Rating: ★★★★½
Authors: Jane And Les Oke, Convert-2-Ev.com
Pages: 91

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While the idea of transforming a standard car into one that is powered purely by electricity is tempting, I can’t imagine anything that sounds more complicated. Frankly, before reading this book I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start and I dread to think how much research would have been required by me – assuming I could find all the information I needed in the first place.

Even so, the idea of saving a considerable sum of money on gas plus helping the environment at the same time were very tempting.

As someone with very few technical skills, it was with interest recently that I read this manual, in all honesty expecting to be lost within a matter of pages in complicated diagrams and terms I didn’t understand.

As it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised by both how easy the book is to understand and also all the resources it includes. Almost half the book explains how to gather the equipment you will need for little to no money. For example, you will learn where to get “dead” batteries to power your car that nobody else wants and then how to recondition them so they are perfectly workable (and safe!). This means that in contrast to my initial suspicions, you can actually adapt your car for very little cost indeed.

One thing which makes perfect logical sense, but which hadn’t crossed my mind, was that if you’re looking to convert a car into an electric one, you can get away with a “non-runner”. Obviously the engine is one of the most expensive parts of a car so when a car is still in workable condition in terms of bodywork etc. but the engine is dead you can pick them up for virtually nothing. The example in the book is a perfectly serviceable car that the authors bought for just $200 and then transferred to an electric car that then cost just $1 for a full charge! Compare that with the cost of a tank of gas!

The second section of the book – the shorter part – is actually about fitting all the equipment and getting your car running. I was both surprised and impressed that this is actually made quite simple by the authors and I felt that even someone with my lack of technical abilities could achieve this with a little patience.

In short, this ebook really does cover every aspect of making an electric car from sourcing a cheap vehicle to convert if you don’t have one, down to finding cheap equipment and doing the conversion and I feel this guide could genuinely help anyone achieve the same.

Best of all, the authors, who live off-grid themselves, talk from their own experiences of doing it themselves rather than some dry theory they have picked up from a book.

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