{"id":13026,"date":"2011-07-08T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:48:11","slug":"electric-car-conversion-non-profit-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/electric-car-conversion-non-profit-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"New St. Louis Non-Profit Does Electric Car Conversion for Clunkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/green-spark-ev-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13027\" title=\"green spark ev logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/green-spark-ev-logo.jpg\" alt=\"green spark electric vehicles logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/green-spark-ev-logo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/green-spark-ev-logo-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you use your car mainly for commuting or driving around town (which is most of us), an electric car may seem like a viable option&#8230; in most cases, &#8220;range anxiety&#8221; isn&#8217;t going to kick in for that kind of travel. But if you look at the prices on EVs, that viability may disappear: the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/nissan-leaf-electric-car\/\">Nissan LEAF<\/a>, for instance, starts in the low $30s (before any tax incentives).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in an upper middle income bracket, you may be able to justify that price with some of the long-term offset of gas prices, or simply doing what you think is right for the environment, public health, and other worthy motivations. If you&#8217;re lower income, however, the idea the price differential between charging a vehicle and filling it up with gas is likely very appealing&#8230; but those sticker prices, even after rebates and incentives, probably put this option out of your budget. And it&#8217;s not like you can go out and buy a used <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Motors_EV1\">EV1<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There may be another used option for EVs: electric car conversion. That&#8217;s the idea, anyway, behind <a href=\"http:\/\/greensparkevs.com\/\">Green Spark Electric Vehicles<\/a>, a new non-profit right here in St. Louis that sees this model as a way to provide affordable electric vehicles to those who could most use the economic benefit, as well as a way to create jobs and educational opportunities in this budding field.<\/p>\n<p>When I say &#8220;new organization,&#8221; I mean it&#8230; the founders are at work on a proof-of-concept with a\u00a01986 BMW 528e. They&#8217;re raising funds for this first conversion, which will cost about $11,000. Like other innovative non-profits, they&#8217;ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their work: they&#8217;d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/GreenSpark-Electric-Vehicles\">raise $10,000 through Indiegogo<\/a> to get the 25-year-old BMW running on electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Check out their site, <a href=\"http:\/\/greensparkevs.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greensparkevs\">Facebook page<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/greensparkevs\">Twitter feed<\/a>, and see if you can pitch in. Great to see this kind of creativity at work right here in the Lou&#8217;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use your car mainly for commuting or driving around town (which is most of us), an electric car may seem like a viable option&#8230; in most cases, &#8220;range&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":13027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[5118,3126,5119,2204,12],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New St. Louis Non-Profit Does Electric Car Conversion for Clunkers &#8226; Sustainablog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/electric-car-conversion-non-profit-st-louis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New St. Louis Non-Profit Does Electric Car Conversion for Clunkers &#8226; 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