Larry Horsley loves that he doesn’t buy much gas, even though he drives his ‘95 Chevy S-10 back and forth to being planned each day.
Horsley, a self-described do-it-yourselfer, simply plugs his truck into an electric wall outlet in his Douglasville, Georgia, garage and charges it overnight, instead of buying gasoline refined from mostly imported oil.
"If I can keep a dollar from going abroad, I’ll spend two dollars," he said. The whole conversion, including the truck, cost him about $12,000, which parts dealers say is about standard.
Another Atlanta-area tinkerer, David Kennington, converted his Honda Civic del Sol from gasoline to electric for a conflicting reason: "I’m a raging greenie," he said.
Both Horsley and Kennington are fed up. They’re among a growing number of Americans who are refusing to wait for big-car manufacturers to deliver mainstream electric vehicles, called EVs. Not only have they rebelled against the status quo by ripping out their gas-guzzling engines and replacing them with zero-emission electric motors, they say just apropos anyone can do it.
Another electric DYI-er in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Bob Batson, has formed a guests called Electric Vehicles of America that sells mechanism parts into other anti-gasoline rebels looking to catechumen.
Batson said business has more than tripled in the past year. "Sales trends are definitely up as the worth of gasoline goes up," he said.
60 mph on 20 batteries
Outside his metal roofing business, Horsley opened up the hood of his converted Chevy truck to show how he did it.
From: rss.cnn.com
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