Do I have a story to tell you! 15 years ago, my wife Jane and I bought some land and built our own house on it. We then made it a goal to power our new home with alternative energy. First, we figured out how to build solar panels and then we moved on to wind generators. We needed lots of batteries, of course, to store all this free energy we were producing, but we couldn't afford brand new ones. So we had to get a little creative.
After some legwork and a lot of trial and error, we stumbled upon an amazing source of cheap batteries that worked great for storing energy and powering our home. But we didn't stop there. As you will soon learn, using alternative energy becomes addictive and we had the bug pretty bad! So we next set eyes on our gas-guzzling car and truck...
Could we actually convert these vehicles to run off batteries instead of gasoline? Without knowing what we were doing, we decided to find out. After several months of experimenting and a lot of long days, we got everything to work. Then we started making a series of design improvements to increase the speed and cruising range.
Once we began driving our electric vehicles around town, our friends and neighbors started showing up asking questions. They wanted us to show them how they could convert their own cars to electric. So we sat down and wrote up all the things we had learned, creating a step-by-step set of plans that we could give out.
Within months, we started getting requests from people we didn't even know. That's what led us to create this website, so we could offer our knowledge to anyone interested in converting their own car to electric.
You see, we're really no different than you. We’re just regular people who wanted to reduce our expenses and live a more sustainable life. Now we would like to share with you exactly what we learned and how we managed to complete the conversions on a super-tight budget.
