Electric Conversion - Would You?

[alfatwo]

No but if I win the lottery I will

What, just to teach them a lesson

Dave

 

[Scaf]

What, just to teach them a lesson

Dave

Exactly - there sis at least one conversion on YouTube

 

[Motorsport3]

Initially I thought sacrilege. Then again electric cars are easier to drive...

 

[philw696]

Hairy wrists like that should be on the watch thread

 

[midlifecrisis]

Initially I thought sacrilege. Then again electric cars are easier to drive...

What no hand signals?

Clearly it's not Clyde!

 

[Nayf]

Initially I thought sacrilege. Then again electric cars are easier to drive...

Ah so that’s what happened to Anthony Worrell Thompson

 

[midlifecrisis]

Getting back to the original question of would I put an electric motor in a classic car and really I think it depends on the engine thats in there in the first place.

I've been loooking at the BMW E30 for a few months now, as I had one in the 90's albeit a 318i Saloon and a 6 cylinder Cabriolet took my fancy. But apart from the rise in prices due to the expected rise in their classic value and they are bl00dy old cars I've not taken the plunge. But this got me thinking, you would replace the engine in an M3 they command top money, north of £50k, but a 320i or 316 you would as they are the unfashionble ones to have. the 316 was the carb'd 318i, the 320i wasn't that much more powerful than the 318i despite having 2 more cylinders and was a lot thirstier. So if I found a cheap E30 316/320i Cab with a decent rust free chassis (or close to) then yes I'd do that, but you would have to update the suspension, braking etc, and that's a cost many do not factor in.

 

[Oneball]

A quick google comes back with a Tesla model 3 battery weighing 480kg by itself. Most of these cars weren’t designed around that sort of weight.

 

[GeoffCapes]

A friend of mine took the new Audi GT leccy car for a test drive on Monday. When I asked what it was like he said "amazingly fast, so luxurious, with the range extender batteries does almost 400 miles".
He also said it was £135k as tested!

And that it was soooooo boring, no noise, nothing! Once you get over the blistering speed it does, it's just boring.

 

[Oneball]

A friend of mine took the new Audi GT leccy car for a test drive on Monday. When I asked what it was like he said "amazingly fast, so luxurious, with the range extender batteries does almost 400 miles".
He also said it was £135k as tested!

And that it was soooooo boring, no noise, nothing! Once you get over the blistering speed it does, it's just boring.

People pay that for a Range Rover so it’s not really any different.

 

[GeoffCapes]

People pay that for a Range Rover so it’s not really any different.

More money than sense some people!

 

[midlifecrisis]

More money than sense some people!

All on PPI with their blingy trainers and a dog in the Mrs' handbag...you know the type

 

[Wack61]

I saw a camper with a range of 120 miles the other day… what a great holiday…

The best bit is where would you charge it even if it got you where you wanted to go

I saw a guy who tried to charge an electric car on campsite power , most of it was running the battery cooling , it added 3% overnight

They need to sort that out before they start building electric camper vans

 

[MaserMike]

 

[Zep]

The best bit is where would you charge it even if it got you where you wanted to go

I saw a guy who tried to charge an electric car on campsite power , most of it was running the battery cooling , it added 3% overnight

They need to sort that out before they start building electric camper vans

Yeah, I had the misfortune to go to a campsite once, and could only charge at 6 amps, so it took a bit less than 6 hours to fully charge my 12 kWh battery.

Overnight and 3% seems very, very pesimistic. Assuming a 60kwh battery (about the norm for an EV), 3% over say 9 hours would give a charging current of 0.6 amps, or just about enough to run two lightbulbs. I know that campsite power can be a bit rubbish, but that isn’t even close to enough to boil a kettle, slowly. Quite why any sort of cooling would be needed for a battery being charged at 200 watts is unclear.

So I am afraid this is going to have to be filed under interesting but not true internet folklore.

 

[jebroni]

Like Quiche I’m sure in my world anyway, real men don’t drive electric cars

 

[Zep]

Like Quiche I’m sure in my world anyway, real men don’t drive electric cars

Just to put your mind at rest, in case you ever have to in a bind, I drove one once and it stayed attached and still worked afterwards.

 

[stikey]

i have customers asking for up, to 3 chargers per house now so if falls down right there 3 x 7kw chargers plus running the house
pop gos the incoming main fuse hence the dno asking for a g99 application before you install one

 

[Wack61]

Yeah, I had the misfortune to go to a campsite once, and could only charge at 6 amps, so it took a bit less than 6 hours to fully charge my 12 kWh battery.

Overnight and 3% seems very, very pesimistic. Assuming a 60kwh battery (about the norm for an EV), 3% over say 9 hours would give a charging current of 0.6 amps, or just about enough to run two lightbulbs. I know that campsite power can be a bit rubbish, but that isn’t even close to enough to boil a kettle, slowly. Quite why any sort of cooling would be needed for a battery being charged at 200 watts is unclear.

So I am afraid this is going to have to be filed under interesting but not true internet folklore.

Can't remember where I read it but 26 hours to charge 60kwh is what they quote on the camc website , a model X is 100kwh so my point stands, ******* useless .

 

[Oneball]

i have customers asking for up, to 3 chargers per house now so if falls down right there 3 x 7kw chargers plus running the house
pop gos the incoming main fuse hence the dno asking for a g99 application before you install one

Whats the DNO cable to your house rated at?