The Electric Car Conversion Kit is Dead – 5 Lessons From the Front Line of Electric Car Conversions

Converting your car from gas to electric is a trend that will only continue to grow. But you need to do it intelligently if you’re going to save money and save the planet. Here are the top five things to know about converting your car to electric power.

1. Gas remains an undependable energy source. Gas is expensive, non-renewable, and unpredictable. Everyone knows there’s a finite supply of fossil fuels. Eventually prices must go up as supply dwindles, but even now, it’s an unpredictable resource. Factors such as financial speculation, war, and swine flu can suddenly threaten availability and distribution.

2. Hybrid cars take too big a toll. The manufacture of hybrid cars creates a huge “carbon debt” that requires several years of hybrid driving to make up. While a car that’s already in existence can be converted to run on electricity without incurring the carbon debt that the manufacture of a brand new hybrid (or other new car) would produce.

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3. An electric car conversion kit isn’t the deal we thought it was. They’re not cheap. Prices are anywhere from ,000 to ,000. It takes at least a mid-range kit to convert a car into an electric car that performs well enough for general purposes. If you plan to buy a prefab kit, you need to understand the basic concepts involved so you’ll be able to choose one that is adequate for your needs.

4. You can do-it-yourself easily and better. You can convert your own gas-powered car to run on electricity for about 10% of the cost of a prefabricated conversion kit. There’s nothing magical about making a car run on electricity. You can do it for 0 or less and end up with a car that looks great, does 60 mph, and has a range of 100 miles or better on one charge.

5. Do-it-yourself conversions pay off fast. Driving a car you’ve converted to electricity can save thousands of dollars in fuel. If you’ve been spending a week on gas, you’ll pay off your conversion in less than 90 days.

In the early days when conversions were experimental, an electric car conversion kit made sense. Now that there are experienced mechanics who are willing to share expertise and sources of cheap parts, do-it-yourself is far cheaper and the more responsible way to go.

Go for the Green: Spiritual Lessons for Life from the Game of Golf

Go for the Green: Spiritual Lessons for Life from the Game of Golf

This daily round of golf-themed devotions treks the seasons of golf throughout the year. Conceived by the founder of a faith-and-golf ministry which publishes the Links Letter magazine, each devotional is partnered with a solid golf tip to help the reader get to the green. Written in a pleasant, intelligent style sure to connect with the legions of people of all ages who are ardent players, Go for the Green is a hole-in-one for its target audience.

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The Hydrogen Energy Transition: Cutting Carbon from Transportation

The Hydrogen Energy Transition: Cutting Carbon from Transportation

The Hydrogen Energy Transition addresses the key issues and actions that need to be taken to achieve a changeover to hydrogen power as it relates to vehicles and transportation, and explores whether such a transition is likely, or even possible. Government agencies and leaders in industry recognize the need to utilize hydrogen as an energy source in order to provide cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable energy for the world’s economies. This book analyzes this need and presents the most up-to-date government, industry, and academic information analyzing the use of hydrogen energy as an alternative fuel.

With contributions from policy makers and researchers in the government, corporate, academic and public interest sectors, The Hydrogen Energy Transition brings together the viewpoints of professionals involved in all aspects of the hydrogen-concerned community. The text addresses key questions regarding the feasibility of transition to hydrogen fuel as a means of satisfying the world’s rapidly growing energy needs. The initiatives set forth in this text will mold the research, development and education efforts for hydrogen that will assist in the rapidly growing transportation needs for automobiles and other vehicles.

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GM eyes training site in Tarrytown for hydrogen cars: automaker looks to grow fuel cell program beyond suburban D.C., California.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal

GM eyes training site in Tarrytown for hydrogen cars: automaker looks to grow fuel cell program beyond suburban D.C., California.: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal

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Bush’s nuclear FreedomCAR.(hydrogen cars): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bush’s nuclear FreedomCAR.(hydrogen cars): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Title: Bush’s nuclear FreedomCAR.(hydrogen cars)
Author: Bret Lortie
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Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers

Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers

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Never mind the Ph.D. and middle-class trappings– Laura Pritchett is a Dumpster diver and proud of it. Ever since she was old enough to navigate the contents of a metal bin, she has reveled in the treasures found in other people’s cast-offs.

For Going Green, Pritchett has gathered over twenty writers to tell their personal stories of Dumpster diving, eating road kill, salvaging plastic from the beach, and forgoing another trip to the mall for the thrill of bargain hunting at yard sales and flea markets. These stories look not just at the many ways people glean but also at the larger, thornier issues dealing with what re-using–or not–says about our culture and priorities.

