http://blog.mlive.com/citpat/2008/05...ke_charge.html
Mr. Nicholls stopped buy my place of work and showed us the saturn that the recently converted to electric. They used the stock manual trans with a 19 hp electric motor and 18 lead acid batteries (1200 lbs). It's a brush motor with a Curtis controller (I think, it was upside down). They haven't pushed it to check the range yet, but he said they have taken several highway trips from Jackson to Leslie and back (about 30 mile round trip). It can supposedly reach highway speeds, but accelerates slowly. They have a vacuum pump system for the brakes and such in the trunk. There's a lawn mower battery for the 12v devices that is charged off a conventional alternator that is belt driven of the shaft between the motor and trans.
I think it's great that they are doing this here in Jackson! They are currently converting 5 other cars, A Ford tempo, other Saturns and Vw jetta.
They are there to give help if your doing your own conversion; like machining parts, to selling full conversion kits, you can bring in your car and they will convert it, or you can buy a car that they already converted for you.