I have considered converting it back the gas

DIBS!

I figured it would not be hard to part with,  Eric is interested in it also

I've been sitting on a forklift motor for 10 years, and it's very uncomfortable. 

that sounds uncomfortable! I hope you stand up every once and a while! Maybe its time to buy a proper chair to sit on!

Well here we go again. About every year or so this subject pops up. Maybe in another 20 years somebody might make a all electric car work and go further than 20 miles. The Baker Electric car did about 15-20 miles and that was in 190?.  Yes sir ,Great progress in the last 110 years.

The technology to make an electric car that will actually work is out there . . . BUT . . . The big problems are the cost and weight of the batteries and charge time.  Generally speaking the cheaper the batter, the heavier it is and longer it takes to charge it.  Lighter batteries generaly charge quicker, but are EXPENSIVE . . . and still a little on the heavy side and take some time to charge.  If someone ever figures out how to quickly and cheaply store enough electricity to get you a couple hundred miles down the road, internal combustion engines will go the way of the dodo bird.  The closest thing anyone has come to producing that has a decent range is the Tesla . . . and they go for a hundred grand, you have to wait in line for a couple of years to get one . . . and they still won't go but around a hundred miles on a charge.  I don't look for internal combustion engines to go extinct anytime soon . . . but for short trips, something like this Beetle would be great!

Well it's officially in the young family collection now,  call the emissions office and waiting to hear back what I need to do to be able to register it,  I passed inspection in PN,  and was emission exempt

any updates? Did you get it through emissions?



Hey that would be a great way to get a late bug/bus through! Set it up with any easy install electric option, get the waiver and then put the gas engine back in. Every year, you drive down there (not in that vehicle off course!!!) and make a stink, point to the waiver and say it's electric (boogie woogie woogie)

Just drive up to the local testing station, don't say anything, get out, and video the fun as they try to find the exhaust pipe and fuel cap....

And put that stuff on youtube.... 


You know you want to...

Here's a recent post on an electric beetle, but I believe it took him a little longer to build his!

Meet the Lightning Bug, and its 73-year-old creator
http://wtvr.com/2013/08/21/holmberg-meet-the-lightning-bug-and-its-73-year-old-creator/