It's great stuff to see more and more people exploring these things.
If you guys are interested in the DIY EV conversions,
http://www.kiwiev.com/ is a great journal account of a guy converting a car, from buying it to getting it certified - which should happen on Feb 4th! Gav is a good guy that I have communicated with some. He bought most of his parts from a company right near me called EV America.
Maybe greenflight can give us some nitty gritty details about his conversion.