Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

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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Kits Conversion Golf Cart Saturn 185

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

AUGUST 12, 2007

Here are some cool looking Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). They run on 48 volts and the company sells them as a kit for about $3500. He built the DC version of the Electro Automotive kit awhile back and challenged me to a drag duel at Nedra next week. With batteries and additional items, the final cost is around $5000.

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Portland Belgium Kits Neighborhood 100

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

One of the annoying behaviors of the motor system in my AC 914 kit is that the default DMOC445 parameters causes the acceleration and braking to have oscillations. So, I took the car out into the neighborhood with the laptop hooked up and started playing around with the EEX???TorqueSlew TorqueSlew parameters listed in the DMOC445.

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Neighborhood Conversion Kits Convert 100

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As we reported in our exclusive interview with ABC Solar’s Brad Bartz last month, he was battling the City of Torrance on behalf of a homeowner in my very own Hollywood Riviera neighborhood who was being blocked from installing solar by the City. Plug In Conversions Corp. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world.

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