UAF students can soon sign up for electric car class

Mon, April 7, 2008
Posted in Alaska News

An upcoming class at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will teach students how to retrofit a car from gas to electric power.

Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks

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2 Comments to “UAF students can soon sign up for electric car class”

Budd Goodyear on April 8, 2008 at 7:58 am

I attended an electric car demonstration race at Phoenix International Raceway in 1994 or 1995. GM has an electric car with a motor about the size of the old one-pound coffee cans that had set the world electric car speed record at 187 mph. There was an Indy open wheeled race car there that turned several laps at 100+ mph. And the main event had 38 gasoline to electric conversions done by high schooler and others from all across the country. I have photos. It was an exciting event and seemed to me to indicate the auto industry is dragging its feet in electric car production. A final note, Matanuska Electric Association, Palmer, Alaska, owned an electric car back in the 1960s or 1970s. Bill Foster and MEA manager spoke of driving it. He passed on a couple of years ago..
Frank on April 13, 2008 at 4:56 pm

when is the class? and how much does it cost?