Many people may not have heard of Gavin Shoebridge of New Zealand unless they are Do It Yourself (DIY) electric car enthusiasts. In the EV conversion field, Gavin is known as The EV Guy.

Many people were very impressed by his work of converting an old Mitsubishi Tredia into a pure plug-in electric vehicle (EV). Gavin became a well know EV celebrity when he posted his electric car conversion project videos on YouTube.

Not too long ago, Gavin wrote a book on DIY electric car conversion, the Electric Conversion Made Easy guide. The book is available from www.evsecrets.com and is meant for anyone interested to convert their conventional car to run on pure electricity.

Is Gavin Shoebridge’s electric car conversion guide any good?

If you were to visit his web site, Gavin promised to teach anyone to start an EV project even he has completely no automotive skill or experience. This has been proven true because when Gavin converted his Tredia, he has no idea what he was doing. But through the process of trial and error, he managed to roll out his EV from his garage after almost 1 year working on it.

It took Gavin that long to complete his electric car project because most of the modification done didn’t work very well and had to be redone. His Electric Conversion Made Easy guide basically listed down what worked for him.

From his guide book, Gavin covers every components of an electric car such as electric motor, controller, deep cycle batteries, potential box, circuit breaker, vacuum pump, shunt etc. In his e-book, he also wrote about the rules and regulation of EV conversion and also tax rebates and deduction for electric cars.

If you are still not sure, don’t worry. Gavin has included his personal guarantee on his electric car conversion guide. If for whatever reason you do not see any value from his manual, you can ask for a full refund within 60 days from your purchase date. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

If you are concern about high gasoline prices and you want to find a way to reduce your monthly gasoline budget, why not consider using a plug-in electric car. If you are willing to invest the time and money, Gavin will help you with the instructions.

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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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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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