https://www.thedrive.com/news/43030/fords-already-out-of-3900-electric-crate-motors
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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I hate to see this. I see the writing on the wall. Mandated retrofits into all older cars if you want to keep them.
I think Tesla is making or it already has a “drop-in” kit that directly replaces a small block Chevy.
You just have to drive a hundred miles to refill. And you can stop at the coffee shop for 70 minutes while it charges.
Steam in that case...
“You just have to drive a hundred miles to refill. And you can stop at the coffee shop for 70 minutes while it charges.”
So you drive for 80 minutes and have to stop for 70 minutes. Isn’t that almost a 50% downtime? A coast to coast trip a week? More? Might as well be driving one of those new fangled Model T Fords...
I have no idea why everyone is capitulating and embracing this whole concept at all. Without strong mass resistance they are going to force this extremely impractical concept on us all.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43030/fords-already-out-of-3900-electric-crate-motors
The lead acid cells will be very large and heavy but cheap.
Dont know the typically current draw of one of those vehicle ev motors to calc the amp hrs you would need, and also the parallel/serial config.
Sorry, not vaxxng my cars.
EV’s are NOT Zero emmission vehicles.
The nice thing about a DIY setup is you can decide how much range to pay for. Why pay for 400 miles if you only need 100 and that reduces the battery cost by 75%?
Do they have a kit to convert my Sierra 2500 HD and tow 13000 lbs 700 miles in a day?
“ As for a car, I would be game. Come home, park in the driveway, plug it in to charge, leave it charging all night.”
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Should work great. Leave it charging all night plugged into your gasoline powered generator 🙄….
What could go wrong...
“Some day we may wish we had an older system.”
I’m with you, everything I got that is gas will run with a carb and points. A mechanical pump Cummins diesel dodge. Two older Chevy 350s with carbs and HEI, but the I have drop in point distributors for those. A bug with carb and points. And a Jeep Cherokee with the 4.0 inline 6 that can be switched to carb and points in a couple hours with drop in older Rambler parts I have ready in case.
The transportation uses huge amount of energy. In case of massive usage of EV, the power generation capabilities must double and the grid needs to be reworked in major way.
Since they are in the same time shutting fossil fuel and atom, the Earth has to be covered by solar and windmills.
Here goes the farming, forest and national lands!
“Do they have a kit to convert my Sierra 2500 HD and tow 13000 lbs 700 miles in a day?”
Never will either, you would have to add a second trailer for the batteries and be pulling 23,000 lbs. I have no clue why folks just do not see this concept WILL NEVER WORK.
Electric cars have way more “MPG” than gasoline cars. The Problem is the Batteries have too little “G”.
A Tesla battery that gives more than 200 mile of range only has the equivalent energy of a couple gallons of gas.
Seems to me there is a loss of energy at each stage.
Immediately sell your GM stock. Something tells me this idea is going to turn into a lead balloon.
Well, I guess that’s what you get when your company is sold to the Union of its workers. Great company strategy for factory workers. . . until the lack of sales closes the factory for good.
What happened to Obama Vega? ‘Nough said.
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