Sponsoring DIY Electric Car
DIY Electric Car is funded by advertising. The site stems from a grass-roots community of garage tinkerers, modders and EV-minded builders.

Traffic has been steadily increasing since the site was started in July of 2007. Advertisements in may were seen by 43,000 different people an average of 10 times each. Traffic is expected to continue growing at a rate of around 35% per month. Details can be found below.

Our Target Advertisers
Sponsorship will be accepted by EV and Green Energy related businesses which include but are not limited to products and services dealing with Batteries, Electric Motors, Controllers, Parts Fabrication, Chargers, Repairs, Lightweight Replacement Parts, Wheels, Tires, Electric Heaters, Electric Power Steering and Pumps.

Advertising Schedule as of Aug 1, 2008.
Static Placement 125x125 pixel ad, visible on all DIY Electric Car Pages on the right-hand side of the screen:

$100 - 1 Month
$180 - 2 months ($90/mo)
$240 - 3 months ($80/mo)
$420 - 6 months ($70/mo)

Currently we will accept Paypal or a Check/Money Order by Mail. Please email rbgrn@rbgrn.net to get set up.

Rate of growth
December to January = 34% increase
January to February = 11% increase
February to March = 44% increase
March to April = 26% increase
April to May = 44% increase

Site Statistics
Below is the site's traffic as of May 31, 2008. This graph was generated directly from the Apache Access Log and was created using Webalizer, which is an internet standard statistics reporting tool.

Monthly Statistics for May 2008
Total Hits 7613596
Total Files 5449835
Total Pages 1968792
Total Visits 77984
Total KBytes 89919960
Total Unique Sites 43461
Total Unique URLs 11417
Total Unique Referrers 74242
Total Unique User Agents 2227
. Avg Max
Hits per Hour 10233 55748
Hits per Day 245599 577551
Files per Day 175801 527755
Pages per Day 63509 271262
Visits per Day 2515 3035
KBytes per Day 2900644 10891167