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The main reason that converted electric cars use a transition is that it's an easy part to hook the electric motor up to so with a rear wheel drive vehicle like a pickup truck or a vehicle that has a 4 wheel drive version that you can bolt the rear suspension and drive train in to the car you have, then you have a really simple drive train with the motor connecting to a drive shaft stub connected to the rear differentail, only draw back with this set up is that it has been pointed out that some cars don't have a strong enough rear end to handle an electric motor, but either way the electric motor is going to take up alot less space then a gas engine and transmision grafted in to the rear of a normaly front wheel drive car.
Also, once you take the gas engine out of the front, what are you going to do with that large empty space? seems like a great space for batteries to me.
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