OZ Electric Vehicles Innovative EV Upgrade INTERVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- OZ Electric Vehicles, based in Brisbane, has developed a new system to upgrade and improve older EVs which have batteries that are degrading and reaching the end of their useful life powering cars. The system, which is cheaper than a straight replacement battery from the manufacturer, offers not only better range - up to double the factory battery offering - but also new features including hill hold, cruise control, and is set-up for other additions including the inclusion of hardware for advanced driver assistance features. Over-the-air updates are also a feature offered by the OZ Electric Vehicles team. For more information, contact OZ Electric Vehicles via their website at www.ozelectricvehicles.com
Great work Graeme, have been watching this with keen interest for a little while and the end product looks fantastic... So good to see such quality local products
I always said that the Mitsubishi I-MiEV would be perfect with 100 miles of range. Nice job.
Great work guys.
any updates? How will you guys help those outside Australia?
The price is about 80% of what I paid for the car new.
But if the had made thw car with this battery, added cruise control and reprogrammed so the heater can tun on at the end of fast charging, then it would still be a nice car.
Since it is a Japanese microcar, it is easy to drive on tight roads.
How many time have i seen it here in Australia , we pick up a overseas product, and we make it better ,,,,,Good work,,, i Like the innovation,,,,,,and ad on,,,,,
I fully support projects like this and businesses making them available but 12 months warranty just isn't good enough for something that costs so much and has no moving parts.
Is the quick charging ability effected by this upgrade? Can it quick charge faster than before?
Not to be a smart ass but the "charger" and 🔋 are different things. I don't think it will faster BUT you will obviously have a lot more miles.
Also, you can upgrade your charger just same obstacles.
1. Someone with the skill to install it safely and perfectly.
2. Finding the charger that goes with your car.
3. The price.
4. Traveling to the shop to do the work.
Overall though yes you CAN upgrade the charger and charge faster but no sadly ONLY upgrading the battery alone does not make it charge faster. 🥲🙂↔️😔😭
While its damn expensive, thumbs up anyway! could you guys share the batteries producent contacts or its a damn-top-secret?
Is it possible to purchase this battery replacement in the United States?
I need more companies but a few in the US
Hi. I would like to ask whether anyone does not know where is located the horn and how to fix/change it in case it is not working.
Thank you.
Need this in canada
Need this in Japan where the car was made. Mitsubishi are now pushing a new model instead. It's really a Nissan re-badged, nice enough, but I like the car I have.
Fantastic! Can you also modify the AC charger to make the car charge faster?
3kW is the max for this unit, Anything larger would require retrofitting hardware and that starts getting "expensive, fast"
Anything for the 2012 Nissan leaf guys.
If the agent edm in Geelong gave more than a trivial 1 year warranty on the replacement battery pack, I would get my minicab repacked, also 16+ k is just too expensive.
7:48 this is not correct.
The car's brake light comes on when you regen over a certain level.
That depends on the model year. You're right for MY2013 onwards (which comply with UN/EU rules for regen brake light application) but MY2010-12 don't
On unmodified vehicles. the regen in normal D mode is set so that it is below the light trigger threshold. In B mode they will come on automatically when required on 2013 or later cars
2013 and later also use a modified battery formulation which is proving MUCH better than the earlier ones (therefore not usually needing battery work until after the chassis rusts out) and 10-12yo cars are showing up with enough rust (even outside of "rust belt" areas) that extending the drivetrain life is questionable (this is an artifact of them being derived from JDM models and built on JDM lines with substandiatlly less rustproofing than export vehicles)
new battery coast is us dollar or australian dollar? (16k)
Pretty sure it's AUD.
AUD, but licencees around the world are charging substantially higher levels than the AUD price
Impressive. Wonder if a 100w solar panel could be bolted on the top for trickle charging when parked for 8 hrs at work to extend the range even further, also could be handy in emergencies when you run out of power just outside town on holiday trips in places where charging stations are scarce or missing. It would only cost a couple hundred bucks, for an added grand I’d go for it. Great work guys, from North Queensland
you'll get extra 10km in a sunny summer day. sure you want that?
@@diyeverythingnow yes, solar panels would add more than 10km, there’s a race in the Australian desert that runs 100% on solar so it would help a lot especially if the car is made with lightweight and strong carbon fibre wherever possible
@@Drufi no way if we're talking about standard i-miev, not a bicycle equipped with i-miev motor and body made from paper (sure it will do 100 :) )
@@diyeverythingnow you are right in this case. But technological breakthroughs will happen and remove current limitations, I have to hold some optimism that we aren’t gonna be stuck in fossil fuels too much longer
yes it can do ot
Everyone is seriously waitng for these fellas and the DIY cottage industry folk to break into the market.
OEM dealership are plain thieves.
They try to say everything is recyclable but it is not. The battery original core materials are "used up" when the battery reaches the end of life. It's just landfill after that.
Just shows how much you think you know...
There's no "end of life "
It's the commercial aspect that makes waste, because their business model is incompetent. Too afraid to touch an EV, more than happy to flog you a new car.
If you really understood batteries, the biggest cause for capacity loss is a gradual imbalance of voltage. That's nothing compared to a few popped capacitors n fuses in the converter box.
Like lead acid batteries, truely EOL Li-Ion batteries are about 90-95% recycleable back to raw materials. Tesla's entire economic model is predicated on them eventually getting the old cells back