Is a $500 electric car possible?

January 1, 2009 by Curt Siters

An electric car for $500US? Is it possible? Does it work? What kind of performance does it get? How far can you go on a charge? How much does it cost to recharge?

I was reading my twitter posts and checking out some of my new Twitter friends and just sort of following links from their home pages. One thing led to another and I came across a website that claims you can retrofit a car into an electric vehicle for $500US.. They have a you tube video on the page, which I watched and at the end was listed some related videos - one of which was Tom Hanks.

Tom has enough money to buy any vehicle he could want and still afford the gas and insurance. Why would he be driving a retrofitted XB?

The answer is simple - economics. One of the things you do to create wealth, or keep it, is to NOT spend your money unwisely. OK, you can help the environment too.

My girlfriend and I drive a Prius and are getting just shy of 50 mpg and for all the driving we do it still costs us about $40 per month. If we were to do this kind of conversion on a vehicle for city driving, at a cost of $1.00 per day we would experience a fuel savings of 25%. The fuel savings for a car getting worse gas mileage is even greater.

If you want to give it a shot you can get plans and support (comes with the plans) at Convert2EV.

I am challenging the auto geeks to get busy and help get us off of carbon based fuels.

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Curt Siters is an Independent Associate for Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. He is also aYoung Living Essential Oils Independent distributor and publishes articles on YourWebReference and at TheVeryEssence. He also does web work such as website design, website maintenance and SEO for websites.

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