Build Your Own Electric Car - Training DVD

This summer, I found a bit too much time on my hands, due to unemployment from the "Economic Downturn".

Rather than sit on my butt, I made a list of assets:
An Electric Car.
My DIY experience in building it.
A video camera.
Time.

And a list of my liabilities:
Money (the lack of.)

So, I got crackin'. I wrote up an outline and script, and went through, on camera, every step it took me to build an electric car.

After editing, converting to DVD, AND adding a companion disc of additional info, I now had BUILD YOUR OWN ELECTRIC CAR: CHEAP!

I did start selling copies of the DVD set this summer, and sales of it allowed me to present on my car at both the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair and the first ever Mother Earth Fair!

I finally got around to making a YouTube Video to promote the instructional video. (Which is at the top!)

I hope you have enjoyed all my YouTube videos and blogging on electric vehicles!!!

Thank you to everyone who has supported my efforts in DIY clean transportation: my wife, the guys at Ecomodder.com, the Milwaukee Makerspace and Electric Car Club, my sister for cover design, and super cool guys like Paul, Adam, Darin, and everyone else. You know who you are!

REVOLT HYBRID First Real Drive.

REVOLT DIY Hybrid Overview

REVOLT DIY Hybrid Remote Start

DIY Hybrid Propane Generator running

Solar Panel Road Trip

Bringing Home the Chevy Volt

One of the first consumer Chevy Volts gets brought home!
When I originally heard the official release date of the Volt would be Fall of 2010 - specifically November, it always seemed so far away, and though it just wouldn't happen.

But here we are. And the first few Volts are rolling out.

First Ride in an Electric Car

First look at Chevy Volt

Finally got to see a Chevy Volt in person!

Check it out!

-Ben

RADIO FLYER CAR: Valley couple's Radio Flyer car turns heads - ktuu.com

RADIO FLYER CAR: Valley couple's Radio Flyer car turns heads - ktuu.com

Build Your Own Electric Car: Cheap, Part 7 of 7

Build Your Own Electric Car: Cheap, part 6

Build Your Own Electric Car: Cheap, Part 5

Build Your Own Electric Car, Part 3

Build Your Own Electric Car, Part 2

Build Your Own Electric Car, Part 4

Build Your Own Electric Car, Part 1

AC Controller Project #1.wmv

Here's the latest video of Paul's AC controller.

Originally, Paul started a project of a homebuilt DC controller. With input from many other people, it turned into the fantastic Open ReVolt DC Controller Project. Take a look at Ecomodder.com for more info on that.

Since that project, many people have been asking about AC motor controllers (variable frequency drives.)
This video is the open source AC Electric Car Controller project that he has been working on since then.

If you are interested in kits for the Open Revolt, you can buy them through Pauls web page: http://www.paulandsabrinasevstuff.com/index.html

White Zombie Electric Datsun in 10.258-sec 1/4-mile run at PIR 11sep2010

You just gotta like the White Zombie. Nothing like taking a street-legal electric car to the local race track and beating all the gasoline cars.

It's what my Electro-Metro wants to be when it grows up....

ElecTrak Solar Charging