Teenager built an electric mazda pickup truck
 

From abg: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/01...-pickup-truck/

This is pretty interesting it not necessarily for the fact that it's a truck, but that he went out and just did it...I bet darin's jealous he didn't do it all those centuries ago when he was a teenager, :thumbup:

SVOboy -

$*@:confused:#&$^:(*@#&$^:mad: kid. Probably learned to ski when he was 3 years old too.

CarloSW2

That is awesome!

He needs to join the forums and make a build thread, hehe. :thumbup:

Oh man, I didn't even think of emailing him, :p

gee.... i wonder where he got $6000 from. His parents? I should ask them for a loan. :D

Being a lifegaurd it says somewhere.

Hey, glad to see you found my story. Just joined here.

Anyway, yeah, I paid for the conversion myself... I lifeguarded for a while and saved up money for it. Adds up if you don't spend it all on stuff like movies and video games! :rolleyes:

P.S.- I don't know how to ski either. :D

Absolutely amazing Greenflight. I am totally jealous of your do-it-yourself talents.

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.

greenflight -

Whew! That was close. I saw a good picture of the engine bay. The workmanship is verrrrrry clean. Thanks for stepping up to bat for the planet and stuff.

Great Job :thumbup: !

CarloSW2