Posted on 12/25/2021 3:55:19 AM PST by hamburger hill
General Motors (GM) plans on going beyond manufacturing a fleet of electric cars, according to an announcement Wednesday regarding electrification component sets, which are capable of converting most old gasoline-powered automobiles into new-age electric vehicles (EV).
The technology will be used for EV conversion projects and GM expects to target a group of diverse commercial clients and enable them to meet their sustainability targets. Electrification components will open up new business avenues and the company estimates a market growth of $20 billion by 2030 with the increasing demand for zero-emissions technology.
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Large gummit subsidies at work.
They could still keep up with traffic on I-85 into Atlanta.
“I would rather dump 20 grand into an older classic and have a real car than buy a new piece of garbage.”
That’s what I’m doing, 57 Bel Air, 67 Camaro, 48 Chevy pickup. They will run forever, literally. Just %5,000 gets them good enough for Gubmint work. I’m only about $14,000 away from them all being tricked out.
I don’t understand why numerous delivery vehicles and local buses aren’t electric by now. The Amazon and UPS ones around here are still diesel.
These types of vehicle are the obvious first good uses of the EV but, they ain’t here.
Aren’t those Chinese slaves wonderful making batteries.
Because your iPhone charges at about 2 ampere while the charge current of an electric car is 60-100 ampere. Your phone consumes about 40 watt hours for a charge while the car consumes 7,500 watt hours for a top-off.
Did you ever notice that your electric bill is a lot higher in the summer due to the air conditioner? A car charger will consume a lot more power that a household air conditioner.
“Just what I need for my 68 Camaro.”
I’m finishing the rebuild of my 67 Camaro now, will be on the road in January. I kept the 327 for nostalgia, but it should put out close to 400 hp. It should be plenty zippy with a 700R4 four speed tranny, I don’t want family members to wrap it around a tree. It will be almost a thousand pounds lighter than a new Camaro with a big block.
Well done! Same here... I was born into and have been self employed all my life in the repair business. Not only have I built these older rigs for others all my life I have never bought a new car in my life either. I have always built classics and antiques drove them for awhile myself and then sold them at a profit. My next project waiting in line is a 57 Chevy Apache.
Jealous of that 48 wise friend... Bet the “Climate control” is just a heater “on or off” switch? Or does it actually have a multispeed blower motor? I can’t remember... lol :)
We can put Mennonites and Amish factories to work making buggies.
Their routes are well over 100 miles long.
“We can put Mennonites and Amish factories to work making buggies.”
Since we live in an age of “fences” I am all ready shopping for a good fence jumping Missouri Mule in case they actually implement with this insanity.
Electric snowblowers are all the rage this year!
I think that’s wonderful. Nothing worse than the beauty and silence of a new snowfall ruined by noisy, smelly gas powered snowblowers.
This has to be one of the stupidest ideas ever. Who would invest that kind of money in an old car?
Place I worked for had a propane conversion on a 80s Chevy truck with a 350. That thing was a slug on propane.
I’m not moving to the city so I’m going to need at least 60 miles. I’ve also thought about getting an old Mercedes with the million mile engine. Supposed to be good for running biodiesel.
IF this phase out of fossil fuels actually does happen, it will be decades from now and I would think diesel would be the last to go. Electric heavy equipment, 18 wheelers and large farm tractors ain’t gonna cut it. One could just get a vehicle with a small diesel. Volkswagen makes them. Chevy Colorado would be my pick. Gotta have a truck though I’d prefer full size. All depends on future fuel prices.
I have a little subcompact tractor. 1980 Mitsubishi that has mechanical injection and it would probably run on biodiesel with some modifications. Biodiesel has to be heated in cool weather. It already has a block heater so the engine can be made nice and warm. Guess I’ll need solar panels/batteries to run the heaters though. LOL
We actually lived off grid for 5 years. Two while searching for land and three after we got the land. Ran off of a small solar panel set up. Charge controller went out 3 days before electric service was installed. Inverter not too long after that and the golf cart batteries are shot but they made it 7-8 years which is higher than average. It was kind of cool hearing the neighbors complain about the electric being out the previous day. We were clueless to that and were likely on the internet the day before. We had phone/DSL 3 years before we had electric service. Ran it off the inverter as it takes very little power.
I do want to get the solar panels set up again. Need 4 golf cart batteries($500) and a charge controller($200). Already replaced the inverter. The router and cordless phone would go back on solar and we still have LED lighting that currently runs off an RV converter, until the electric goes out. The converter is also a charger so even just having batteries would give us a day or two just running LEDs and internet.
Re: electric crate motor, a specialty customizing item. Clearly marketed for enthusiasts only right now. Just generating a new market. Interesting though.
We don’t need no stinking complicated heater here in Vegas!! Ha!
You just need 1.21 gigawatts and a power line stretching across the street.
Oh and you have to hit the wire exactly when lightning ⚡ strikes.
Easy-peasy. 👍👍👍
—> Do they have a kit to convert my Sierra 2500 HD and tow 13000 lbs 700 miles in a day?
I was in a board meeting two weeks ago…
The president of the country’s largest truck stop manager was asked when they would add charging units for electric semi-trucks
He said they had no plans to add any.
1. Prohibitively expensive
2. Each would require the energy it takes to power 1400 homes in order to deliver a full charge.
“I have a little subcompact tractor. 1980 Mitsubishi that has mechanical injection and it would probably run on biodiesel with some modifications.”
They are all ready to go with any kind of veggie oil and as you know even deep frier oil, Most diesel sold today is “blend” Biodiesel. For others reading, as you also know Pollard the first diesel was designed to run on peanut oil. Just have to melt them back to a liquid first. The more recent applications of this concept are dual fuel. They run the exhaust through an additional tank with the alternative fuel.
Start it on diesel, and when the heat from the exhaust melted the fuel in the other tank they switched it over from diesel. I have a friend who builds diesel motorcycles and he runs straight up almond, corn, or other vegetable cooking oils with no problems at all.
Is I-85 still that bad?
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