Is it possible to buy a hybrid or electric conversion kit for a conventional gasoline engine car?

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1. j.srikant says:

   February 17, 2010 at 2:47 pm

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2. xometsfan says:

   February 17, 2010 at 3:10 pm

   yea. you can. hope this helps.
3. Smiley says:

   February 17, 2010 at 3:54 pm

   If you are shopping BMW’s, you are not worried about MPG. It doesn’t just the MPG because if its a performance engine, you will be buying the highest octane gas by mandate of the maker, or else the engine pings to an early death which might the goal if you want to get a new engine.

   Here is reality. Yes, you can put in an electric or hybrid engine, but it will have to be retrofit, as there is no such thing as plug and play on car engines, even from the same maker. So it will take a lot mechanical rigging and working to get it in the car, much less tuned and reliable. I would expect to pay a good mechanic four times what it would cost to replace the engine, with the idea that it could go up to eight times depending on what gets involved once he digs into it. So instead of $3k, you might want to have between $12-24k just for the conversion minus the price of the car.

   Here is the other part and scary engineering that you will get into is where to put the battery bank, what kind of batteries will you buy. If you want good batteries, expect to chunk in another $20k. But it doesn’t stop there, what about the braking system that generates some of the electricity of the hybrid? What about the computer system that operates the engine and dc motors? Get out your wallet for that too…

   So once you get done, your near $60k in a conversion, minus the price of the car, you might not have it working. Just look at the common issues with electric cars http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqWgEK1EFb2vwPcUKTPSW5h0.Bd.;_ylv=3?qid=20090610220941AAokgel

   Why not just go buy a Prius as a donor and save yourself the engineering. Or better yet, just go buy a hybrid ready to roll with e-z financing?
4. Nata T says:

   February 17, 2010 at 4:47 pm

   no way, the cost to convert will twice the cost of just buying a hybrid. All the links are for scams that don’t work or are way to expensive.