Here are some books and movies that I recommend.
Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Bob Brant
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I call this book the bible; it’s that good. Written by Bob Brant in the 90s this book covers everything you want to know about designing and building your own electric vehicle. If you are thinking about building an EV from scratch or just converting a vehicle this book is a must have in the garage. In October 2008 the second edition was published with updated information.
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Electric-Vehicle/dp/0830642315 |
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SVO: Powering Your Vehicle With Straight Vegetable Oil by Forest Gregg
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If Build Your Own Electric Vehicle is the bible of electric car conversions SVO: Powering Your Vehicle With Straight Vegetable Oil is the bible for running a diesel engine on straight vegetable oil (SVO). This book dives deep into the theory and operation of modern diesel engines and does it all with vegetable oil in mind. If you want to run a vehicle on SVO and have questions on theory, conversion, filtering or the performance of a SVO vehicle this book is a must.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/shopping/detail.aspx?itemnumber=3837 |
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An Inconvenient Truth
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The silver screen, and now DVD, adaptation of US Senator Al Gore’s lecture on global climate change and the future of the planet earth. This film is a deep and emotional look at our planet and what is happening with our climate. Senator Gore was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for his lectures and this documentary.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/ |
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Who Killed the Electric Car
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Who killed the electric car? Was it the car companies? Big oil? The consumer? This film investigates the introduction and subsequent elimination of GM’s EV1 and other electric vehicles of the 1990s and what caused their demise.
http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/ |
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Everything’s Cool
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A documentary following a small group of global warming lecturers and the American perspective on golbal warming from the years 2004 to 2007. As global events unfold in the United States and abroad, American citizens and the government start to react to the changing climate.
http://www.everythingscool.org/ |
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