Depending upon where you live there are numerous electric car clubs that help with conversions or other work required to build an electric car. Rather than expect to get step by step instructions in an answer here it may be more realistic to expect some direction.

Below are some sources you may find helpful: http://ecomodder.com/blog/cheap-diy-electric-car/
http://www.evalbum.com/2340
http://web.archive.org/web/*sa_/http://www.solarvan.co.uk
http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/electric-car-conversion.html

love2hat corruption is our gov. giving o-zone 500mill of tax money and sending his jobs elsewhere
He received a 500 mill. grant to build a car and hes doing It overseas what corruption
I was a grant not a loan

he did, but Toyota I believe, made a deal with Bush so they didn’t have too.

in addison i want it recharge it self without plug in an outlet.

You can buy a Diesel Truck or SUV and convert it to be able to run on Vegetable Oil. There are companies that specialize in that type of thing and it also may give you better gas mileage as well.

Thats something to consider doing.

I wanted a build go cart with an electric motor.
A motor like the ones with a generator, so when i get do i dont have to keep recharging the batteries for a long period of time.
Just like the knew electric cars coming out in 2009.
Advice and links needed

All the new electric cars need external charging unless they have a gas or diesel motor on-board as well.

It’s true that each of these electric cars has a form of battery charging that uses the forward motion of the car to charge the batterys.

That type of recharging is thru what is called regenerative braking. In regenerative braking, the motor(s) act as the brakes when braking is needed & simultaneously as a generator to replace some of the battery’s charge.

With regenerative braking it’s unlikely that you will obtain a perfect balance between charging & discharging. You’ll need some type of external charging unit to replace the missing energy.

Unless you travel downhill as much as going uphill, you wont replace all the energy it took to go up that hill with regenerative braking.

some wires are burnd and mexed causing short i am not electrician - are there charts for wiring or maps ar ready made wires for this mdel or should i take out the wires to the electrician or all the car

One option is to visit your local auto parts junk yard and find a similar vehicle that has the same wiring you are describing. Then cut the complete cable and connector harness out of the junk yard vehicle and use it to repair your vehicle. You’ll need a strong sharp pair of "diagonal" wire cutters. Take your camera with you to photograph the vehicle wiring before you cut out the cables etc.

Find your local junk yards and get used parts online at http://www.junkyarddog.com http://www.car-parts.com

i have already built the car but my teacher is making us write down the safety rules of building the car!

As for the electrical system we usually have a fuse in the middle of the battery pack and a circuit breaker. For the car it self we usually beef up the suspension for the added weight of the batteries and as long as you don’t modify anything you will be ok.

I read somewhere that Thomis Edison built an electric car capable of some impressive number for both speed and miles traveled. Would any of you have any information on this? I’ve been able to find information about him working with Henry Ford but nothing that describes his car or anything of the sort.

This is just another one of those "Gas prices are too high, lets make people think the government can do something about it" things. No, Edison never made a car.

The Buckeye Bullet reached 314.958 mph. The 314 mph qualifies as a new US record in one direction. I love the stuff that we do at our Universities…Michigan building solar cars that travel across the country on solar and Ohio State building 314 mph electric car. I just want to plug American Innovation. Please make some comments.

I was going to say "did it fall off a cliff or something?" Heh. Universities do some amazing things. We need to improve education in this country so that more of our kids can excel at the university level.

314mph electric… awesome.

Are there any eye-catching hazards in building an electric car with lithium-ion batteries? For example, can one get electrocuted by the batteries during construction?

If so, then how?

And generally, are Li-ion batteries "safe" when unexposed to high temperature/fire?

Batterys for the drive train will be connected in series which adds the voltage of each cell. Electric cars can have DC voltages ranging from 70VDC to several hundred volts.

High DC voltages definately represent an electrocution hazard and more so as they are DC.

Routing of wires and adjacent batteries should be done so as to minimize voltage potentials. Consider a straight line of batteries each adjacent cell is 12 VDC. Now place that same bank of batteries in a U shape and the adjacent batteries at the ends of the U can be several hunderd volts.

Most EV’s I have seen and investigated use deep cuycle lead acid batteries. 6Vdc batteries are prefferred as they have more capacity than 12VDC batteries. 12Vdc batteries are used where space is at a premium. A compact pick up like a GMC Sonoma or Ford Ranger make ideal conversion platforms as there is plenty of room under the bed to place batteries a while keeping the center of gravity low.

I live in Mass and last summer I looked into building an EV conversion. What stopped me from doing so was the Mass registry of Motor Vehicles and State Police Safety Inspection. Turns out I would not be able to legally put a home build EV conversion (from gas) on the road in Mass.

I could start with an existing EV like an EV Ranger and rework it. But yanking a gas engine out and electrifying a vehicle presented more legal aspects than technical. My insurance company also had an issue with the conversion process . So definately investigate before you start building anything.

Also check out the book "How to build an electric car"

to sell in the U.S. Do you think that they will keep the price down so people can afford them or will they do like GM said before and try to sell them for 100,000 dollars?

GM is not interested in selling a low priced car/s. They will gladly sell you a car provided the profit margin is there.
So while the China made electric car may be cheaply built, do not expect it to be sold at a bargain price!
What many miss about why companies have things made in China is the EPA restrictions as well as OSHA rules. The workers on China are cheaper to employ, but the big savings is in not having to comply with EPA concerns and health issues of the workers.
So buy GM and kill a China-man. Poison their children and kill the rivers of the world.