Fixing Cars

ECOS - Electric Cars Of Springfield will convert your car to electric for $13,000.  Takes them about a week, though its about 12 weeks out if you were to schedule it now.

They also offer a turn-key sports car that commands Tesla type prices, but if you just want to get from point a to point b their conversion is quite the deal.

Perhaps instead of crushing the good clunkers that were traded in, the government could have had them all converted to electric.

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I read about the Prius UPS project probably a year or so ago and had some email correspondence with the brains behind the operation, Richard Factor. He decided to use his Prius as a backup power source, just as you would a backup generator when the lights go out. What I find most interesting is that this further substantiates that the DIY often leads what eventually gets produced by manufacturers. It will continue as more information becomes available online, and people research the subjects related to what they want to build. The old email archives like gm_ecm provided collaboration and exchanging of ideas. Some of them electrical engineers talked about how to build circuitry to utilize the wideband oxygen sensors that were found in “lean burn” Honda Civics from California to use in race cars and performance applications. Now several entire companies that employee hundreds and thousands of workers have been the result of such projects.

I find it fascinating to see things where people hack and build what they think would be cool. When I was young I remember opening a christmas present on christmas eve only to have taken it apart less than 24 hours after opening it. I had to know how it worked, and since then I’ve always been fascinated by projects or hobbies that exist in basements and garages.

I also wrote about the chocolate powered race car where its becoming a very effective way for corporations to do product development. The schools provide an atmosphere in which students are challenged to come up with unique ideas. Not only do they become familiar with how the companies operate and incorporate new technology but they potentially make good relationships with potential employers.