Building Your Own With Electric Car Kits

I remember going to visit my mom at work one day last summer and seeing this little yellow thing that looked like a covered 3-wheel bike parked in a spot where cars are supposed to be parked. I asked my mom about it and of course she knew the person that owned it and she said it was an electric car.

I had heard of them but I had never seen one before. I asked the owner about it and she said she bought an electric car kit and she put it together herself with a little help from her husband. I thought the concept of an electric car kit was the craziest thing I had ever heard of until I was reminded of a purchase I had almost made several years before that.

When I was in college I originally wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Admittedly it wasn t I that wanted to be the engineer it was everyone else around me that wanted me to be the engineer. I eventually opted for the glamorous life of a writer but in my days of pursuing aerospace engineering I came frightfully close to buying a plane.

Not a model and certainly no t a 747. They sell small plane kits that you can build yourself and then you can fly around in it. They were actually very reasonably priced but a little too rich for a college student. So if you can sell a plane you can fly as a kit then why not an electric car kit?

Do It Yourself Cars

There is a company out of Maine that will sell you an electric car kit that you can drive around in that is powered by solar power. The car can do up to 25 miles per hour for up to 20 miles before it needs to be recharged. It can charge by solar power or by being plugged in and it is legal to be driven on the streets as well. Apparently they don t charge while you are driving in the sun as they need to be off to charge and they look a lot like old Model T Fords. But the technology is interesting none the less.

Electric car kits give you the chance to build your own car that you can actually drive around in and many electric car kits are legal to drive on the roads. While the kits vary in attainable speed and distance a charge will last one thing is for certain, if you can avoid paying at the pump by driving a do it yourself car then why not? The one I saw looked like fun to drive and it definitely can be parked anywhere.