Our New Civic

We bought it! Here's a picture of John and his wife, saying goodbye to their first EV conversion (but not their last).

It's perfect as my wife's daily driver... there'd be no point putting a lot of money into a higher-end EV, when her commuting needs are so simple. So for $4700 already converted, this EV is a great deal!

Crossing the Rockies

On Memorial Day weekend, we drove out to Montana to look at an Electric Vehicle that was converted by JB (http://mt-ev.blogspot.com). This one is a 1988 Honda Civic. It's intended as a city car, like a Zenn. It's got a 72V system installed, with six 12V lead acid batteries.

The drive out there was interesting. I'm an east coast boy; I've been in every state east of the Mississippi River except Vermont. But as such, I've always flown to the west coast, and in the 10 years I've lived in the Seattle area, I haven't done much traveling. So driving to Montana added 2 new states to my list: Idaho and Montana! The drive across the Rockies was beautiful. And, incidentally, our gas-powered 2002 Corolla averaged 42 mpg on this trip.

Looking Forward: EV Metro

As inspiration, I already bought a couple "EV" decals that match the black shaded / lined style of the Metro's original badges.

1991 Geo Metro donor

Hi all, my name's Rodney, and I live in Bellevue, WA.

My wife and I want to convert our driving lives to electric as much as possible, feasible, and affordable. Her work commute is usually about 10 miles round-trip in a day on city streets, and mine is less than 20 miles round-trip with one brief (1-mile) highway section in each direction. Both of these trips are easily achievable with low-cost owner-conversion Electric Vehicles.

On May 2, 2009, we bought a 1991 Geo Metro 5-door hatchback which we intend to convert to electric, a project which will be chronicled on this blog. It's very clean for an 18 year old car. Built in Canada, it's got the 1.0L 3-cylinder engine, manual steering, and power brakes.