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ecovolta develops standardized Li-ion traction battery; saving cost and time

Green Car Congress

Manufacturers can rapidly convert even smaller or pre-existing vehicle series to run on electricity, creating prototypes within just a few weeks, ecovolta said. The evoTractionBattery, on the other hand, can be configured within a few hours, whether it’s being used in a golf cart or a lorry. evoTractionBattery.

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Electric Quad Project.

DIY Electric Car

My plan is to convert this ride into an EV. I am leaning towards a golf cart or forklift motor. All the Golf cart motors I have been finding on the net are either 10 or 19 spline. I have the resources to create an adapter to convert the 13 spine either up or down to match a golf cart motor.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

From the beginning of his work to make vehicles electric, Jack believed the way to do it was to encourage individuals to convert their own vehicles to electric and show them to others,” said GEVA President Wayne Garver. Back to the Beck Rickard explained that her father started converting cars to electric with a 1957 Beck speedster.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Other speakers have included an HEAA member who builds electric motorcycles, another who has converted gas lawn mowers into electric, and a third who is proud to move around his property while sitting in his converted electric La-Z-Boy. Hanson also spoke of HEAA member Jason Rapp , a pro bono coder for A Better Route Planner.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. Nevertheless, “I took the motorcycle around to show it off,” Steiner said, telling the story of an Earth Day celebration in Indianapolis in 2008 where he met Nick Harless, who had worked with his son Scott to convert a Pontiac Fiero.

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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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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. Nevertheless, “I took the motorcycle around to show it off,” Steiner said, telling the story of an Earth Day celebration in Indianapolis in 2008 where he met Nick Harless, who had worked with his son Scott to convert a Pontiac Fiero.

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