> Howdy everyone! I just got back on the list after a > long absence caused by moving from Virginia to Texas. > The list sure has grown in the meantime. Anyway, here's > my question...has anyone out there ever done a conversion > of a bus to an electric vehicle? Or do you know someone > who has? I've been considering resurrecting one of the > lonely busses down at the junkyard and converting it to > an electric, but I wanted to find any information or even > plans (if someone here has done it before) on the best > way to go about it. I found that they're willing to sell > a decent bus body, clutch and transmission minus the engine > for about $200-300, so I'm seriously considering it. It'd > be great to be cruisin' down the road in a bus that's > completely silent and see the puzzled looks on people's > faces! ;) If you have any experience with this sort of > conversion please, please help me out! > While I have no experience, I recall seeing somewhere an article from the late 60's of a race between teams from MIT and some school I believe in Cal.The Cal. team had an electric Sunroof Deluxe, which of course won the race hands down! If this could be done then, I would imagine with today's technology, it could certainly be done.
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