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Old 10-28-2010, 10:27 PM   #4 (permalink)
Automcdonough
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Good luck, I'm having a hell of a time putting together a decent conversion for $10k and that does not include labor or the donor car. But that is my goal.. customer drops off car and $10k and picks it up later as an EV. It's a lot of money, def a hard sell. Customers I expect would be enthusiasts working on classics or other cars which would not ever be commercially sold in our lifetimes.

My personal conversion is going under budget so far, but that is through heavy use of ebay and craigslist, then on to DIY motor controllers and whatnot. Not a good strategy for business, gotta be able to to just bulk buy some part inventory. Some of this DIY stuff I'm considering jumping into the mfg arena to sell to DIY'ers out there as some of this stuff is being sold for waaaay too much $$. They're killing us here.
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