It's becoming affordable to convert a classic car into an Electric restomod
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- It's becoming affordable to convert a classic car into an Electric restomod
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I wish at some point in the future conversion kits become common. There could be a major tipping point in converting gas vehicles to EVs.
Indeed. In any big city you will find dozens of cars for sale that are under 20 years old but have a bad engine or transmission or stolen catalytic converters but are otherwise in great shape for under $5K, sometimes under $2K. A $10K kit that included a carrier that bolted directly into where the engine and trans went, weighs the same including batteries and motor, then cable connections that spoof all the signals the car's computer expects, and a conversion could get down to a couple of hours labor and no special fabrication.
This will happen in the next future!
There is already a French company that sells kits for some car models.
Then there are DIYers who build there own electric cars out of parts from scrap yards! But they need not buy cars that are more than 40 years old! An BMW from 2005-2012 with a broken engine or transmission cost 500-1000 USD... And then you have a body without rust, and I think it will be cheaper to start with a rear wheel drive car.
@@leiflillandt1488 There's a UK company doing it to, there was an interesting video on Fully Charged where they talked through their thoughts for the future and what they are manufacturing now
This is brilliant. Indeed a franchise business model with well engineered packages sounds like a winner
Interested parties need to start new EV conversion companies pretty damn quick. There's loads of them around already. Probably the two most well known are "Electric Classic Cars" [type that title into TH-cam search for videos] in the UK, and "EV West" in California [type that too].
I remember jumping around in that VW wagon when I was a toddler 50+ years ago. In high school my friend got the same car and now here we go AGAIN. Great memories and nostalgia. Great ideas and THAT’s precisely what I plan on doing to my daughter’s PLUG-IN PRIUS (if she lets me)
Thanks Electric Viking for a wonderful walk down memory lane !!!
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I had this idea over 10 years ago when I was driving behind a classic car that stank really bad. I still believe it might be a good idea for us to take a used car that we like, Lexus 460LS or a Mercedes S class or any other non-tiny car and convert it to electric. It's better for the environment too instead of ordering a new one.
I'd love a kombi electrified and there are a few running around - $60-80K from scratch isn't too bad as a classic kombi is in the same range so finding an old chassis and starting from scratch might be the go
Talk about a sleeper, no oil changes, no smog, torque for days! The first time I did an electric conversion was on a Geo Metro back in college with the help of my auto instructor and classmates. We used lead-acid batteries and kept the manual transmission. It was was primitive, simple, yet functional. That was in 2009, 14 years ago. Seeing this video Viking inspires me to do my own EV conversion project someday. I've swapped and built an ICE before, an EV swap/build would be fun too.
I love it!!!! Please keep these coming when you can. Looks like a great show.
Hey Sam, thanks for this video. I would like to see more stuff about hobbyist conversions. I live in the US, and I'm clinging to my '81 VW T3 Kombi. It was my bucket list car and I've had it 5 years now. It still has the 2.0 air cooled boxer that left the factory with about 70 horsepower, but I have loads of real estate for components. I can't afford a full blown hot rod restomod, but want to keep it rolling and socially acceptable on a budget.
when are you opening up in the USA?
Nice interview, but you have to get a better microphone to use for occasions like this one.
1966 lincoln continental electric would be great
True hybrid vehicles should be like the Chrysler Turbine hybrid car. Minus the engine sound and emissions. A car that can run on almost any liquid is cool.
Future SEMA shows are going to me amazing, EV conversion kits everywhere. I want to convert a Chevy SSR pickup.
I love the look of the F100 convert that Ford did in house, I wish they'd sell that, Retro look are great.
We have been converting for 30 years . Finally our time has come!!!
Greenshedconversions
Steve Clunn
I remember seeing one of the Royal Princes (Either Prince William or Harry) driving an Electric converted Jaguar E type and thinking wow, I want that. Sadly, I think the conversion cost a HUGE amount of money.
That was custom built by Jaguar, as I recall. Beautiful car.
This is the way to go, to keep these cars on the road. Me I would love a chev Corvair perfect to swap
Hey Sam, check out Maxwell Vans in LA
The convert ProMaster Van into electric with a 200 mile range.
I love Electrogusto, the future. Very very smart man, thanks for giving this amazing company the platform
Greenshed conversions in Florida has been doing this type of thing for forty years. Steve knows his stuff. Check them out. Berri No-ICE.
i love converted Classic cars
Can't wait to get my Grandmas 1959 Chevy converted
Looking out the window at our 2002 CRV that's showroom spotless. Yes I'd love to convert it and we're 5 KM from a conversion shop at the mango farm at Samchuk.
I have an old vw vanagon, and I’m desperate to convert it. Prices are steep… but an ID buzz, both pop top or high top is looking to be around €70,000- that would be a very nice conversion budget! A long range Bev camper is years away, so conversion actually makes sense if I want something now. Only issue is range, but with fast charging options for retrofits, things are looking more and more possible!
