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How to Make Your Very Own Hybrid Car

Learn how to make your own, cheap, eco-friendly vehicle.

What You Need:

  • A Bicycle Seat
  • 4 Wheels of a suitable size. 12x12 or 13x13
  • 1 Electric Scooter Battery
  • 1 Electric Scooter Motor
  • 5 plastic tubes as long as you can get em
  • 1 Bike chain
  • 1 Bike gear
  • 2 small poles

Drill a hole through one of the pieces of plastic.

  1. Cut the piece of plastic to 27” long and keep the width the same as it is now
  2. Now drill a hole through the very end of a tube and cut it to 25” long
  3. Cut a square on the sides of the 2 holes on the first piece of plastic
  4. Now put the second plastic tube in the first one and put a metal screw in the 4 holes to put them together
  5. Now add a nut to the end of the metal screw to keep it together
  6. Now do the same for the other side

Now you have your chassis. Next you will be working with the wheels and the motor.

Now stick the gear inside the plastic tube on the front.

  1. Put the motor right behind it
  2. Put the chain on the gear and the motor
  3. Put the battery pack and hook the wires to the motor from the battery pack
  4. Now stick a pole through the middle of the tube and hook the wheels to it
  5. Make sure your pole is through your gear tight enough the gear wont move without the pole moving
  6. Do the same on the back, just no gear
  7. Now put a pole on the top of the first pole
  8. Make it as long as you want your steering wheel. (actually you are just going to use little scrap piece from your tubes for a steering stick.).
  9. Now buy your body from any store you want to online. I will not tell you the store I used, because what would bet he fun of getting your own unique body?
  10. Cut a hole through it to have your 2 levers
  11. Have 1 a stop and 1 a go
  12. Finally attach any rope to the stop one and put it next to the armrest of the body
  13. Then attach a rope for the go lever and put it to the left of you
  14. Paint your body however you like

Ill give you a hint… Do not do flames! Do anything besides that.

Well… You now have your own electric car… Here is mine:

And that's my dad

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Comments (2)
#1 by I hate fake posts!, Mar 20, 2008
First off that vehicle in the pic, isn't an electric vehicle, it is run off an old scooter motor. Second that is not your vehicle, it is a Moonbeam. The man is the picture isn't your dad, his name is Jory Squibb. He actually build the vehicle. Check out his website http://mysite.verizon.net/vze6omtd/jorysquibb/index.html. Don't listen to this loser, who thinks he knows something. Btw the above "plans" is the most stupid idea, I have ever heard. Why not just ride a scooter?
#2 by Wordwriter, Jul 11, 2008
I went to the link mentioned above and saw the same picture. I have to agree with the above comment - This man is a fake!
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