electric car: bye bye petroleum

convert your gas engine car/truck to electric. up to 50 miles on a single charge

[@rock3tcatU233]

@Texmurphy51 And how much energy does it take to: 1. Drill for oil 2. Ship it to a refinery 3. Refine it (now that's an efficient process) 4. Store it. 5. Transport it to you local gas station. 6. Store it. 7. And use it in an ICE with an efficiency of under 20%... Yeah you're better off using electric power. :D

[@filmrancher]

I like it. just saw Running On Lithium and that I like much more.

[@SpiritsoftheWolf]

well that is true, BUT, its a hell of a lot better than having a burned out electric motor in the middle of nowhere :P

[@firebourn]

for ever 50 cent increase in gas it's a $500 saving for an EV owner. On average EV owners save >$1000/year. A article posted on brammo's news feed confirms this.

[@jztrombone]

@gratedrake1 most of the problem is weight. Cars back then didn't weigh nearly as much as they do now...all the safety features, creature comforts, materials used and what not is very different from back in the 1920's where for example tires where much thinner, cars were made out of thin metal with no safety engineering at all, not to mention forget about A/C and gigantic comfy leather seats like we have today. It does suck though that we can't build cars with high travel range.

[@MPaulHolmesMPH]

Yeah! With the EEStor ultracaps. I talked with EESTor's president (Richard Weir), and he said they are making excellent progress with it. I'm really excited!

[@cyberlord64]

a power factor correction capasitor when used on ac current can save you up to 60% of energy depending on your load.

[@cycimian]

cant7think7clearly. Loved your honest analogy of basic norms as to status quo, seems going green does have big Energy shitting when the truth is known,

[@bobbobbledy221]

actually. electricity is everywhere around us at all times.

[@bored1980]

Curiously, those who complain about pollution from electric cars & hybrids don't actually give a shit about carbon output or climate change - they just think they have a valid argument against these vehicles. They don't however, as even a simple Google search will show.

[@cyberlord64]

an electric car doesn't need air so as long as it uses water proof motors (usually brushless dc motors) and enclosed circutry it can run just fine fully submerged. let's not forget that the early submarines used electric power when submerged.

[@zcm007attack]

If that truck has a good range, and a top speed of at least 80mph, I would surely buy it once available.

[@KiwiEVadventures]

You can really only expect so much for a $2000 US battery budget. If I could afford Lithium Ion batteries then sure, I could 200+ miles but alas, tight budgets are restrictive. :(

[@salemcripple]

@cyberlord64 They still do as far as i know. Only now they are powered by power turbines (which in turn is powered by steam from the nuclear reactor). Where as previous designs were powered by a bank of lead acid batteries that had to be charged with a diesel engine. If newer submarines were powered directly by the turbines, it would require a gearbox, which is very noisy. And in case you didn't know, noise is a bad thing (even deadly) on a submarine.

[@azamar1000]

and charging the batteries would cost you from $0.30 cents up to $1.50 dollars, this is awesome!

[@fizzguts]

@available724 "you have to change batteries every certain amount of cycles, which cost thousands of dollars, the fact that was somehow not told in this video and other vids about electric cars" And that should be tattooed on the forehead of every EV enthusiast. Hat tip to you for stating the ugly truth all these EV nuts will not talk about.

[@Zamboro]

Google "Project Better Place". They're building battry swap stations as you describe, but an "eMiles" system so you pay for the maintinence and replacement of the batteries as you drive (8 cents per mile) You can only get compatible cars from Nissan, Renault and Tesla however. For the time being anyway.

[@mre2u2]

Fantastic. Less than $30,000 for a NEW EV (

[@SamuraiClinton]

OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I wanna see a Suburban be converted to an EV. Therefore we can haul 9 with just electricity!

[@terry1919]

with Gasoline now exceeding $4.30 a gallon makes these vehicles more attractive

[@sierracuban]

We will also have cars that run on compressed air, ( See Zero Pollution Motors ) and cars that will get over 100 miles per gallon, ( See Aptera Motors ) Besides that, electricity will be made from solar and wind, so that oil will become a memory from the past....

