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4.5
I expected this book to have anything in it helpful in the process of converting a gas car to electric. The level of discourse in this book was an insult. Apparently, whomever Dr. Y EV is, he has never heard of an editor: the book is riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Basically this book says: there are cars, there are electric motors and other parts, and these can be put together to make an EV, now go find a real book to tell you how to do it. About ten pages are dedicated to the actual parts that go into a conversion, the beginning being a simplistic discussion of alternative forms of energy, and the second half (entirely half the book!!!) was a glossary of terms that have virtually nothing to do with this subject except that things in our world are, for instance, made out of carbon. This glossary section contains definitions of organic compounds and other advanced scientific stuff that have nothing to do with the task of conversion, and also break the trend towards writing a book for first-graders. ("Hmm, my book is kinda short, I'll just cut-and-paste from this o-chem book...") The only redemptive portion of the book is about 15 pages of links to EV related sites, which for a couple hours in the internet you can find on your own. Who is this Dr. Y EV anyway, and why does he use a pen name? A search for him on the internet turns up nothing and there is no contact info in the book, very sketchy.
