Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
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Want to build an electric car ? Not real easy. - I think Bob Brant really wants to help you build an electric vehicle. I feel, however that his engineering background causes him to ",talk down", to the reader, who thinks ", It can t be really as complex as all this ! All these formulas , etc ! ", How do we know the ",flux level", for a motor we buy at a garage sale ? I am too old to get an engineering degree !Lots of ",shade tree", mechanics ( like me ) will have to look further for more practical information.Such as - a 10 HP motor in a Geo Metro will be fine for trips to the grocery store but no good for highway use. Also errors have crept in, and the schematic diagrams are incomplete and puzzling. Of course, the book was published nine years ago, and technology has advanced in the EV industry, as in everything else
Add this to your library - Usefull information about EV. This give you some wide idea about electric cars. It s a good book for your technical library specially if you r going to build one EV and are a beginer.
Very Useful Info, lots of great tables and charts - This is really an informative book. Except for the politically-charged chapter on saving the planet from the evils of the internal-combustion engine, I really enjoyed it. One problem the reader might have is that Electric Vehicle technology advances so rapidly that some of the information is dated. All in all, it is certainly worth the price!
Excellent Book - This is an exceptional book for anyone looking to get the initial know-how on how to convert a gas vehicle to an electric vehicle (EV). It s full of resources to help you find the parts you are looking for to do your EV project, and it actually does a conversion in the last chapter. There are a couple things you don t hear much about in the book, such as the insidious re-wiring of the dash board, and it sort of glazes over a couple minor issues, but all in all, it s the best resource I ve found yet for converting to an EV. The history buffs will enjoy the detailed history of the EV, and if you work for NASA, there are a ton of great physics problems (15, I think) to keep your brain moving. Don t let the math scare you, I discovered that eyeballing it works most of the time, and if it didn t work, I would just pull out the old calculator and scratch pad. My advice would be that even if you aren t planning on Building your own EV, you should buy this book. It s full of great stuff.
Not too bad, but I don t think it is for beginners - If you can t do maths a large part of the book will be greek to you. Many things are repeated over and over. Even exact lines are repeated. It looks like the book could have been a little bit smaller if all the repetitions where taken out. If you don t know electronic stuff it might also be a problem for you. When the author gives a definition of a component he uses other components to describe it, but if you don t know what the other components are you will not understand the definition. If I didn t read the posts on the EV list I would probably not be able to understand half of the book. The book also uses the American system in the maths. If you are not American it is even more difficult to understand. I can t find the age of the book, but it looks like it is rather old.