The essayists speak to the joys of going beyond the norm to save old houses, old dishwater, old cultures, old Popsicle sticks, and old friendships–and turning them into something new. Some write about gleaning as a means of survival, while others see the practice as a rejection of consumerism or as a way of treading lightly on the earth.

Brimming with practical and creative new ways to think about recycling, this collection invites you to dive in and find your own way of going green.

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Mazda to Participate in Norwegian National Project HyNor Providing Hydrogen Cars to Norway from Summer 2008.: An article from: JCN Newswires

Mazda to Participate in Norwegian National Project HyNor Providing Hydrogen Cars to Norway from Summer 2008.: An article from: JCN Newswires

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How far away from us electric cars? Four major bottleneck to be resolved

In late November, Premier Wen Jiabao inspected the CAS Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, development of electric vehicles has set three conditions, the thrust is to develop electric cars, and especially in the public transport industry urban rent, sanitation and other developed countries. sony vgp-bps9 battery For electric cars, and perhaps many readers do not understand very well, then the electric car from our real life exactly how far?

Industry view: electric cars is still quite far from us

At present, China’s car market, rechargeable laptop battery sales of hybrid electric vehicle is one category, FAW hybrid Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid and Lexus hybrid models next year edition Camry Hybrid cars will be introduced in China given hybrid cars are slowly emerging.

And pure electric vehicles currently there is no domestic market, basically still at the stage of concept-car, and now many manufacturers are also developing a pure electric vehicles that make greater efforts in the late hybrids and pure electric vehicles, dell inspiron 6400 battery the future development of what would happen? Reporter interviewed a number of professional media professionals.

“Sedan intelligence” chief editor Li Geng

The difficulty of hybrid spread primarily on price, in fact, higher maintenance costs, the popularity of electric vehicles is the difficulty of the burden of convenience, there is a battery electric vehicle driving range is very short. Charge is also a difficulty matching charging station will have a very long time. The current electric cars is only suitable for short range transport, smaller cars. The hybrid is still more for the large displacement model.

Fuel Cell Institute of Tongji University, Professor Xu Si Chuan Engines

The electric cars will eventually not be able to replace the traditional model? I think the future direction of development are: electric cars is very likely that the second family car, because the first car is still dominated by traditional fuels, such as a car,sony vgp-bps8 battery you can lead more comfortable and faster to meet the needs of the sedan over long distances. The second vehicle is used primarily in the city, within the complex conditions in City Road, select power a small electric car more efficient and fast.

Hybrid: At present, prices are still high

Two experienced professionals in the automotive world a different perspective to help us analyze the electric cars and hybrid vehicles, and the development prospects of the development process of any problems, which are also the car manufacturers face. Take December 1 new LS 600hL just listed it with a hybrid Lexus Lexus and the original 5.0-liter direct-injection gasoline V8 engine, but the price was 2.073 million yuan, is very expensive.

The portion of gasoline vehicles to hybrid cars and the transition to a pure electric car is a developing trend because the conditions of return are not yet complete cases, the hybrid is a good alternative and can be the types of alternatives to continue for long, because the hybrid can be used in models of large displacement, and these models are also more sustainable patterns. On the other hand, the automobile market of China in the sale or use in the development of hybrid technology hybrid is also different.

Toyota Prius, gasoline engine High engine power

This is a hybrid system, the electronic vehicle control device is a hub, which allows vehicles to use two types of gasoline engine and electric power system through a combination of serial and parallel form of the work. Toyota Prius to operate normally powered by gasoline engines to make decisions only in times of high load, such as start, acceleration, on the slopes, toshiba pa3191u-3brs battery the engine will not support. The car has a system for recovering energy from braking, deceleration or braking when the car sliding, the electric motor generator is used as a heat dissipation out of the initial kinetic energy of the power drive motor , battery charger, so that the battery is sufficient time status.

Honda Civic: gasoline engines Low engine power

Honda Civic Hybrid and the Prius, as gasoline engines and electric motors are based on mixed model Liaison vehicle powered by its electric motor works much the same, but the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic, there still technically different. Toyota Prius hybrid electric motor 50 kW, while the electric motor power of the Honda Civic Hybrid only 15 kilowatts. Therefore, the Toyota Prius can be called full hybrids, while the Honda Civic Hybrid may be referred to as mild hybrids.

Chery A5 engine fuel + electric

Chery A5 hybrid system uses a motor fuel, the additional electric motor mode. Chery A5/ISG start or low speed, the vehicle will rely on the engine when the vehicle speed increases (generally up to 40 km / h or more) or the need of hard phases of acceleration, the engine petrol to start and start the output power, while in the system of vehicle motion, the kinetic energy of the hybrid system will be converted into electrical energy and stored in batteries to prepare for the next use of driving at low speed .

