My Dream Car

Converting your car to an electric vehicle is an easy task which could be performed at home if you desperately want to do it. Although there are many conversion companies through which you can get your car converted to electric, it is important to make sure that you know the history of the company in order to prevent trouble with converted car later on.

In order to convert your car to electric you will have to follow the following steps:

1. First of all you will need to calculate the cost for converting your car to electric which will be around $8000 to $12000 depending on several factors like the type of car being used as a donor, the quality and quantity of batteries and the fee charged by the conversion company if you choose to convert through them.

2. Secondly you will need a donor car which you can convert to electric. Once you choose the type of car you want to convert to electric, you will have to replace the entire combustion engine of the car with an electrical motor and batteries .

3. As you require a lot of batteries, you need to make space for it in the car. It’s not very difficult to find out adequate space for the batteries, so most of cars even some small cars can work. The batteries need to be installed at the engine space or at the back of the car in the boot. Battery placement is the most important part of the converting project. You need to balance the weight of the batteries with your carrying capacity and need to choose between save more room for passengers for comfortable and less room but more miles a single charge can last . You only can choose one depending on your driving habits.

4. You need to consider the type of battery you need to put in your car. There are Lithium , nickel and lead batteries. Lead batteries need to be charged for longer periods like 6-12 hours before they can work.The batteries technology is improved very fast now. Recently some company did claim to have produced a battery that allows electric vehicles to go 400 miles on a single charge.

5. You can easily get “electric conversion kit” in the market. As they provide the basic conversion kit suitable for every other car, you will have to buy other components needed to meet the exact requirements of your own car.

Once you have converted car to electric, it will incur much less cost on you in terms of maintenance. However, you will be able to cover 60-80 miles with the maximum speed of 50-90MPH before batteries need to be recharged again. This range also depends on the type of batteries installed and the quality of engine. It is highly recommended to use light, manual cars for the conversion as automatic ones require a lot of power.

Knowing these basics for converting car to electric, you can always opt to do that at your home at a much lower cost. Although this project maybe will spend you two or more weeks, but it is so great that the it will save about 75% gas fee for you. So your electric car conversion project will pay for itself in about three months.