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Do I have a story to tell you! 17 years ago, my wife Jane and I bought some land and built our own house on it. We then set out to power our new home with alternative energy. First, we figured out how to build solar panels and then we moved on to wind generators. We needed lots of batteries, of course, to store all this free energy we were producing, but we couldn't afford brand new ones. So we had to get a little creative.
After some legwork and a lot of trial and error, we stumbled upon an amazing source of cheap batteries that worked great for storing energy and powering our home. But we didn't stop there. As you will soon learn, using alternative energy becomes addictive and we had the bug pretty bad! So we next set eyes on our gas-guzzling car and truck...
Could we actually convert these vehicles to run off batteries instead of gasoline? Without knowing what we were doing, we decided to find out. After several months of experimenting and a lot of long days, we got everything to work. Then we started making a series of design improvements to increase the speed and cruising range.
Once we began driving our electric vehicles around town, our neighbors started showing up asking questions. They wanted us to teach them how to convert their own cars to electric.
So we sat down and wrote up all the things we had learned, creating a step-by-step set of plans that we could give out.
Within months, we started getting requests from people we...
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