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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BS
Just a program to raise their MPG across the fleet.
It’s a gimmick
“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.”
And that right there is the plain reality of it... Besides the fact that with the additional downtime to recharge, perishables will be already perished during transport by the time they get delivered.
They already have to ship it all not ripe yet and green as it is.
The mechanics guild would lobby against that.
Can’t have backyard mechanics setting the points with a matchbook cover.
Or deciding to replace the cheapest component first when your car won’t start on a fully charged bat’tree...
Still needs bat’trees...
Where do you mount those?
That's what I've read about it. There is also a group of guys that when diesel was up over $4 during the obama years, came up with 85/15 used motor oil/gasoline. WMO(waste motor oil). It has to be filtered and having one of those high speed spinning machines that separate luquid by viscosity is good to have. Can't remember the name of it.
We are in the Southwest also, in fact farther South that you. But in the higher altitudes a heater can be nice in January. lol
I’ll get right on it.
FWIW I bought a part from Delorean recently.
A fuel rollover valve for my CJ7 project was 50 bucks in most places. The same part I got for about half.
An Apache should look pretty slick.
Yeah, it can get nippy here, but rarely. What I really want is a Thermidor for summer.
30 plus years ago, I was merging onto another freeway when a Back To The Future Delorean went past me.
Being as it was here in the Midwest I was guessing it wasn’t the one on display at Universal Studios from 1985 or so.
I guess that's why NewScum banned:
Fracking in CA
And mandated no gas installations in new buildings after 2024
That is All Electric
In a State that closed its only Nuclear Power Station
And is suffering from power outages
And mandated that the electric company is responsible for fires....because the state mandate is to prohibit access roads and logging in forests...so saw mills closed down and forests filled up with dead trees and high levels of inflammable undergrowth.
When Natural gas is Outlawed......
Had a CJ7 with a 304 and automatic.
Tires from a Walmart supercenter.
That thing would go through snow and the worst ice like nobody’s business.
Yes, I have made the used motor oil diesel blends too. But what I do is heat it in a refinement tank which the sediment can be cleaned out. It will thin good and let the sediment drop. Then “rack” it off like beer down to above the sediment and then filter it. The thing I ran into was the cost of replacing the filters to do it. Ended up costing as much or more in the end. But if nothing is available... It will keep you going.
On some level an automatic in a CJ sounds wrong.
I might have seen one set up with an automatic transmission. All manuals for me.
However these days with parts being the way they are, I would entertain a modern automatic with a floor shifter.
I have a rescued 304 but I found a cracked bell housing.
Spokeshave.
My 78 Ford pick up nearly finished rebilding
Front end suspension and brakes
Changed 3 spd gear box for a 4 speed with overdrive
Rebuilt the gauges console and turn indicators.
New tires all round and shock absorbers.
Very few people restore and upgrade cars like that. That would be a minuscule market. Maybe 1,000 customers per year doing custom EV retrofits to old classic and hope-to-be classic cars.
But your everyday driver / commuter car? No way in hell would such an investment be warranted in a worn-out econo-car.
My daily car is a 1990 Mercedes diesel
It just died...looks like fuel tank clogged up with black gunk
Need to remove the fuel tank clean it out, replace filters.
I suspect the fuel pump and injector pump will need a rebuild.
Pollard: “That will drive everyone into the big “smart cities” which won’t be near as nice or smart as they say. You’ll own nothing and be miserable.”
teeman8r: “...cannot have congestion when every driver is waiting for his car to charge.”
I hate to be the sole person to point this out, but you both cite the specific definition of “collectivism”.
“Reality is, they just want to reduce the number of people that can drive because personal transportation is freedom. “
If one reads between all the emotional lines and their affronts, the template erodes liberties one cut at a time.
“Death by a thousand cuts,” so to speak. We are in a new era whereas national policy is dictated by combination direct corporate involvement (’stakeholders’, as opposed to mere lobbyists of years’ past) and statist influence (China) due to direct corruption of the highest levels of government, all indirectly supported by useful idiots - educated & uneducated alike (e.g., the new SA).
We have been at war for a number of years; the problem is that the enemy is embedded among us. The sooner we all recognize that and begin to respond appropriately, the sooner things will shift.
Batteries not included……
Yeah. I think carpet bombing is the only way out of this mess.
Good point. But couldn’t those vehicles be given enough battery capacity so they could perform their missions?
Do EVs charge the batteries during at least part of the braking? That is, turn the motors into generators?
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