[@katakisLives]

I can't see petrol going away anytime soon! there are still many hurdles to make electric cars as user friendly as petrol cars

[@Archimedes555453525]

This is the future anyway. It'd be smart to adapt Bye bye petroleum

[@c33r0k33]

Go Fox Valley Electric Auto Association!!!! I didn't know you had this video. Super. My 2002 hybrid Insight has a couple 200k on it and the NiMH batteries don't show any sign of wear. If and when it begins to fade I'm definitely going pure EV and may call on you all. Any thoughts about the Firefly foam lead batteries since we can't get any Panasonic NiMH's anymore? (Or can we?)

[@filipinofighter1]

daniel dingel water car invention is better than any body else....

[@cyborgtroy]

Actually I think the motor usually outlasts the rest of the car. Of course, if something goes wrong in the vast number of moving parts in my gasoline engine in the middle of nowhere....

[@pbmartin14]

wow thats alot, i would say all the parts i used for my conversion including batteries and everything was only around 2250 CND...

[@baldandold]

i am SO hacked off with fuel prices, i have a ford mondeo and do 150 miles a day, i need a maximum speed of 80mph, can i get this with electric power? cheers

[@taurus29]

much less than that since there won't be oil changes and other type of maintenance. In long term it will be a lot worth

[@hambone9119]

i was thinking about converting to LPG gas, but if it is cost efficent i will convert my old Panal Van, you yanks would call it a truck , but its an Australian Falcon you can see it on my youtube page i do love it, and would consider keeping it for as long as possible.

[@Camaro69z]

So to convert a car at that shop, it's roughly $15,000 all together. It would take what, 3 years to make up the costs of gas?

[@ukrainesov21]

I support EVs with both my hands!!

[@GANTZ100pts]

yea but can we buy them or do they just lease them like GM did with on option to buy.

[@icelineman]

These builders still need oil to make the parts for the car and plastic for the wires and tires , and if all cars would become electric the cost of power would go way up, so it's not as perfect as they think. So they should not say bye bye to soon.

[@tommee10533]

I had built one, but it failed

[@theoneagain]

ev drive is the futur THEY NEED TO START MANUFACTURING THESE SOON

[@guslingus]

Yeah i thought that would be cool if it slid out on rollers and a new pack just slid right in..

[@mre2u2]

Not all electricity is produced that way.. some (a growing fraction) electric power is produced throught "green" or renewable sources, such as wind

[@tsport100]

You don't know what you're talking about! An average gas car costs about $20 per 100km while an EV costs more like $1.00 per 100km. At $0.08 a Kw/hr the cost of running an EV is 1/20 to 1/30th the cost of driving a petrol ICE.

[@fairyheli2]

@gilessmokey it's not feasible to have renewable energy for a country smaller than texas with over a 1/4 of the us population

[@cycimian]

Seems they still not have utubed salt water fule or Stan the late murdered Myers water powered car, what was amazing about Myers USA PATENTS< was that there was no gas collection chamber which renderes electroylosis redundent, chect it out its UTubed as well

[@THMTRXMN]

First of its not an "engine" its a motor, and its not the motor that has issues its the batteries, and production electric cars would use lithium ion batteries not lead acid(Like the one to start your car) which have better energy density, and allow one to go upto 250 300 miles before recharging, and can be charged in 2 hours OR less with new battery technology, GM already made a practical one but then crushed it because the didn't want to change.

[@QuebecoisSti]

where to purchase it and how much ?

[@bored1980]

Prove me wrong.

[@keoki1978]

with todays gas prices near $3 a gallon and say your driving 10,000 miles a year, and your truck gets the best of 17mpg light footing it around. that means it would take 8.5 years to burn $15K worth of gas. $15,000/$3 = 5000 gallons of gas. 5000 ga x 17mpg = 85000 miles worth of driving / 10,000 miles per year = 8.5 years.. This number will go down the higher gas cost or go up the better MPG your vehicle gets.

[@jonnyasprin]

Citgo gas station buys their fuel from Venezuela

[@DialogueGuy]

Oh and you think your car sprang up from thin air? At least my vehicle stops polluting once it it manufactured. No burning, leaking oil or toxic oil changes.

[@fairyheli2]

@gilessmokey in England we have uranium

[@MPaulHolmesMPH]

Volt will have 40 mile electric range. My home conversion will cost $3000, and will have a range of 45 miles. The Volt will cost about $35,000. That's just embarrassing. Plus, I hate GM after they and Chevron killed larger than 10 AmpHr NiMH battery distribution. They sued Panasonic for trying to use them. GM should bow to the Japanese.