With batteries prices lowering and some "universal" kits coming soon on the market, we could see conversions form 15 to 25k€.
Contrast these conversion costs with what Damien Maguire spends on his. Damien has converted several older BMWs for under $10K. That doesn't include his labor and he uses previously owned and scrounged parts, but it shows that you can do a conversion for MUCH less than outfits like this.
Uses motors from old washing machines 😅
Have been saying an e-crate dropped in a dynacorn Camaro shell would be sick, lately, and why do more people not do this, and everyone has kinda glanced like I'm mad when I mention the thought of it. Haha.
That was great. My absolute favorite car was a VW Squareback. I had a '67 and a '71.
If I had a Sbarro Challenge or an Isdera Imperator or a repl. of a Mercedes C111, i would think about it, but if I think about the investment like this on a Porsche 924/944 or so, I would say for this (car plus the E-invest) you get a self driving Model 3...
So this offer is only for really rare cars like a DeLorean or cars that were never produced in a high qty.
Sam, thanks for visitng the Electric and Eclectic stand at Fully Charge Live! #electrogusto #Fellten #fullycharged
There are some in the US also, just haven't the cash. Would love to convert my little Mitsubishi pickup. It's an 85.
I'd be next to ya in the driveway converting my 03 beetle. I'd love to use that for daily driving then trade the tesla m3 for a c.t.
This is the only reason I'm keeping my old antique f350 and Coupe Deville to make them evs when I put some spare money aside. Keeping the vehicles costs me nothing.
Amazing, This way you could have even a Toyota that's fully electric!!
LOL. Nice one, Hendrik. Nice one. Cheers.
I recall you bought yourself an electric car a few months ago. See potential for donor car for parts.
have a Volvo 544 hotrod and am thinking to do it if the price drops a bit. running two carbs at the moment but one day.......
Awesome interview 👏
I remember telling you years ago about how this was already happening.
I pointed out that this undermines the argument of ICE that they were serious in EVs as if retro work was being done, at a local profit then ICE was lying.
I don't know about this. Why would you spend $32,000 converting an old clunker to electric when you can buy a brand new Tesla model 3 for $48,000? If they could cut the price of the conversion in half, then they would have something.
3-5 year's for that severe of a price cut. Conversions take labor&time to engineer plus source everything used in them.
@@4literv6 At Tesla investor day, they mentioned their new drive unit cost -- motor+reduction gear diff+inverter -- will be under $1K. That is a ridiculously low cost. If some third party wanted to mfr in qty for conversion kits and could sell that package for even $3K (Ford Eluminator was $4K + $2K inverter), that would be a big step.
@@kirkellis4329 I agree, problem is convincing a manufacturer to do so and in the tens or hundreds of thousands of unit's each year. 🤔
I think using cad, 3d printing&scanning tech plus higher end composites. You could even make drop or bolt in battery pack's to replace the engines&go into the trans tunnels on conventional powered swaps. Using tubular k members would also allow for easier conversions.
Imagine a shop setup using all that to make swap/bolt in battery pack with a motor/controller&inverter kits for different year popular vehicle's.
Then places like aem and their new ev division Holley high voltage making bms and controller kits a more budget and diyer friendly solution.
We could really see the conversion market take off using just tech we have available to us TODAY.
Just used in a much more user friendly cohesively designed manner. I'm thinking like electric classic cars has with their engineered and bolt in ev swap kits anyone can buy for various vehicle's&diy. Obviously a bloody good bit cheaper than them though and made at the tens of thousands not just dozens of kits a year scale. Oh the possibilities that come to mind for modern elektromods. 🤔
@@4literv6 If the world ran out of oil suddenly, then there would be such a rush to convert existing ICE cars, otherwise there won't be enough demand to justify the engineering required for a drop-in replacement for the wide variety of vehicles favored by what amount to hobbyists.
Which is a shame, because I can envision a drop-in cradle that uses the existing engine mounts and replaces the engine and trans and includes maybe 30kwh of battery modules along with inverter and charger and replacement HVAC all in the cradle. With optional 30kwh packs that fit under the seats inside the car. Giving people the option of going up to 90kwh total. A complete enough package might need just 2 hours to remove all the ICE systems from a car and another hour to bolt in the complete replacement modules and connect a wiring harness that spoofs all the engine signals the car's original computer needs to run the dash, ABS, airbags, etc. That "virtual engine" in software would be the only thing different from vehicle to vehicle along with wiring harness adapters and driveshaft adapters.
I'd love to have an electric original Mini.
