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Date:         Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:46:00 -0500 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         kstevens@eesun2.tamu.edu (Kenneth Michael Stevens)
Subject:      Converting to electric?

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!

PS - Anybody from the Austin area out there? Any advice on where to get VW parts and/or VW junkyards in the area?

Thanks.

--- Ken Stevens : kstevens@eesun2.tamu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University Office : (409)845-4472 Homepage : http://tam2000.tamu.edu/~kms2803


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