Electric car conversion kits are becoming widely sought after now. This is mainly due to the two main factors of an increasingly uncertain economy, and the ridiculous and rising price of fuel costs all over the globe. Most people who have thought about running their car on alternative energy are not really in a position to go and fork out the $ 20,000- $ 40 000 that it would cost to buy a brand new hybrid vehicle, although they are nice.
The electric car kit, has some times been mixed up with the hydrogen car kit, or "water 4 gas" kits that you see around the internet a lot, although the two types of technology are completely different.
There are lots of advantages to using electric conversion over any other method of alternative fueling for your car. In short converting your car to run as an electric will mean lower if not zero carbon emissions, no more expensive gas costs (or at least very minimal, depending on your conversion method), and not to mention the positive cultural effect that it has for people to be using electric powered vehicles.
The main problem with converting your car to run as an electric hybrid was the cost, costing anywhere from $ 8000- $ 12 000 in the past to achieve the change over. That is now a thing of the past fortunately, and there is now the opportunity to convert your existing car for only a few hundred dollars. If you are interested in doing this, just be mindful that you need to have some basic knowledge of how to do simple mechanical work, and also you would need to be OK with following step by step instructions.
The concerns about how and if you should install technology such as an electric car conversion kit is really a toss up between going ahead and giving it a shot, or facing the unsteady economy and rising fuel costs which have been said to be going to rise to $ 7 or $ 8 potentially within the next 10-20 years. Although that is fairly far off from where we stand right now, it is almost a certainty that oil prices are not ever going to come down again.
