4 Build Your Own Electric Car: de-ICE-ing

4 Build Your Own Electric Car: ICE Removal
In this section, we get ready to remove the internal combustion engine, the gas tank, the exhaust system, and anything else we won't need for our electric conversion.
For some great ideas on different vehicles converted to electric, check out the listing at the EV Album! www.evalbum.com
This video is one segment of an instructional video I created in 2010 from a home-built electric car I made in 2008. Of course, battery and motor technology has advanced quickly since then, and affordable, commercially-built, Electric Vehicles are now a reality.
This video series covers ONE low-tech and simple way of converting a car to electric. Many of these same ideas and techniques still apply to go-karts, motorcycles, boats, and lots of other projects. We hope that you enjoy watching these videos and learn a little something from them.
There are still a few copies of the original DVD for sale. Besides the video, the set also has a DVD-ROM with photos, web clips, and documents from the project.
All profits support our work and go towards future DIY Clean Transportation and Renewable Energy Projects.
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Music Credit:
"B-Roll" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@prsmccarty01]

Some of the most logical and straight forward conversion info on KZbin. Great work. Keep it up!

[@samhighfield]

This guy is a legend. I like to think he’s finally been able to take time away from his stressful job for his own personal project, the perfect Sunny weather has come along and he’s just enjoying working on cars, motors with that childhood excitement of just doing exactly what you want to do

[@Carsnacksmark]

Great video mate. I’m in the Uk about to start my first conversion on Vw splitscreen. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

[@tha_defenders]

Do you buy vw classics? Split screen. I have those

[@prakashraokujala7770]

Thank you Benjamin for explaining in detail's

[@xchopp]

0:21 No, no, no! "ICE" stands for Infernal Combustion Engine! Just kidding, excellent videos! :)

[@TheMarcball]

thanks Ben, learned a lot today, this is gonna be a fun series...

[@storm4710]

as a trained car mechanic never use the ground as a measuring distance, center of the wheel is the right way

[@CKE142B]

Did you weigh the car before and after "de-ice-ing"? Curious about the weight difference. And then, after the batteries were added.

[@ecapanema]

very good series, man :)

[@yusufsaturo6093]

Hi sir am yusufu working electronics I need your adviser to the car I have seen you your senior modify

[@yusufsaturo6093]

How can I get dc motor from you to my country Uganda sir I need the motor and help with your whattdpp

[@user-xs3df2es2v]

I want to add, it is dangerous to put a wrench near the battery, it can close the battery

[@Alrukitaf]

Absolute Gold!!

[@h7opolo]

great video. amazing work.

[@TourmalineHealer]

Thank you for the informative video bruva -ppreciate cha *tips hat*

[@khyvich]

You could have siphoned the gas tank. Much easier and no mess. I use 1/2" clear hose I get at Ace Hardware.

[@electronicartis]

Good work man keep the video then coming.

[@kyleroberts5766]

I want to replace the torque converter with an electric motor! Audi makes one that got me thinking about this! Your thought?

[@briannem.6787]

I've never seen so much rust! Is this due to salted roads? (I've only seen snow once in my life)

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

This was an older car and YES, salt on roads in the winter dramatically increases automotive corrosion in my area.

[@shawng5799]

Your next project should be how to convert an EV to an EV that's yours. As lots of EV's in the UK are now having their batteries reach "end of life" and with seemingly no aftermarket batteries available at a reasonable price. They literally need converting to EV again. i.e. different batteries, and electronics that will not reject them.

[@32BitLink]

shawn G once his 2012 imev battery dies that could be cool

[@randomgenericusername3890]

Can I remove the body panels and replace them with fiberglass versions? Since fiberglass is light and cheap. Or should i just get a chassis and put fiberglass body panels on it?

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Anything you can do to reduce weight for an electric car conversion is beneficial. If you can replace parts with lighter-weight versions, that's great. An even simpler approach is just to choose a light car in the first place.

[@timothykeith1367]

The body panels of a Metro are already very light. Rich Rebuids recently bought a Spark EV at an insurance auction for $2,000. It had some minor problems that he fixed. He said that you could swap the components to a Geo Metro. The Spark EV weighs 2,866 lbs. A stock 96 Metro weighs about 1,725 pounds. The Spark EV range is 82 miles. The Metro with the Spark parts would have a range greater than 82 miles, your guess is as good as mine. You could lighten the Metro - how much depends upon your fabrication skills and the safety regulations in your state. The lightest Metro could be built on a tube frame chassis with aluminum floor and Lexan side glass, non opening passenger door. You can use a 3M window tint film to prevent the Lexan from scratching. I believe a tube frame Metro with OEM drivetrain might weigh 1,400 pounds - passenger and rear seats removed and aluminum skin for interior panels - smooth aerodynamic belly pan. Before I converted to EV I'd see how much fuel economy a 1,400 pound Metro might achieve using the stock Suzuki G10. The only way to up the final drive ratio is to use the XFI crown gear(or the four cylinder G13 crown gear). You could also swap to 14 or 15 inch Honda Civic wheels. I estimate the 1,400 Metro could achieve 80 MPG, 800 miles on the 10 gallon tank. Using the Spark EV parts, the final weight of a tube frame Metro EV conversion could be well under 1,800 pounds - about 1,000 miles under the weight of the Spark EV. What do the Spark EV batteries weigh? Could the range be 120 miles? 160 miles ? At 1,000 pounds lighter it would be a rocket. Spark EV wasn't sold nationwide.

