Has anyone been thinking about building an electric car (home-made) for themselvees any time soon? Options

[shawnbem]

I just read of how a man in Los Angelese has converted an old Porsche 914 to an electric car with a 60 mile range for $18,000 (24 lead acid batteries)
I thought to myself that's a good idea. Probably better to buy an electric scooter though, if you don't need to take the freeway often as is the case in L.A.

I'm now doing some investigation into that idea and I hope to begin building my own electic car also. Does anyone else have similar plans?

I have heard about how its actually better to convet old small pickup trucks (Ford/Toyota/GM) to electric pickups because the box can hold more batteries and the springs are easily upgraded to hold the extra tonnage. Lead acid batts are heavy but they're cheap, so that's why Lithium Ions are shunned for now.

[Chris Pincetich]

A well done 914 EV can be way faster 0-40 mph than a stock 2.0 TIV or most any other TIV. They get better every year. Someone posted this year about dropping a Tesla motor into a 914 EV, one that had been trouble free for years and now was going to be faster than before. Due to the amount of negative comments, I am not surprised they stopped posting here.

I see a lot of 914 projects on 914 World I don't agree with, but rather than criticize and "call BS" I prefer order more parts and work on mine, making it the way I want it to be, not they way anyone tells me it should be (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)