Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Third Edition Paperback – 29 Jan. 2013

A very good book but tends to repeat things within same paragraph

Very good information in the book ,being brought up in the metric system of engineering ,took a while to get use to theImperial units of measurement

I enjoyed reading this book, it gave me knowledge and understanding of electrical vehicle history and development. It also inspires me to commence a project on a classic car electrical conversion..

Very literal needs more picture examples

If you are looking for a strictly technical book that describes kerb loading, anti dive chassis design, circuitry, motor systems etc then there some of that in this book. Useful in that it has links to various sites that supply new ev kit from motors and controllers to batteries. However it delves a bit much, for me, into the history of the electric car, the green initiatives and examles of current ev units from the main car makers. I don't need persuading that electric is a good idea and so much of the first two thirds of this is dedicated to argument for and counter argument that essentially means nothing to me. About a quarter of the book is actually useful to me, as a long time self build car enthusiast.If you want a history and reasoning for ev cars as well as some tech info then it's well written and full of info and i would class it as worth the money.. Some very useful math and a load of charts. The kindle version has live net links to other sites for info and suppliers. I have read it twice now and on my third currently.Loses one star as i wanted a more heavily technical publication which i suspect would in fact not be as large a book overall.

Dissatisfied

The book gives some good introductory information about EV technology but it does not go any further than that.The use of US imperial units is very frustrating especially because the equations that were used to built the tables or come up with a mentioned value are not provided.Also it is the first time I have seen equations written using words instead of universally recognised symbols.Finally in quite a few cases the writer refers to an equation, a table or a schematic that does not exist in the book.Quite confusing

I liked the book as it covered many aspects of E.V. conversion that I wanted to know in great detail, however for the average reader it was a little wordy and could be hard to understand. It also was a little long for my liking and only had American units (i.e. imperial) whereas in Britain we tend to use metric units, so unless you are familiar with American units then it might prove to be a challenge to understand. despite these downfalls if you are dedicated to converting to electric this should be a worthwhile read if read in short concise bits. Also I would say that the book is very well split up in to convenient chapters making it easy to navigate through the book.