Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
 | By Bob Brant McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 1993, Paperback Customer Rating: 29 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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Product Description
Commercially sold electric cars have many advantages over their gas-powered counterparts. They're ecologically sound, much cheaper to operate, and require almost no routine maintenance. Now comes a step-by-step, illustrated guide to building a low-cost electric vehicle from scratch or kit — with full coverage of the latest components and where to purchase them.
Product Details
Title: Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
Sales Rank: 113655 in Books
Author: Bob Brant
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 1 edition, 1993-09-01, Paperback, 310 pages, ISBN: 0830642315
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches, 1.1 pounds
Customer Reviews
- Build Your Own Crusade
- The beginning of the book is "off target." It begins with politics and hyperbole: through the end of chapter 3 can be skipped without loosing context (chapter 3 may be of interest to history buffs). Chapter 4 and 5 can be skimmed -- 4 for its tables and pictures of conversions and 5 to get an idea of available sources. Chapters 6-10 provide a significant amount of conversion information: the reader will… More reviews
- A must for the EV conversion project!
- I am using this book as a research and knowledge base for my pending Plug In Electric Vehicle (EV)project. I am converting a 1992 Mazda MX-3 to a plug in fully electric auto.
This book is the best place to begin, it conceptualizes the whole environment surrounding the need for conversions providing historical back ground, economic understanding, and environmental impact information. Although the book… More reviews
- Build Your Own Electric Vehicle - EXCELLENT!
- A good review of history of the electric car, best vehicles to convert, lists of sources for kits and parts, diagrams of how to do it, etc.
Highly recommended. More reviews
- Outdated, but decent basic information - OK place to start
- A good place to start if you prefer to look at paper vs. the computer screen. Much more & better info available on the internet.
Does cover the basics - what exactly is involved in a conversion, batteries, controller, charger, motor & the "extras" - main contactor etc.
Others complained about too much math, but I found it was too basic to make any… More reviews
- Great resource for DIY electric car designers
- I've read several books on Electric Vehicles and this is, by far, the definitive resource for the DIY Electric Vehicle designer. It provides details and pictures on every topic necessary to design and build an electric vehicle from an existing gas vehicle.… More reviews
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