According to Gavin, the shelf will store some of the delicate components such the high amp fuse, circuit breaker, throttle box controller, emergency cut off switch etc.

When you watch the video, you can see Gavin gave a very useful tip on how to mark the drill holes on the board before drilling. A very handy usage of a 2 dollar lipstick on the garage.

The EV control panel has the electric controller sitting on it. To cool the controller, it is actually sitting on a piece of aluminum plate. The aluminum plate is raised slightly with space bolts creating better air ventilation to increase cooling efficiency. Pretty smart idea. Check out the video.

Convert Your Own Electric Car

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When you are converting a gasoline driven car to run on electricity, there are a few electrical accessories in your car that you may not get to use. If you are using a vehicle during cold winter months, you’ll want a heater to keep you warm. Unless you don’t mind wear thick clothing every time you get into your car.

When you are starting your Do It Yourself electric car conversion project, you have to get a donor car. Some times, due to the condition of the donor car, it may not have a heater or the heater in simply broken. How do you replace the heater with minimum cost? You can install one yourself by using the heating element of an ordinary room heater.

Watch the video below. Gavin Shoebridge of New Zealand modified a room heater that he bought from an appliance shop to be used on his electric car. What Gavin did was to remove the heating element and attached it to the existing water heater core in the air condition unit.

It’s a straight forward and simple process. Just cut a hole on the core, insert the heating element, seal it with some high temperature gasket sealant, hook it up to the power source and you will have a heater for your home made electric car.

Les Oke’s has been driving and converting electric cars for more than 20 years. Convert 2 EV is a manual he written for EV novices. Just enter your name and email address in the form on upper right of this blog and you can download the e-book immediate.

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If you are doing a DIY electric car conversion from your home garage, one of the main components for the EV is the electric motor. Getting the electric motor delivered to your house is an exciting feeling!

The next step is to connect the electric motor to the existing transmission unit. How do you do that? There are numerous ways to connect both the motor and transmission shaft together. You can custom made a metal bracket and then use a universal coupler. Alternatively, you also custom made an adapter plate.

The video below shows how Gavin Shoebridge of New Zealand custom made an adapter for his electric motor. He actually outsourced the work to a local engineering workshop. That is a good idea. Have you tried drilling, cutting and filing an 1 inch metal plate? It is not fun is you don’t have the proper tools and equipment.

When the adapter plate is done, all you have to do is bolt on the electric motor and connect is to the transmission unit. Make sure you have sufficient bolts. At this stage, it might be helpful if you have a hoist handy. The electric motor plus the adapter plate can weight quite a bit. When the electric motor is connected to the transmission, next you have to secure it the chassis of your homemade electric car.

Do you need a clutch for a DIY electric car conversion? Some people would prefer a clutch system on the EV to shift gears on the go. In fact, when you are driving a homemade electric car, you can just leave it in 2nd or 3rd gear. All you have to do is shift it into gear, press on the accelerator pedal and off you go.

Just to show you a DIY electric car does not need a clutch, the video below shows good old Gavin Shoebridge removes (grid off) the whole clutch pedal of his Mitsubishi Tredia electric donor car.

Convert Your Own Electric Car

Want to know how to convert a conventional automobile into a plug in electric car? If you do, download the 20 DIY Electric Car Conversion Videos e-book.

The e-book will show you videos of homemade electric cars and the different components needed for the conversion project. Click on the link below to download the free e-book now!

==> Click here to download free e-book!

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These are minor wear and tear of an old car. It can be fixed quite easily. Just buy some car body filler, cover the holes, sand it down and spray paint. For rust, just use a sand paper to smoothen it up and paint it over.

There are a lot to be done of an electric car conversion donor vehicle. The cost can be kept down. All you need is some time and a little elbow grease. Check out how Gavin Shoebridge of New Zealand prepares his Mitsubishi Tredia donor car for his DIY electric car conversion.

Here a follow up video on Gavin Shoebridge electric car conversion project in New Zealand. This is where Gavin manually removes all the redundant car parts in an old gasoline driven Mitsubishi “Treadia”.

Since Gavin is building a pure electric car, the following bits and pieces are not needed.

There was a big surprise and the end of the video about the gear box…check it out. If you are looking for more information on DIY electric car conversion in New Zealand, check out Gavin EV Conversion website.

1) Donor Car for DIY Electric Car Conversion

2) Home Converted Electric Car

Do you know how a Do It Yourself (DIY) electric car looks like?

From the outside, it looks just like any other car on the street. The secret is on the inside. Instead of a dirty and noisy internal combustion engine, the torque comes from a DC electric motor.

The video above shows a chap by the name Gavin Shoebridge from New Zealand. Gavin actually converted his 1987 Mitsubishi Treadia into a full ledge electric vehicle (EV).

How much does his EV conversion project cost?

The cost of the project is about 12,000 New Zealand dollar. The EV has 12 deep cycle batteries and is capable of going 60km per charge.

Gavin actually documented his entire EV conversion project on videos. He just released a manual call Electric Conversion Made Easy.

It is an e-book with High Definition (HD) instructional videos teaching people step by step how to convert a gas guzzle to run on pure electricity. Click on the link below for more information.

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