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I happened to borrow the Convert It book from David. I startd reading it over the weekend
this would be a great book to really read through and gain information on how to build an EV, especially
for those who are completely new to the Ev world such as myself.

As it makes sence to me " Don't replace your car- Recycle it"

Convert it; explains why Ev's are so much more cleaner and more simple than the Internal combustion engine.

I got to go to my first EAASV meeting yesterday, and it was rather interesting.
I obtained a lot of information and understood quite a bit by just listening and talking to some EV folks.
Richard Hatfield who was the main spokesperson for the meeting has quite an interesting background in the
automotive industry and EV's of 30 years experience (if i'm not mistaken).
There was this EV magazine that got passed around and when I took a look at it and read some of it I just started

I wanted to ride the Lectra over to the EAA meeting... y'know, show it off, etc. ...but... On my way over the chain broke.

I've had a couple instances where I go to take off and the chain slips off the sprocket and there's no power. It's very surprising when that happens 'cause I'm accustomed to this bike having lots of get up and go power, and when this happens it's zero. It's happened twice, the last time two days ago on my way to work.

does anyone know where a 48 volt 10 amp ,E-MAX battery charger can be bought ,or even 2 and I will keep a backup. the charger model E07-0020b-usa . if there is such a thing , E-mail me at rick-peg [at] hotmail.com with the happy news that will allow me to charge up again.

Hi,

One of my coworkers has his last day at work today - and he's one who has been very interested in EV's and following my progress on the Lectra conversion. That makes today the last day he could easily see the Lectra, so I rode it in today. Um, gosh, it's 45 degrees out with dense fog ... and for example my helmet kept fogging up, and at every stop I had to be a manual windshield wiper, wiping off the fog with my hands. But I made it in.

i recently bought a very nice looking sunbird electric scooter at a yard sale the back hub motor was full of water i am good with tools but never have worked on anything electric only gas powered i need a motor and a ball park about what they cost i only paid $50 for the scooter and everything works except the motor which i know is major but the scooter itself looks new figured it was worth what i paid the way it is, can anyone help where to get parts thanks for all your help!!!!!!

The question I've been working with the last couple weeks - other than Holiday activities that is - has been what to do for the dashboard on the Lectra. The Lectra design has a piece of molded plastic which kinda sorta maybe resembles in an odd way the gas tank in a gas motorcycle. If you squint your eyes just the right way, that is. It woulda been obvious to reuse that piece to cover that section of the bike, but I've been looking at a different idea.

There are many New Under $200 electric powered scooters but when you add in a real chain drive and pneumatic tires, one of the choices would be from Razor. I believe that the E-100 has a solid rear tire and needs to be kicked forward before the motor can propel the scooter. They now offer it with a real chain drive and the belt drive gotten rid of because of the breaking factor.

Well, it's sort of mounted! I'm not going to bolt the motor mount to the motor platform until I have the front sprocket on the motor shaft - that way I can do a better job of lining things up (well that's the plan anyway).