Bloomin' Flower Cards » electric car http://www.bloomin.com/blog The seed paper people! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:57:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Electric Cars are part of the Solution: even homemade jobbies. http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2009/10/21/electric-cars-are-part-of-the-solution-even-homemade-jobbies/ http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2009/10/21/electric-cars-are-part-of-the-solution-even-homemade-jobbies/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:19:21 +0000 Bloomin' Flower Cards http://www.bloomin.com/blog/?p=443 About three years ago I decided I wanted an electric car. It was then I realized than none were available, well except for golf cart type slow-little “cars”. I looked into building one out of my wife Sues 1973 VW bug, but I just didn’t have what it takes to figure it all out.  It appears that affordable production electric cars are just around the corner – finally. Please hurry up guys!

Here is a fellow Boulderite Jim Kasik in his homemade electric car. He and the car look good huh! This car is/was a 1967 Triumph Spitfire.

The past and the future all in one.

The past and the future, all in one.

Jim and his buddies built this car over a couple of months this summer for less that $10,000.

There's batteries in the front and back of this rig.

There's batteries in the front and back of this rig.

After tax credits, I think he said he will have $2500 into it, that’s right, the government should be crediting him back $7500.

I love the chrome plated ELECTRIC plate.

I love the chrome plated ELECTRIC plate.

This car has went over 75 mph on batteries. Jim said it has a range of up to about 40 miles on a charge.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD – GANDHI

Bloomin is always hauling stuff around town. Hopefully we will soon be doing it in an electric vehicle that is being charged by the 144 solar panels on our roof.

- Tom Noyes

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