ICE to electric conversion...

[khurdp]

Hello,
are there any folks interested in electric conversion on this newsgroup.... there should be but was checking....

I have been reading books, websites etc.. - all seem to say the same thing about conversion - using expensive components.

I am pretty sure there are many people like me whose needs are sufficed by a vehicle that does a range of 50-60 miles at upto 40 mph. This kind of vehicle I think should be possible with used motors. These books talk about electric motors being able to outlive the life of most vehicles yet advice not using used motors, I don't understand why. Does anybody have more details on mating various kinds of motors(possible & impossible) to transmissions.

Also, does anybody know of any books etc where controller design is discussed so as to be able to build a controller.

thank you,
Prasad