Convert Your Car to Electric

The resources for you to convert your car to electric include books, online guides, and conversion companies that will do the work for you.

Many of the online resources and books that are available will take you step-by-step through converting your existing non-electric car to battery power.

These guides include advice on such important considerations as component selection, wiring techniques, battery boxes, and so on.

In addition to doing the conversion of the engine to battery power, you need to take into account how rest of the car will behave after the conversion.

If you need a heater, defroster, or air conditioning, your conversion should take those needs into account, and the requirement may even restrict you from doing the work, as these things increase the vehicle weight considerably.

Instead of doing these conversions from the instructions from books or from online resources, many experts say that electric "plug-in" kits and giving the conversion work to be done by professionals is a better idea.

Of these, according to Electro Automotive, in general terms, for a typical DC system conversion, you will have about $6,000 - $10,000 in parts, plus about $1,000 - $1,200 in batteries.

If you do hire a mechanic or a conversion company to do all or most of the work, you will probably pay $3,500 - $8,000, which depends on the complexity of the conversion.

The companies selling electric vehicle kits include