https://www.thedrive.com/news/43030/fords-already-out-of-3900-electric-crate-motors
haha, good luck with all that.....same thing as EV’s in general, when they get the same mpgs, and performance as consistently as regulr gas powered vehicles...let me know.
Kinda sounds like Husseincare. Should be cheap - no?
If the kits had its Mr. Fusion, I would think about it.
In the future, if gas is still available, I see electric cars being converted to gas. Cheaper than buying a new set of batteries when they go bad. $15k or something? Some guy blew up his Tesla when he found out how much new batteries cost. Quite the testament.
Some articles say $17k and some say $22.5k. Both are way more than my blue collar butt ever paid for a used vehicle which is all I can afford. If need be, I’ll build my own electric vehicle using golf cart batteries that cost $125 ea. I doubt I’d need 100($12,500) of them.
There was a guy in Orlando that built his own electric S10 truck and it had a range of 40 miles. I’d have to do a little better than that since I’m rural and town is just over 20 miles away.
Reality is, they just want to reduce the number of people that can drive because personal transportation is freedom. 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.
Golf carts work too...
Imagine being a 911 responder showing up to an accident with one of these beauties. “Naaaah!”
I’m thinking a better kit would be to change a modern gasoline engine into an older “points and plugs, no computer” set-up.
Does it come with a box of coal?
where do they get this zero emission nonsense?
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.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43030/fords-already-out-of-3900-electric-crate-motors
Sorry, not vaxxng my cars.
EV’s are NOT Zero emmission vehicles.
Do they have a kit to convert my Sierra 2500 HD and tow 13000 lbs 700 miles in a day?
What could go wrong...
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!
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.
GM Releasing Kits That Can Convert Old Gasoline Cars to Electric Vehicles
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The biggest issue is the battery. Replacing the average vehicle’s 15 gallon gas tank with an equivalent sized battery does not provide anywhere near the range. 15 gallons of gas is about 270 kWh of energy. Smaller EV’s like the Mini Cooper only have 28 kWh of energy.
Electric vehicles such as the Tesla carry a massive batter occupying much of the floor of the vehicle. There is no way to readily convert a gas vehicle to electric with any meaningful driving range.