[@user-xs3df2es2v]

A spare wheel( stepney or reserve wheel) and jack may be needed on the road( during trips or on roads).

[@nealshue6791]

Hi Benjamin. Do you have a video about controllers? I just got an old golf cart that has no controller and I'm not sure where to start.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Yeah, I've got a couple. Just search "Controller" on my channel page. Here's one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6HKZaR8m66cj7s

[@nealshue6791]

@@BenjaminNelsonX Thank you Benjamin.

[@snowcold903]

the only oil you should worry about is in the transmission

[@NaughtyGoatFarm]

Awesome work. What sort of highway range do you get?

[@bhalchandra5113]

Pl share the link to first video; I jumped to 4th video

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Here's the entire playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2Gvap6baqyhhZI

[@nir2661]

Keep going....

[@esurfrider7687]

Very good point, if the engine works, sell it!

[@Directory1]

13:40 is the big explosion, he's smoking and working with gasoline.

[@In.Another.Universe]

nice jorts

[@richardriehle4159]

loved my metro . unfortunately.....rusted failure that you pointed out.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

It seems like every vehicle has certain quirks to it. A friend who always drove Metros pointed out to me how those support pillars in the front rust out from the inside. For any car a person would like to convert, it's worth looking through a web forum dedicated to that make and model to find out any quirks of it.

[@ladypilliwick8179]

The computers are killing me....can't afford a EV. I do have a 1938 Tudor Chevy that is in good shape but no one but hotrod erstwhile want. ......and everything is grandfathered in

[@darnelcarston9924]

Prime.

[@EmmittBrownBTTF1]

Fill the gas tank with water fives times and flush.

[@aliciagonzalez8558]

I have a kia rio 5 door in excellent condition

[@aliciagonzalez8558]

How much time and cost would it be.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

For me, this car was a summer project. I spent $1300 total (in 2008) The low cost was from using many salvaged/recycled/used parts.

[@phillpauley6672]

Oh... I wanted to know how to get a heater to work in an electric car.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Here's some info about heat in this and other cars: 300mpg.org/projects/electro-metro/heat/

[@ajw6715]

Why not use lithium ion batteries? A lot lighter and better.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Please take a look at the video description. This is an electric car I built 10 years ago. At that time, lithium batteries were EXTREMELY expensive. Now, lithium batteries are definitely the way to go. For a more recent project of mine using Lithium batteries, please search this KZbin channel for "Vectrix".

[@TourmalineHealer]

I want to create a business out of this Just converting i.c.e >⚡️powered all day Help slow the emission release and people will do it, especially if I can put together some sort of deductible-system on the price of the conversion as financial incentive for possible clients to get them a decent amount out of it; it being the right thing to do ISNT enough to convince most people but if they are gonna save/make money from it?: oh yeah, they’ll dive on it

[@stevehauk]

he acts like it's nothing. It would take me years to do this.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Frankly, it DID take me a year to do this. It was a long summer project, and then I tinkered around with it quite a bit after that. At the time, I couldn't find any good instruction on how to do a project like this. So, I made the instructional video when I was done to help others be able to do it. There were certainly times working on the project where I felt frustrated or like I didn't know what I was doing. I read, met new people, asked for help, and did whatever I could to keep learning and do something I never thought I would be able to do. Before this project, pretty much the most I had done on a car was change oil. Trust me, if I was able to do something like this, so can you.

[@samanthamonaghan7579]

Redo audio

[@antman5474]

apart from the obvious (ie frozen water) ICE means in car entertainment and de-iceing is what you do to your windshield in the winter. What you're doing is an electric car conversion. Adding fancy jargon just confuses things. I wish you every success though.

[@lovelacetom007]

Where are you from? why you pronounce vehicle no H. not like usa ppl?

[@carlsapartments8931]

Your video is called "build your own electric vehicle" do you honestly think that anyone interested in such a task needs you to talk down to them like they have no idea at all what they are doing and can't even find the engine or gas tank without your help?

[@s977382]

If your purpose was to suggest a better way to present the material for this video, then I’m sure there was a nicer way to do so.

[@alisaen2128]

I learned alot from him

[@jaredbennetts8056]

He's catering to all, even the technically challenged.

[@jerrybennett7856]

I was an aircraft mechanic for 48 years. Over the years I have met many mechanics like you. He was not explaining things for some one as experienced an as knowledgeable as you are. I lived how he explained everything in such detail that even my, very creative, wife could do this conversion. Karen

[@-fuk57]

This is not very good. This video will be much more interesting if the host were literally deicing an electric vehicle.