[@techmaven5900]

9 grand for parts?? What a thief that guy is. My buddy just converted his Tercel with a 19hp forklift motor and a slew of batteries for under 2k.

[@koty123frontiernet]

You can buy a lot of gas for $14,000...

[@sockosockosocko]

i doubt it's coming from petro. more likely coal which in these electric cars translates to WAAY cheaper and WAAY cleaner than gasoline.

[@fredrhodes4306]

You are screwed if you need to go over 50 miles. He could get there but he couldn't get home. Exactly the problem with these cars. Tesla = $100 k to get any kind of good range. And $15K to retrofit is too much, it will never pencil out. I own 2 Prius Plug In's, they are cool and get awesome mileage but the plug in feature really doesn't contribute much unless you are doing mostly very short trips.

[@stevencorrea9722]

Fred Rhodes Lucent Technologies 600mah battery is here

[@DialogueGuy]

My solar panels on my home charge my EV and reduce my electric bill.

[@JTyler52]

I think that eventually these will be worth if your just driving to work or back. but when it comes to hauling and stuff like that its not gonna be effieceint and think about construction vehicles it will never work for them! overall there not worth it.

[@mre2u2]

50 MILES? Sheesh, not good enough. Check out the Tesla. 200 miles on a charge. 0-60 in 4-5 seconds

[@SpiritsoftheWolf]

yea whatever, i will NEVER own an electric cars... too much money on batteries, not even worth my time recharging them, hell i would love to own a van that runs on nuclear power :P

[@Fastlan3]

he can't charge it at the news station?

[@jztrombone]

@gratedrake1 also don't forget that the power that we want today is MUCH more than what we had in the 20's, 300hp motors are a lot of power compared to maybe 20-40hp of back then.

[@cyborgtroy]

Why don't they just build electrics instead of leaving us with expensive one-off conversions? ~not-sarcasm~

[@SpiritsoftheWolf]

i will NEVER own an electric vechiles ever, too many trouble with electrical problems down the road cuz i used to have a golf cart and always having problems with it so i traded it to a gas golf cart and will soon convert it into propane E.V. suck, im sorry but they do

[@mebe2k]

uh, the reason why electric cars aren't everywhere is because they CAN'T GO ANYWHERE!..50 miles max range? really?and i'm sure those are easy and slow miles, not stop and go or highway miles! also add creature comforts like A/C and range will probably drop to 15 miles.also the heat we have here in summer (Phoenix, AZ) will seriously shorten the life of the batteries..and batteries are not cheap.battery technology has not come far enough yet to justify buying an EV right now.

[@DialogueGuy]

Batteries are recycled, your exhaust is not.

[@TheCossak86]

why in the hell would i convert my vette into electric , then it wont sound like a v8 at all

[@jeepcollector91]

Nicely done. But, unfortunately an electric car would never work for me. I would need more range and need to be able to recharge in an instant. Even if they were to add charging stations everywhere you park, I would be the one person that would have someone unplug it while I'm at work or asleep then I would be unable to get home. I'll stick to gas & diesel power. Would love to convert my Jeep to run on hydrogen if that ever becomes more available for auto fuel.

[@greatthoughts9371]

I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else wants to discover how to convert a car to electric car try Pyzork Amazing Electric Professor (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.

[@TheUnendingJourney]

@rock3tcat too bad that diesel generators make your electricity. electricity doesn't just come out of thin air

[@paulsavage33]

coal ware da hell u live lol prolly the usa but enw ays in canada we have hydro and nucular pwer mostly hydro runs by water the only down fall is it effects the enviorment a bit

[@the_chomper]

no anything right? just in 5 years when those lead acid batteries go to shit you have to spend another 6 grand to get it going agian LOL oh 5 years if your lucky IF your lucky

[@sockosockosocko]

hey tags, even if my EV is charged by all coal generated electricity, i'm STILL much cleaner than your gas car... internal combustion engines are something like 18% efficient. pathetic....

[@MrRemi528]

yeah we all think that this is a cleaner car except its acctually the same if not worse than the gas power car. why? because it takes coal to make that electricity...big hole in ur logic...your welcome...just buy the normal cars so u dont waste money and time...