Creating Electric Classic Cars - ECO CLASSICS | Fully Charged PLUS

[@peterjol]

I absolutely love seeing these old cars being converted and upgraded to electric..always looking for videos to watch of people doing the conversions.

[@john3Lee]

A great feature... great content.... Thanks

[@shadvaira3231]

Thanks man

[@stevesurf22]

What a gorgeous car! Love it

[@Dudleymiddleton]

2:44 Beautiful car with a happy face!

[@stigohara4961]

A kit for VW T3 Vanagons please.... 🙏

[@frejaresund3770]

I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.

[@infotalesinspirations1176]

Very nice, it is such a cute car

[@iTeerRex]

People want a kit that is economical, gut out a classic and drop it in, not cost as much as the car itself. That said, it’s a lovely car this 911.

[@Alex-tj1zo]

The E-Type would be my first choice ...😁

[@philtucker1224]

I’m not absolutely sure why a historic or classic car might need an electric motor? These cars are rarely used for daily driving and mainly owned so that people can admire them at a show or maybe the odd field trial. In the case of an old 911 for instance, a very significant part of its heritage value is in the beautiful “original spec” 6 cylinder Boxer engine…- am I wrong?

[@awo1fman]

This is great, but the cost needs to come down drastically. I really want to do a couple of conversions myself, but the prices are just ridiculous. I've been following the EV world since before the original Tesla Roadster, and it bothers me to no end that there are still no sources for generic, modular kits that can be applied to any car, and the worst thing is the prices. They are still massively artificially high. I've shopped around for parts, and there's no way it cost anything like £65k to convert that Porsche. A gigantic portion of that is profit. All that talk about "engineering" is hogwash. Making adapters and mounts isn't rocket science, and neither is any of the rest of the conversion. People have been stuffing V8s into cars that were designed for 4-bangers in their back yards for the better part of a century, and that is far more difficult than replacing ICE with electric. There are none of the issues with mechanical linkages or physical clearances, because controls and components are connected with flexible wires that can run anywhere and the components themselves are much more compact. Battery packs can be distributed around the vehicle and don't need to be one monolithic block like a fuel tank. But if components and kits were easily available and reasonably priced, then evrybody would be doing it themselves, and we can't have that...

[@chargeheadsuk]

This car looks familiar. I can confirm it goes like stink!!! 💪⚡👍

[@timseytiger9280]

I was waiting for Robert to ask about the type of motor fitted :(

[@adamskiuk]

Good luck flooring it from Maidenhead to London everyday on the M4!

[@knowledgebyte]

Very nice..price. I’ll look out for an old Boxster and buy a conversion kit once the prices come down. For the rich right now. Premium rate conversion for people with retirement money to burn, me thinks. Nice conversion though. Please do a drive of the car, so we can see how it goes.

[@joeking4206]

I can't believe you didn't show the interior, motor or drivetrain. Why not?

[@bernardthedisappointedowl6938]

When there's a kit that'll convert my old jalopy to electric with a modest range and sane power levels for under £5000 I'll be much more interested - just a bit tired of everything electric being 'exclusive', ^oo^

[@TheKitneys]

The price of this ECC is shocking (pun intended).

[@Ryukachoo]

Unfortunately, by not using any Tesla parts and only using new parts they are dooming these particular conversions to be wildly overpriced for the specs and have very little support beyond the two or three year warranty

[@bobeden5027]

I prefer that other mob doing classic conversions.

[@wobby1516]

I wonder could they convert my 2cv. Lol

[@joenye43]

Sandy - you called it so clearly that's its painful to think of the outcomes GM could have OWNED THE EV MARKET -THEY LiTERALY CRUSHED their lead - GM deserves failure. Boeing was an airplane designer& Manufacturer until the the quants moved the company to Chicago and finance dictated Safety and Design >

[@stum8374]

Why can we not convert peoples everyday cars to electric then there might b more evs running about and it won't cost as much as a second hand ev and ultimately they will be less pollution because we won't b building new evs or putting perfectly good cars to scrappies.

[@EleanorPeterson]

I'm not doubting the performance for an instant - of course EVs are fast (yawn) - but driving is about much more than acceleration and speed. (That's why so many people can't see any point in Merkin drag-racing and muscle-cars.) Speed is perhaps 45% of the mix. Maybe 50. The whole point of owning or driving a classic car is savouring the things that made it a classic in the first place. ALL the things, including the bad, dangerous, difficult, inefficient ones. If you don't want archaisms, buy a modern EV. It's the equivalent of an 'app' for drivers who hate driving. Switch it on, turn it up to eleven, press the quiet pedal, go fast. And then what? Check your phone for messages? Play with the infotainment screen? Muck around with the regenerative braking settings? Ask yourself if your journey was really necessary? Most journeys aren't. So if I drive a classic, I want to indulge myself. I want the whole experience: three pedals, manual gearbox, heel-and-toe changes, original handling foibles, the smell, the noise, the skinned knuckles and dirty fingernails after a gloriously frustrating weekend of tinkering under the bonnet, all of it. I understand why people want to do this to cars they claim to love, but no amount of electric speed will ever replace what's missing. It almost depresses me that so many people don't get that.

[@Burtis89]

Some people live the look but can't be arsed with the wonky old engines. Personally I'm all for it if it means it saves more cars and they get more use which in turn means thoes who can't afford them get to see them out and about more (myself included) 🙂

[@croxish]

You mean things like getting in and wondering if it's going to start? That's fine if it's a hobby car I suppose...

[@вантузмен-ш6л]

👎👎👎

[@leored79]

Arguably, in throwing out the existing drive drain and replacing it with this electric uni t, with all the CO2 created through its production, the car probably has an even larger environmental footprint than before!!

[@croxish]

And if the engine's siezed and un salvageable, you could save even more CO2 by sending it straight to the scrappers...

[@malcolm8564]

Increasing the power increases the electricity consumption for no good reason. This is just wasteful. Other people need electricity too.

[@IanParker]

oh how sad.. sacrilege, a beautiful noisy sports car, going electric... so, so sad! (huge sigh)

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Yes - I agree, maybe the only 'fix' is a sound system to replicate it, but probably need too many speakers! lol

[@chargeheadsuk]

I've driven it and its amazing and sounds great inside 🤷‍♂️⚡💪

[@edwyncorteen1527]

No, best thing to do to these cars, take the motor and gear box out, have these in your garage to tinker with, meanwhile you have a classic car you can actually use every day!

[@Brian-om2hh]

Ironically, rather similar comments were made when it was suggested motor cars could replace horses 120 years ago. Your love of an i.c. engine along with the noise it produces is learned. You will be able to unlearn it....