Tagged: New Zealand
EV Conversion – Heating Your DIY Electric Car
Keeping Your Homemade Electric Car Warm
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 [...]
Preparing The Electric Donor Car – Gavin Shoebridge Style
One way of saving money on a Do It Yourself (DIY) electric car conversion is to get an old gasoline driven car as the project donor vehicle. No doubt an old and busted car is cheap, but it comes with a few extra. Usually you will get a “rust” paint job and extra holes on [...]
Learn more...Electric Car New Zealand – Taking Things Out
Taking Parts Out Manually
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.
Gas tank
Exhaust system
Fuel lines
Petrol filler [...]
