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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Soggz, Jul 21, 2021.

  1. If you are willing to do everything yourself, make your own battery box, motor mounts, gearbox adapter etc, and use all salvage parts (buy a donor EV), you can do it for about £5k - 10k maybe. If you pay someone to do it, using new parts, depending on what size battery and motor you want and charging options, between £30k and £80k ish. It's possible to get something on the road with a small battery (think round-town range) for not much over a grand if you use bits of junk like an old fork lift motor, recycled wiring, scrap metal, heavily used batteries etc.

    As for fuel cells, don't believe the hype.
     
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  2. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    I agree. Having this conversation only yesterday with a bloke down the pub.
     
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  3. matty

    matty Supporter

    One thing they don’t talk about with the conversions is the weight, all those battery’s must take it over the weight limit.
     
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  4. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    are you sure that includes a battery, that seems ridiculously cheap from what ive seen,t he battery price is usually additional and theyre 2nd hand :eek:, from what i can see £25-40K is more like it
     
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  5. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    he knows a lot that bloke down the pub :D
     
  6. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    To be fair, it was a while ago, so maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought it included a small rubbish battery. :thinking:
     
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  7. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    batteries look to be £10k upwards for used ones. :eek:
     
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  8. Dubs

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    I wonder when the catalytic converter thieves will move on to EV batteries? :eek:
     
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  9. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    Im sure they already have
     
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  11. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Seems a good little project if we were talking about a transplant from a accident damaged electric vehicle, but I’m wondering whether any of us could offset the carbon footprint of installing a newly made electric motor and batteries in a vehicle that barely does 3000 miles a year. Would it have to become our daily. Does the fact we hardly use them make them more environmentally friendly anyway?
     
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  12. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

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  13. Fruitcake

    Fruitcake Supporter

    Forgive me for being born too early..................:confused:
     
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  14. Shame on you!
     
  15. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    I think somebody did a conversion and wrote it up in Volksworld C&B and they had 12 Tesla battery modules in their hotel shuttle bus, so around £25k for maybe 150 miles range.
    Its a dismally large amount of money and non-recyclable crap for a completely non-stellar performance.

    If you want an EV go and buy an EV.


    (now lets talk about replacing the alternator with a 10kW motor-generator, upgrade to a 1915 engine and fit somewhat fewer battery packs , and beef up the fan belt , now we're talking , for a series self-charging hybrid. Torque boosts when you need it.. )
     
  16. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    He does.
    He knows a lot about our vans,
    He gave me this, says “It may come in handy”. FF1E51A9-4107-4EFA-9B85-D9D8E4B87226.jpeg There’s parts in there that I have never seen.:thumbsup:
     
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  17. Silver

    Silver Needs points/will pay!

    If you want to weld as well as this guy, watch a couple of YouTube videos and away you go. I found the only way to match his weld quality was not turning my gas bottle on!!! :confused::D
     
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  18. £55K. I think they have forgot a decimal place Screenshot_20220207-201030_Chrome.jpg
     
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  19. Sproggy4830

    Sproggy4830 Supporter

    Couldnt give you a price, but i bought an engine and gearbox of a lad in Knaresborough , wjho had imported a van to electrify it, the first one in his new buisness , sorry no contact details etc, but if he suceeded then i am sure an internet search may discover him.!!!
     
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