Pure electric cars: four bottlenecks to solve

“Make the horse race but the horse does not eat, I am afraid that this ideal difficult to achieve in a short period of time, because the development of pure electric vehicles are subject to many constraints, but its prospects are . As bicycles electric current, do not walk on effort, very popular. The key in the battery electric vehicles over the iron batteries BYD current and manufacturers of hydrogen fuel cells, and now many manufacturers are being studied to see what kind of battery charging for sustainability high speed. If a day is really in reality, then the automobile industry will also open a new chapter of history.ibm fru 92p1141 battery Besides the batteries, the process of development of electric vehicles at present there are many notable places.

Question 1: What type of batteries used?

Electric vehicles is the battery must first solve the problem, we have mobile phones commonly used in nickel-hydride batteries, metal and lithium batteries can also be used in electric vehicles, but the nickel-metal hydride the ability of batteries to power small life low mileage, cost of lithium-ion battery is too high, the current BYD F3e used in battery electric vehicle is an iron battery power, this battery is safe inexpensive, high capacity advantages and disadvantages is the weight of too much. But what has been on the road F3e BYD Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles still a long road to mass production. After all, there is a uniform 40 km / h, the load is only 300 km away stamina, endurance under complex road mileage still to be verified, re-charge after the battery is also unknown lifetime .

Question 2: Electric car charging how long?

Most of charging electric vehicles as fuel, as the capacity of an ordinary car, the fuel tank of 50 liters to fill a fuel tank is between 5.6 minutes. The electric car charging time can not control in 5.6 minutes, it’s hard to say, electric car charging F3e BYD’s 10-minute charge of 70%.

Question 3: Where to find the charger plug?

Many people in the vehicles are parked in underground parking spaces or temporary residential parking where there is no plug accompanying costs. If you want to use when the parking fee will depend on our support structure. The service stations in the charging station is a good way, but the battery charge time should be protected, a parking fee and a half hours of electricity to open the case and not a penalty strong?

Question 4: Can old batteries for recycling?

We know that when electric bicycle battery failure or the number of charge cycles caused by too much storage capacity is insufficient, you can replace the battery. The remaining cells will be a general repair shop to handle, because the volume does not impact on the environment, but if an old electric car battery recycling and is a major project to address adverse damage to the environment, but also deviated from the original intent of the vehicles environmentally friendly electricity.

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Owning an Electric Car 2010 Edition: Find the Truth About Using Electric Cars Including Range, Charging, Batteries, Environmental Impact and Everyday Use of Plug in Cars

`Owning an Electric Car’ is full of factual, relevant information without the `techno-babble’ that all too often takes over the debate about electric cars. Where relevant, the book does explain the different technologies that make up an electric car but only in order to help the reader make an informed decision about owning and using an electric car.

The author presents a balanced picture of the environmental impact of electric cars, working through hundreds of research documents, meeting with electricity producers, key people in the nuclear industry, environmental pressure groups, car manufacturers and petro-chemical companies to ascertain the benefits and detriments of different technologies. The author has also carried out some real world tests himself, comparing two electric cars with two comparable combustion engine cars to see how they measure up in terms of environmental performance.

While the environmental debate is an important one, it is not the sole reason for choosing an electric car. For many current electric car owners environmental considerations were not a significant reason for buying their car. Scattered through the book, there are a number of very short articles about different businesses and groups that are working in or around the electric vehicle industry. Some of these are examples of companies building electric cars today, or extending the boundaries of the technology; others are working behind the scenes on infrastructure, or enabling the wide scale uptake of electric cars in other ways. These articles are designed to give you an insight into the creation of an exciting new industry and show how electric cars can work in the real world.

‘Owning an Electric Car’ is the book for anyone who is interested in owning an electric car and who wants to know more about them. If you want to know what an electric car is like to own, use and live with on a day to day basis, this book is for you.

The book has taken over three years to research and has been written with input from hundreds of people from all around the world. From Bangalore to Paris, from Los Angeles to London, electric car owners have contributed their opinions and their experiences to help you make an informed choice about electric cars and whether they could be right for you.

As well as existing electric car owners, the author has talked to vehicle manufacturers, car designers and electric vehicle infrastructure specialists from around the world to discover the technology that makes up an electric car.

The result is this book. By the time you have finished reading it you’ll understand what it is like to own, use and live with an electric car on a daily basis. You’ll understand the benefits and the drawbacks for electric cars and you will know whether or not an electric car is suitable for you.

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My transformation from 5 years of blonde back to good ol’ brunette for the season. Salon Amour is an Aveda salon in Northern California, who promotes earth friendly living. See more fashion and green living tips at www.BachmansSparrow.com/blog

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