I wasn't exactly sure where to start this thread, but I figured here was as good a place as any. Hopefully I can find some other people with similar interests. First let me say I love Volvo's. They're not the perfect car, but no car is and out of their imperfections they are very very well engineered and built. There's not very many cars from this vintage that I would just turn the key and go on lets say a 400-800 mile trip without even thinking about it. I've wanted to do an EV conversion for some time (especially when gas was ridiculously priced) but due to time and finances have just never got around to it. After poking around on the internet it seems that most people convert econo-box cars. I was able to find one 240 sedan that someone was planning to do a build on though. So seeing that and knowing what I want to do I thought I surely can't be the only person that wants a well built car that is powered by alternative means. So that's why I'm posting here in hopes of getting a few more people together that have interest. It's always nice to have someone to bounce ideas off of in the design process. I've registered with a DIY EV site but as I've said before it's mostly Japanese cars on there. Here's the link to my post. I hope to see some of you there or maybe start a new section on the Brickboard for EVr's all together.
http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php/yet-another-diy-ev-conversion-but-35597.html

Thanks!

Nick
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Current Cars- 1993 245 178K; 1990 780 250K Saab APC; 1973 450SLC 40K, Converted D-Jet to Megasquirt - - Past Cars: 2004 S60 RIP; 1987 780 280K