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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Id rather see them sell a conversion kit to remove all the electronics and needless safety stuff.
“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.”
Having offroaded all my life I have found this depends on the terrain. For rock crawling I would rather have the standard so I can just crawl along solid. For soft sand I would rather have an automatic. A good compromise is having a low RPM lockup convertor in an automatic with a good shift kit.
Standards can be a pain when trying to shift up in soft sand. It is near impossible to shift fast enough to keep it from coming to a stop before you can get into the next gear. So you end up just going along in one gear without being able to upshift until you hit hard stuff again. But with an auto it will shift fast enough to actually get away with upshifting in the soft stuff.
It worked great for applying power but I had to get out to lock in the hubs of course.
Floor pan severely rusted on passenger side but some Bondo and mesh fixed all that
And then some double sided application of rustproofing.
I got the body tub on mine powder coated plus new floor pans welded in.
A few minor flaws I can live with or cover up. I had to watch the checkbook.
I’ve gotten nothing but compliments on the tub.
Back then my boss was trapped in her house. I was the only person that made it to work on a super heavy snow day. Her husband gave up with his Ford 250 4x4 which surprised me.
Drove right over, picked her up then right back to work.
One icy you couldn’t even stand. Guy gave me $20-$50 to drive him 2 miles to his home. I really think it was $50. There was no way for him to get home. Went right up an icy hill past all these stuck cars. Piece of cake. The thing was amazing in that regard. I was going to buy a new body but sold it for house building cash.
Spray both sides with heavy undercoating. Then it won’t matter if water traps. Like the powder coat though
I think have one of those old evaporative coolers you roll up in the door window around here somewhere. I think it is one of those with no fan or moving parts, driving wind pressurizes it and makes the air flow though towards the window cracked a bit on the other side.
Good advice. Thank you.
I’m going to contact KaiserWillys next week and if anything useful for my 65 Willys is available.
Last month I tried to get the military style dash but there was a 45 day back order then.
I’d like to get the dash and maybe fenders or the suspension rebuild kit next month.
Being in the Southwest the snow and ice situation is occasional, but I suppose deep snow would be about the same situation as soft sand. That first shift from first gear to second is the most critical and where an auto is handy.
But I full well know the capability of the old school Jeeps, owned several CJs over the years. Still have a 53 M38A1 Willy’s out back that my kids learned how to drive with.
Can I get it in the wind-up rubber band edition?
Batteries are the most expensive part of an EV car. They are heavy as well.
Maybe what they need is something like those nasty looking power lines suspended above electric train tracks.
There used to be a Delorean that ran around NE Columbia every so often. I haven’t seen it in a long time.
One evening I saw the car in parking lot and the guy was trying to fix something. I talked to him for a few and got a look inside.
6’3 me would have no business trying to fit that driver’s seat.
For a number of years I passed through Atlanta on the way to the East Coast.
We avoided stopping on the East side of Atlanta. Due to what we saw in Lithonia on one trip.
My daughter and grandson live there.
I told my daughter recently, that I may never leave Texas again. (I’m 74)
I sure wished I could help here move back to Texas.
EV is about govt control. when they control the power grid, they control you Climate lockdowns and power shutdowns will come and you won’t be able to go anywhere
“That won’t give you any more range”
If it charges the batteries, why wouldn’t it increase the range?
Texas looks good to me; and, Texans seem to be great people who are openly proud of their state. I like that.
The range is limited to the battery charge. Braking within that range is a net loss in energy, not a gain. If you ever use your brakes, you’ll never reach the maximum range.
0 Zero Imposter is right.
“ But I’ve been wrong before. Could happen again.”
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Yeah……. Sure could.
Fossil fuel is a finite resource. So, eventually it will diminish to a point where it will be too expensive to burn as fuel. But, that won’t happen anytime soon. Battery technology has been ever so slowly over the past 100 years. And, there is not a revolutionary breakthrough on the horizon. However, by merely converting power plants to natural gas leaves plenty of environmental opportunity until the big breakthrough occurs. In the meantime it’s my guess there will be other clean power sources brought on-line that will relegate battery power back to the trash heap of history where it belongs.
Btw, one power source I’m keeping an eye on is hydrogen power. Has several advantages over battery power.
“ But I’ve been wrong before. Could happen again.”
******************
Yeah……. Sure could.
Fossil fuel is a finite resource. So, eventually it will diminish to a point where it will be too expensive to burn as fuel. But, that won’t happen anytime soon. Battery technology has been ever so slowly over the past 100 years. And, there is not a revolutionary breakthrough on the horizon. However, by merely converting power plants to natural gas leaves plenty of environmental opportunity until the big breakthrough occurs. In the meantime it’s my guess there will be other clean power sources brought on-line that will relegate battery power back to the trash heap of history where it belongs.
Btw, one power source I’m keeping an eye on is hydrogen power. Has several advantages over battery power.
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