Previous Attempts

Beginning with my first DIY electric bicycle project (12 mi.@ 18MPH) back in the '80's there have been a number of attempts to electrify our transportation stable.  'Stable' isn't quite the right word for some of them...  ;-)   First one:
http://www.evalbum.com/190
It's still hanging out on Mike's EV-Album and still running around N.C. as far as I know. It ran me to work for most of 8 years. Pretty good!

The second attempt was a screaming deal, it just didn't actually work very well.
The story: http://the-redmenace.blogspot.com/
and it's beginnings: http://the-redmenace.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-beginning.html

Not a whole lot positive to say about the R1. I learned a lot (of what not to do) It never did really prove very useful. The story is amusing in retrospect and I did get about half my money back out of it in the end, so it coulda been worse.

The third go'round was actually useful transportation for awhile.
It came to an exciting end though as you can see: http://lefantomeblanc.blogspot.com/

Those blogs have plenty of details if you're interested. There's also been a 2000 Honda Insight that got 72 MPG over the ten years I had it (and is still going strong for my neighbor) and a 2010 Insight that we leased while waiting for Honda to get it's electric car shit together (which I still don't think has happened.)
My S.O. has a 2010 3rd gen.Prius which works rather well, but obviously I prefer 'pure' electrics...