87 MBZ SDL conversion... !!! Dream!
BMW 2002 tii or a BMW CSI 3.0 I would love to electrify either one of those
Electric classic cars (uk ) have done ev conversions on both of them
I would like an Allegro Estate converted to electric 4wd camouflage paint off roader.
This is very cool, but it’s not practical. When you buy a new electric car it will come with a lot of safely features and it will have been crash tested. If you have a lot of money to burn and you want a classic car that looks great and goes fast, then this might be an option. I think the future of this is kits for converting certain very popular cars that might make it in the ballpark of affordable.
Enjoy you being out, It's a good change of pace. You're looking shredded Viking!
I've never heard of an Electric resomod - initially, I thought it was Restroom, but after asking Google, I see what folks are doing.
Kind of like the reverse of when we were kids, and we turned out bikes into motorbikes by using a clothespin and clipping a baseball card to the front fork, so it made a Rrrrooooommmm sound. In hindsight that Mickey Mantle baseball card would probably pay for our grandson's college education. Silly me.
Sadly the old hotrods will have to play recorded sounds of the monster gasoline engine before conversion going
Rrrooooommm rrrrooommmm rrrrroooommm
Doesn't do much for me, but I guess if it floats your boat....
Exactly right. People no longer have to give up their old beautiful cars. Let’s face it design went from artistic to functional over the last 50 years. With some small respites the cars of the 50’s through 70’s were just better looking. I can’t wait for the day that NYC has a fleet of those old yellow taxis from the movies. Only now they are fiberglass and electric and silent. No need to keep the horn on them while you are in there though.
1930s-60s imo was the golden era for car design. Not much outside maybe the countach is iconoclastic since then.
Maybe a few other hyper or supercars here and there like pagani, spyker, koenesigg, zonda, noble etc.
But everyday true driver's car's that had groundbreaking seriously sexy designs&we're truly affordable like the 50s clasics and 60s muscle car's?
Yeah basically none of those have come about since before I was born in 82. 🙂
Seriously expensive still, mate! Give it 5 years, but it's already way cheaper here in California.
I never realised that Samuel had a side profile until just now.
what is the first car in the beginning of the video?
I want an electric Bass 770.
Should offer a Flux Capacitor as an option.....
what was the conversion cost? sound was muffled.
$69K.
Funny how legacy auto can't convert any of their cars.
which of these two guys has got the better beard ?
Classic Old Cars...
They SUCK BANG & BLOW!
I'd easily convert a 20yo car to a hybrid
US$60,000 to conver to an EV. wow.
Way too expensive to do the conversion.
54 thunder bird convertible. ...ya
Bro out in the field! Nice. ✌🏻
Instead of buying a new car, I would do it to my current car even. That said, you really don't want to have a frontal collision with those heavy batteries in the front😞
The engine it's most of the times heavier
@@ashtaroth1975 Crushed lithium ion batteries are more likely to catch fire than an engine, apparently. Still seems worth the risk to me. A fire isn't going to happen so fast you can't get out and a wreck bad enough to do that is going to total the vehicle whether ICE or EV. It may be impossible to match the original weight distribution if the engine and trans weight is removed and only a much lighter motor replaces them.
I wouldn't do that to a collectable car, it will ruin its long term value
... there is this classic Volvo ☺️
Imagine a AC Cobra 🐍 kit car with an electric motor.
Been done before many times and you can actually order one from superformance in the U.S. with a large tesla du&800+hp
@@4literv6
Wow for how much money
@@ronmatthews2250 I'm pretty sure it's six figures to start? Kinda one of those if you gotta ask you can't afford it deals. 🙂
The homebuilt one I've seen on here with a tesla m3 rear motor and a tesla pack that does scca racing wasn't that much.
But conversions are not cheap any way you slice it. And racing one is crazy expensive. 😀
How about a red barrchetta?
This is the one application where its acceptable to have engine noises coming out of speakers.
Nothing content realated, but holy shit he is fucking jacked
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Who wants to replace a V8 with an e-motor? It's no longer a classic car after that move. The typical V8 rumble is gone. The feel of the classic muscle car is raped.. Better try to let the classic V8 run on synthetic e-fuel.
Get a good sound system and good music while you are at it
Beard Bros for Life
Just buy a new classic kit car and put in a lot cheaper electric system.
I did it 9 years ago in Sydney. Here it is - th-cam.com/video/zpyMkiECDUc/w-d-xo.html
Not a chance. I have a classic car and it will stay as it is.
No longer a classic car so future price will be a lot less than an original. E fuel’s will guarantee the originals will keep a better resale value.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No airbags or ABS, no thanks
Great no bull$hit to put up with!
@@richarda996 Dumbest comment I've seen in a while, ABS and airbags are basic safety features that save thousands of lives globally a year, they are not a hassle you have to deal with, they just sit there in the background waiting to save you when you or another driver does something stupid...
omg he has legs?