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Electric Pedicabs - future for London's transport

DIY Electric Car

While the industry is unregulated some of the lads started using electric motors (hub motors) similar to those produced by golden motor and run these pedicabs on the lead acid or gel batteries. If these would be classified as a motor vehicles then there would be a requirement of actually having the MOT and car tax disc displayed.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. 25 or more gets you a bumper sticker.

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