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Electric car conversion kits are growing in popularity. Many car owners are starting to realize that converting their vehicles to run on electricity can save them a lot of money on gas and help the environment at the same time.

By building your own electric car you will:

1. Slash your gas costs to zero.
2. Get massive IRS refunds for driving an environmentally-friendly vehicle.
3. Start enjoying a smoother, quitter ride.
4. Stop emitting greenhouse gas and toxic fumes and help save the earth.

To turn a vehicle into an EV, you will need to take out the internal combustion engine and replace it with the electric motor.

Some other parts you need to install are: rechargeable batteries, power controller and power conductors, which can be found in any auto-shop. The best cars to retrofit are light weight vehicles with space for batteries. Even if you have little mechanical skills, you can still turn your car to run on electricity, if you follow a set of detailed plans.

After the conversion you will be able to drive 100 - 200 miles on a single charge and travel at about 55 mph. The technology to run an automobile on electricity has been proven to work, but up until now it was too expensive to use.

Paying a mechanic to turn an existing vehicle into an electric car can cost $3,000-$8,000. Fortunately recently many diy electric car conversion manuals have been introduced to the market, which offer step-by-step instructions on how to easily convert any vehicle to run on electric power and save tons of money on gas. This way the conversion will cost you less than $300(parts included).

Do you want to completely eliminate your gas bill?

Chose the best Electric Car Conversion Kit and build your very own Electric Vehicle!

The Cure for the Highway Hi-Fi Blues

The other morning I was driving to an appointment, inserting a CD into the player, and I couldn't help smiling. I was thinking about my father and his career as a mechanical design engineer for RCA. After the war, he helped design the innards of the first record players RCA mass produced.

Remember the plastic cylinder you stacked 45's onto, that slipped over the 78 spindle, and dropped records down one at a time to be played? Well, my dad holds the patent on that handy little device. Because of his ingenuity, teens all over America could dance or make out uninterrupted for a whole evening.

One of the neatest things he worked on at RCA was a record player for cars. The year was 1958. Our '57 Plymouth Fury was one of only two test cars in the whole country retro-fitted with a record player. It played 45's only and was mounted upside down beneath the dash, just over the transmission hump. You first had to push a stack of records up into place, and then the diamond-tipped arm came in from underneath to play them.

The record player was set in a terrific suspension system, allowing you to drive over railroad tracks and potholes without causing Peggy Lee to skip a beat. I remember how cool I felt as we drove through town secretly playing the Everly Brothers on a record player and not the radio. "You watch, in a few years ever car in the country will have one of these in it," my dad would tell anyone who would listen. "This is going to be big."

Chrysler Corporation, RCA's partner in the project, went on to feature the "Highway Hi-Fi" in their Plymouth and DeSoto models in 1960 and 1961. But after only two years on the market the whole concept of car record players quickly fizzled out, mostly for technical reasons.

My dad was pretty disappointed. His invention wasn't holding up to the rigors of daily use in a moving automobile. (For a brief history of car record players: ).

So how has the market treated your genius? Have you and your design team ever worked long and hard on a project, really put your heart into it, only to have it bomb in the market place, or get buried by senior management for any number of good or bad reasons?

Here's my real question: how do you keep your own and your team's morale level and creativity from sagging when that happens? How do you keep your team from singing the Highway Hi-Fi blues or getting as cynical as Dilbert?

T., one of my coaching clients, created a fresh vision of success for her human factors software design team after several marketing disappointments. Their previous two designs were not embraced by customers due to financial considerations despite the high quality of their end product.

They were beginning to feel that they weren't making a difference. Her plan was to separate their sense of achievement from the market's response to their final designs.

She accomplished this by emphasizing her team's overall value to the company and to their industry as a whole. In other words, she shifted their paradigm for "making a difference"—based on actual facts that they weren't seeing because of their single-minded focus on the end result.

One of the things she did was to demonstrate to her team how they gave the company a high degree of credibility in the industry. Their forward thinking was gradually having an impact, and she reminded them of this fact as often as she could.

For instance, whenever one of her people went to an industry conference, she had that person give a report to the whole team on how their ideas were being slowly embraced by others. They really loved hearing that, she said.

So the skill I'm stressing here for maintaining morale in the fickle world of new product development is to broaden your team's definition of success. Shake up their paradigm.

Try to identify the actual value your team is adding, such as giving the company credibility in its industry, a reputation for innovation, being perceived as a leader of technological change within the company, etc. These perceptions alone can attract new customers and qualified new employees.

So with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, I can see how my dad's work with the primitive Highway Hi-Fi in-car audio system paved the way for my simple act of inserting a plastic disk into a CD player while driving. He helped open a technological door.

In 1965, just four years after the car record player, Ford introduced the 8-track system into their new models. You know the rest.

About the Author

Joe DiSabatino helps individusl leaders and organizations build high levels of employee commitment and morale by creating high-trust work environments. For more information and support visit: www.phoenixleaderrship.com

Do they make a roots style supercharger for the ford 2V SOHC 4.6l V8?

dose any one make a roots style supercharger for the 98 to 2004 4.6l ford i have a 03 crown vic or can i retro fit one from a cobra.i am doing up it dose have the pi heads it was a police car its got 96000 i plan to though redo it this next spring

Yes they do. Check out Kenne Bell and Tork Tech. Not a roots, but twin screw style, close enough though. To fit a Cobra's you will need the 4v heads and the lower intake manifold and ecu. It's alot more cost effective to go with the before mentioned. The Kenne Bell 2.2L is a great supercharger.

2011 Buick Regal
Burt Reynolds has left the building; there are no more W-cars to kick around. Buick has swept almost all the dusty past from its showrooms—but in an odd Taurus-like move, has dubbed its savvy new front-drive, mid-size sedan with the retro Regal badge.

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