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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Road rallies were held in Juneau, Alaska , where local and state elected officials riding the city’s first electric bus led the way, and in Muskegon, Michigan , where 70 participants in 40 cars, motorcycles, and a golf cart, navigated a 150-mile circuit from Muskegon to Holland to Grand Rapids and back to Muskegon.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” People are thinking ‘I’m going to get one of these cars at some point and I want to learn more about them.’” “The first year we were invited, we planned to show a few conversions, including a VW bus and a VW Bug,” Douglass explained.

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Hauling Lead and Confusing Connections

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

These high-capacity 8-volt golf-cart batteries are 70 pounds apiece. I got this battery strap at a Yamaha golf cart dealer. I forgot to get 5/16" stainless steel flat washers to properly connect these copper bars (whoops, back to the hardware store). Tonight was an evening of heavy lifting. And the rear box.

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