In Part 2 of our design series, we talked about how to design for/install your batteries, motors and brakes. In this, we are going to keep it a little shorter, touching on your cars 12 Volt system. Prior to starting your conversion, you car had an alternator. The alternator is belt driven and runs off your combustion engine. Basically the motors spins the belt, the belt spins a motor on your alternator and BAM 12V…
Here at The Electric Speed Shop, not only are we fascinated with electric cars and the process of converting old combustion engine beauties to electric performance machines, but we are enamored with growing this blog to a full fledged business. The ultimate goal is take this blog, develop it into a known, trusted and respected “brand”. Any money generated would go 100% into building a physical business of converted cars to electric (for reference, we…
In our earlier article, we provided a high level walk through of how to convert a vehicle from a gas combustion engine to electric. You can find that article here: EV Conversion Basics – 1 . This post is going to walk you through what should be your first step, designing your conversion. This makes the assumption that you already have a car, or know the specific car you want to convert. You should also…
The Electric Speed Shop is supposed to be all about converting combustion engine cars to electric while improving their performance. We are not at the point yet where we are doing physical conversions so we are talking about EV news, EV tech and sharing our conversion knowledge along the way. Seems only fitting that we talk about the most important conversion.ever.done. Yes, the Tesla Roadster started out as a conversion before becoming a production car.…
Blog -> Brand -> Business: Start a blog type page on Facebook. Use it to post news and opinion pieces about electric vehicles (EVs). Allow others to comment and have a discussion, create a community. Share any knowledge you learn about converting combustion engine cars to EV, with a focus on sports cars. Document the process of taking this little blog to a known brand all the way to physical, real speed shop. Simple, start…