Eco Steve Smith of Grand Valley wants to change the world. He grew up in Toronto and Brampton, and has lived in the Valley for five years.
When he was little, he had a remote control car. His dad would change the rechargeable batteries when they ran down and put the run-down batteries into the charger.
He asked his dad why they can’t do that with full sized cars. His father told him he didn’t know.
Five years ago, Smith started to research how to change cars to rechargeable electric cars. He found it wasn’t that difficult.
He checked out the prices the car companies were charging for an electric car. It was anywhere from $30,000 to
$60,000.
He realized they were charging this much because there is no maintenance, except to plug them in. So they last longer.
Two years ago, Smith started to change a regular car to an electric car.
Working one day per week in his driveway, he managed to do this in about a year. He doesn’t have a garage. His car will go about 100 km on each charge.
Recently, he has acquired a place to work in along with tools and a service bay. He told me it now takes about four weeks to convert a car.
He presently has eight cars he has been asked to convert.
He told me most of the parts he gets to do this job is free recycled materials. He can only change standard transmission cars at this time.
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