In the past, when I’ve looked at such things, they were about as expensive as buying an EV, and tended to offer far shorter range and no regenerative braking.
Missing regen braking doesn’t even make sense, that can’t be THAT hard to implement in a controller
Depends on what motor they use. Some get weird. The people I know who coverted a car didn’t try for regen because their surplus motor was wound in a way that makes regen really tricky, and you don’t want to get this wrong.
for 15k€, a minimum of specs need to be guaranteed.
Costing between €12,000 and €15,000
It’s honestly shocking to me that it’s that cheap
I am highly skeptical but willing to be convinced. How do they handle mechanical throttle linkages and emissions ECUs? Does it go through you’re existing transmission and drivetrain?
“We take out the combustion engine and we have a frame which uses the old points of the engine,” Timo Walden, project manager at e-Revolt and one of the company’s first investors, explained. “And so we can easily swap only the engine with the new frame and the components. And that’s why we are much faster than an individual solution. So, the frame here is a big part of our fastness”. The company says it usually takes on average around a day to complete the process, which includes stripping the old engine block out of the car and replacing it with its patented battery technology and engine frame, as well as the full digitalisation of the vehicle. Costing between €12,000 and €15,000 to complete the job, the price point may give some reassurance to many consumers who currently can’t stretch their budgets to buy a new EV.
Article too vague in that regard, but it seems such cars are allowed to transit on german roads, so assumingly they are safe to drive.
Wait. The battery AND the motor is only where the ICE was? What’s the range than? 40km?
I see they’re dumping the engine but I wonder how they’re handling the transmission. I bet it’s probably a manual only conversion.
EV conversion has been a thing for a while, albeit not at this scale, and my understanding is that automatic transmissions just turn to sand against the torque of a singular big EV motor. That’s why most dedicated EVs don’t have transmissions at all in favor of wheel specific motors and SSR gears.
someone needs to debunk the technicalities behind their ‘conversion’. for 15k€ you would still get a second hand EV in good condition
Manual EV? I’m OK with that!
I am a bit conflicted on one hand I am sure changing it over will be better than petrol. But on the other hand I am not sure how much emissions are generated from making the batteries themselves. I think we need more bio fuels. At least until we can make batteries don’t require lithium mining.
Bio fuels are just a different kind of oil. Hydrocarbons reacting with oxygen to release CO2 and heat.
Lithium mining is evaporating saltwater with sunlight.
It would be nice if we would actually fully switch to this method of mining lithium. It’s slowly happening, but not fast enough. The majority of our lithium still comes from rock mines, at the moment.
