedster. Jack Rikard on EVTV. That was his motto.”

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More Delays

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Over the past few weeks I've been trying to contact the folks at Electro Automotive to get the status of the EV 914 kit. They finally responded last night and apparently they're completely buried under the demand for EV conversion kits. He got one of the earlier DC motor kits for the 914 from Electro Automotive.

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

Green Car Congress

The new technology relies on more natural speech patterns rather than a restricted set of commands to perform in-car tasks such as hands-free phone dialing or requesting navigation. A person sitting in the Palo Alto laboratory can access real-time video streamed over existing 4G/LTE technology to drive golf carts thousands of miles away.

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The Suspension is Here!

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

If you hadn't read before, the 18 8-volt golf cart batteries add 800 pounds to the weight of the car, so the suspension needs upgrading. If I go to the shop and have these replaced, I won't really be able to drive the car around. The real gamble is how fast the rest of the kit shows up.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

To be clear, our priority at Ford is not in making marketing claims or being in a race for the first autonomous car on the road. This revolves around learning more about how customers go about their day using their car—the car learning from driver behavior, driving style, plus factors like traffic and weather.

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