I%26#039;ve heard that any car with fossil fuel combustion type engine can be converted to electric car. Is this true If this is true how would a persong go about finding out how to do this?

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You could but it would be ridiculously expensive and complicated, and altogether inefficient. Which would be counterproductive considering that efficiency is the main goal of an electric powered car. As of now the most efficient vehicles are hybrids such as Toyota Prius, though more efficient methods of vehicle power are being researched, and hopefully will soon be available. But if you are just wanting to convert a gas powered car to an electric, just for fun, and you have alot of money, i guess anything is possible.

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Ok, I just asked because I don%26#039;t think think alternative engine technologies are just the stuff of science fiction. We just haven%26#039;t heard much about them because the oil industry doesn%26#039;t want us to

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• It%26#039;s possible, but unless you%26#039;re an engineer or know one who%26#039;s willing to do it for you it%26#039;s unlikely to occur.
  
  If the question is can you convert a car into a hybrid that too is possible, but difficult and not likely to occur without a knowledgable engineer.
  
  If you want to convert your vehicle to using alcohol that%26#039;s also possible. In fact this is more possible than what you%26#039;re asking. There are conversion kits available commercially to pull off an alcohol conversion off. I%26#039;d still have at least a mechanic available to help you.
  
  Good luck.
• Yup, just take out the old engine and put a new elec one in + a shed load of batteries.
• This is not true, unless you consider replacing the entire engine, and likely the transmission, too.
• Bwaaahaaahaaahaaa! Thanks for the laugh...I needed it!
  
  No, sipmly not true. Electric vehicles are made ultra light weight....lotta plastic and such goes into their construction. They have to be light-weight, just so they can carry around those mamoth batteries.
  
  But tell you what...it was a really fun image of switching our 1968 3/4 ton all steel Ford truck to an electric engine. I wonder just how mountainous the battery would have to be, to make that truck roll, and pull the flatbed trailer loaded with 8 tons of hay, or pull the four horse trailer, with the two draft horses (weighing a ton each) down the road?
  
  Besides, why would you want to switch to batteries, that cause more mining of the earth, rather than keeping a much older vehicle on the road, that can be run with your own homebrewed biofuel?
  
  ~Garnet
  Homesteading/Farming over 20 years