All about electric & hybrid cars

by Robert J. Traister

The technology is here now to produce electric cars to replace the fuel guzzlers that crowd our highways, and you can begin taking advantage of this breakthrough today. You'll dis4 cover that electric vehicles have been a vital means of short-range transportation in European countries where electric vans; electric delivery trucks, and electric taxicabs are not uncommon! However, it took the gasoline crunch of the mid-70s and rapidly increasing fuel prices to accelerate the search for an even more versatile electric car. With this book, a practical electric automobile can be yours at an attractively low price. Power storage and consumption are examined, along with ways to improve vehicle efficiency. There is even a. section on solar storage batteries. Electric motors are dismissed in detail, along with speed control. Various methods of acquiring an electric car are investigated, from building your own, using any of several commercially available kits, to converting your present gasoline