One of the key components of a Do It Yourself (DIY) electric car is the battery bank. Since an electric vehicle (EV) has no internal combustion engine and no gas tank, the main source of power is from the batteries. The kind of battery most suitable for EV is the deep cycle type. It is [...]
Cheap Battery Replacement Option For Toyota Prius Do you own a Toyota Prius hybrid car? That is the current craze nowadays with Toyota heavily pushing its green cars especially the Prius model. Do you know the hybrid batteries have a limited life span of 8 years or 150,000 miles on average? Many Prius owners do [...]
One of the key areas you want to work on during an electric car conversion project is the transmission. The transmission is a little more challenging. The transmission was originally designed to coupled to a clutch plate. When you are building a Do It Yourself (DIY) electric car, you are not going to use a [...]