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This hands-on guide for converting a gas-powered car to electric has all the information you need to choose a donor car, and successfully make the conversion. It also includes how to drive, charge and maintain your electric car.

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This 163-page book ranks all model year 2003 cars and trucks according to environmental friendliness. Shoppers can compare cars, vans, pickups and SUVs.

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This vegetable-oil based fuel is more biodegradable than sugar and less toxic than table salt. In this essential book, author Greg Pahl explores biodiesel's exciting potential as a fuel for vehicles, home heating and more. It includes resources for buying or making your own biodiesel.

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Using vegetable oils as a fuel for home heating and transportation is a hundred years old. Rudolf Diesel's original engine was operated on plant oils because of the lack of fossil fuels. Later, plant and animal oils were converted into a petrodiesel-compatible fuel known as biodiesel; a clean, low-carbon fuel.

In the early 1980s, home brewers discovered they could transform waste restaurant fryer oils into crude biodiesel and use it in automobiles at 100% concentrations at one quarter the cost of petrodiesel. Yet automotive and engine manufacturers insist that late-model vehicles may be damaged when run on high concentrations of biodiesel and may not honor engine warranties where biodiesel fuel has been used.

This 556-page book aims to separate fact from fiction on the economic production of quality biodiesel. It includes a list of suppliers, descriptions of detailed processes, a guide to numerous reference materials, and lists the equipment required to produce biodiesel that meets North American standards.

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Easily convert a gas motorcycle to electric power with standard tools. This book will show you how to do it in your garage. This DIY book describes all the technology fundamentals, performance trade-offs and design decisions involved in converting a gas motorcycle. It then walks you through a straightforward and highly efficient example conversion of a 1987 Kawasaki 750 sport bike, showing you The Secrets El Ninja As a bonus, this book also covers maintenance and repair of the electrical components of any electric motorcycle. Smooth, fast, quiet, comfortable, clean, and economically smart — that’s what electric motorcycles are all about. In most locations, oil products are not used to produce the electric energy used for charging batteries, and the cost of running an electric motorcycle is less than one-third the cost of running a gas motorcycle. Plus, the amount of smog-producing emissions created when driving an electric motorcycle is zero.

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This 596-page book is packed with firsthand experiences, practical designs and data, plus great stories. It also provides the nitty-gritty details needed to fuel a revolution of small businesses prepared to engage in eco-friendly auto fuel production.

Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books to its readers. For more than 30 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

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The benefits of straight vegetable oil (SVO) as an alternate fuel for diesel engines are many. SVO is cheap, carbon-neutral, uses a waste product, and does not depend upon centralized corporate infrastructure.

SVO is the only book available that explains exactly what you need to convert a diesel vehicle and how to do it properly. It provides readers the knowledge to sort through the different supply companies and online plans to find the best equipment and plans for their needs. While technical in nature, this fully illustrated book is very accessible. Each method is introduced and described in great detail. Illustrated, 226 pages.

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This new, updated edition of Build Your Own Electric Vehicle contains everything that made the first edition so popular and now also covers all the technological advances and new electric car parts that are readily available on the EV market today.

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle will put you in the driver's seat of a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, electric car.

This comprehensive guide covers it all, including converting an internal combustion engine to an electric engine and building an electric vehicle from scratch - for the same amount or even less than purchasing a traditional car. The book describes each component in detail - electric motor, battery, controller, charger, and chassis - and provides step-by-step instructions on how to put them all together.

A complete source chapter shows you where to find each component for building an electric car, or a full-service shop that will convert your car for you.

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Second Edition, covers:

• EV vs. Internal Combustion Engine Overview
• Environmental and Energy Savings
• EV Evolution since the First Electric Car
• Current Purchase and Conversion Cost
• Chassis Frame and Design
• Today's Best Motors
• Battery Discharging/Charging Styles
• Electrical Power Systems
• Licensing and Insurance Issues
• Driving
• Maintenance
• Electric Car Clubs and Associations
• Additional Resources

About the Authors:

Seth Leitman is currently President and Managing Member of the ETS Energy Store, LLC, which sells organic, natural and sustainable products for business and home use (from energy efficient bulbs to electric vehicle conversion referrals). He is the consulting editor for a series of upcoming titles called the "Green Guru Guides", which focus on implementing environmentally friendly technologies and making them work for you.

Bob Brant was the author of the first edition of Build Your Own Electric Vehicle in 1993, and, some might say he was ahead of his time in his passion to convert to electric. Bob grew up in New York City, got a BSEE, and worked on NASA projects such as Apollo, Lunar Excursion Module and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. Seth Leitman and everyone at McGraw-Hill would like to think of this updated edition as a tribute to Bob and other forward thinkers like him.