Yessir – the car now has a real, bona-fide, 100% genuine electric motor in it! We also talk about the intricacies of some of the less-sexy parts of an Electric Vehicle – the brake vacuum pump, the ceramic heater, the battery pack cutoff switch and the motor adaptor plate.

www.zapworld.com Zap electric cars and electric scooters; 2009

www.ForkenSwift.com – Here’s the Forkenswift’s motor being spun up (and down, and up, and down) with a used golf cart controller. (Thanks to the EVDL folks for help with connecting the oddball Curtis.) Apologies for the poor vid quality – this was shot with a 20 year-old camera. Titles are hard to read in some places, so here they are 1. Another Forkenswift milestone… 2. First CONTROLLED electric power-up 3. No more welded jumper cables, like last time… 4. This time we’re hooked up to a …

www.ForkenSwift.com – First power-up of the freshly installed forklift hydraulic pump motor in our beer budget, low speed, Geo Metro electric vehicle conversion. — Project ForkenSwift is an electric car conversion made using parts from a Suzuki Swift, Geo Metro, Baker electric forklift and a golf cart. http

Home handyman Gavin Shoebridge has made his own electric car from parts that he has fitted into an old 1987 Mitsubishi Tredia. 12 Deep cycle batteries, an electric motor and some electronic bits and bobs – a little bit of research – he now has a car that can cruise around without the need to fill up at the gas station. He was getting sick of paying for gas every week. Good on ya Gav – we expect more people to do similar. He has video’s of how he did it on YouTube …

www.ForkenSwift.com – Overdue (but waaaay under budget) the car is now registered as an EV and is legally on the road. Project ForkenSwift is an electric car conversion made using parts from a Suzuki Swift, Geo Metro, Baker electric forklift and a golf cart.