Let's Talk About EV Conversion

your EV jihad is amusing

 

Tires are recycled and mixed with asphalt and made into lots of other items, mulch, wastewater filtration and a bunch of other stuff.

 

It's a power issue to make hydrogen cost effective. If I'm around to see FCV's that is really a best case. No heavy battery packs. I think BEV is the interim to FCV. Safer than ICE and BEV also.

 

Do it right or not at all.

 

All I know is

 

My man

 

You guys went way off topic on this thread with your debate on the merits of EV vs. ICE vs. Hybrid and power generation and definitions of "you." It was meant to be a thread about ideas on how to do a conversion to EV.

 

Back when I worked at VW, there was a guy who converted an old VW Fox (FWD/longitudinal setup) to EV. It retained the factory 5 speed, no clutch albeit the pedal was there still. When it came into the shop for a state inspection, he told us to just pick a gear, and press the go pedal, that was it. He said when he drove around town, he'd use second, faster highway driving he used fourth

 

Yeh, always happens.

 

We also said that it's a dumb idea to remove a perfectly good and reliable Toyota engine/trans to put a non reliable battery/motor setup.

 

I'm known to be a stirrer of pots.

 

All topics need a Devil's Advocate, we're not all here to circle jerk.

 

Whoa bro that's way too much logic for these people.

 

Plenty of dead tacos around so there’s no need to eviscerate a working one. The thread is about how, not why.

 

All I want to say about new EV’s is they will take a lot longer to replace ALL ice vehicles than many think.

I have a 2002 Tacoma, what would motivate me to replace my 3.4? If I were using a vehicle in Africa, South America, Asia, lots of non western world places, when would my vehicle get junked and replaced with a new EV? 10-20-30-40 years? Only when there is a motivation money wise to do so. We elitist westerners will have earlier choices. But most of the world will use ice for another 30-40 years. No rust.

 

Here's a good starting off point for a truck or the Ford Eluminator Crate EV motor for $4k, just the motor, same as in the Mustang. Both are 3 phase AC motors.

Setup used for a Hummer RV project minus trans and batteries. Or you can use a torqbox and transfer case.


Ford crate motor

 

Personally I think ev batteries will evolve much faster in the next 5 years to improve range and speed charging. Ford has a crate electric conversion ev.

Now just keep it simple and cheap, a bolt in conversion for my 2002 Tacoma that will run software wise off my iPhone and cost no more than $5,000. And I can install it myself. I’m a dreamer, not enough profit in my dream for all the manufacturers and dealers?

Edit- Steve snuck in in the middle of my post.

 

Yeh solid state batteries are close. Toyota may have them in the crossover coming next year. They won't reveal the battery tech when asked. Hmmm