Iconic 1965 Ford Mustang Uses Tesla Power For Second Life

Jerome meets the team at Inspire EV in Arvada, Colorado, to discover how they brought a first-generation Ford Mustang into the modern era. The result? "High Voltage," a Mustang that looks better than ever and boasts a powerful Tesla-powered heart by Revolt Systems
Discover Pat and the team’s work here: inspire.ev
Bolt-on systems by Revolt: revoltsystems.com
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[@EVSwap]

I had the privilege of driving this amazing Mustang and I was blown away. Not only is the power delivery incredible, but the handling and braking was equally as good! I was able to toss it through an auto-x like it was a set up race car. This is one of my favorite EV conversions ever! (My first car was a 64.5 Mustang!)

[@jimcabezola3051]

Oh, yeah! MUCH better than the "normal" resto-mod. Thanks for rescuing this car!

[@89five3five]

1000 ff lb of torque? Damn!

[@nevco8774]

Wonderful piece of movable historical art sculpture. The most awesome is this restomod not only saved the car but also made it daily drivable and highly desirable due to its driving characteristics.

[@speedracermatt]

So glad this channel was started.

[@jeromeandre4915]

Much appreciated, Matt.

[@adampotter9183]

yes, yes, yes.

[@adampotter9183]

This is an incredible conversion/resto-mod!! One of my personal favorites. Some of that is probably because I got to check out the "Model 'Stang", as I call it, in person last year at the car show part of our company picnic at Lightning eMotors. The work on this is so clean and blends the modern tech with the original looks and style inconspicuously. And the custom logos are a nice subtle finishing touch. Looking forward to seeing it again at S.O.C./Electrify Expo next weekend. Getting pumped!!

[@williamclark6466]

This is really nice. I love how you kept it as stock looking as possible.

[@darwinskeeper421]

I'm thrilled to see something about this car. I've seen pictures of it in the EV Builders Guide from time to time but had very little information on what it actually was.

[@jeromeandre4915]

Thanks. Please share the word about the channel!

[@dtallornothing]

Qilin is probably the most apt name for the Electric Pony

[@jeromeandre4915]

hell yeah!!!

[@urbanstrencan]

Icon done right, would love to see Camaro getting the same treatment 😊❤❤ Can't wait for EV resto mods to start using fast charging 😊

[@jeromeandre4915]

Funny you say that, Pat's new business partners are doing a 69 Camaro

[@InspireEV]

We have a 68 Camaro coming to SEMA24

[@Molishious]

I’m not sure if this came up but in Electric classic cars the presenter has stated that they leave the restoring of the car to someone else and focus on the conversion. I wonder if he would do it the same way starting with a car that needed work or leave that to someone else. Like the electric classic cars he left it to be able to be converted back, which is required in England. I wonder if he’d continue to do that, as I consider that we have an advantage with conversions that permanent changes can be made. This mustang is beautiful and quite the achievement. I’m glad he’s chosen to continue converting cars.

[@jeromeandre4915]

Most specialists aim to convert the best cars and avoid restoring them first. They bring value in converting them, not restoring them - there are plenty of talented restorers out there to work their magic.

[@4literv6]

It's not a mustang nor is a tesla anymore. Now it's a smooth running mostly silent sleek looking sleeper of a testang! 👍🏻😎 There is a much more radical awd dual tesla motor 67 being built by an Aussie with a custom chassis&the modules underneath the floor. Haven't seen an update on it in a while. But it was at one of the past Holley high voltage events.

[@jeromeandre4915]

"Testang'', that rocks!

[@4literv6]

@@jeromeandre4915 credit goes to username roadstercycle on here for his 2005 mustang gt he personally converted using a telsa ldu then ran high 11s with it for under 25k his cost pre pandemic. Managing 150miles real world range to I suggested testang&he adopted it back in 2021. Sold the car to aem who then used it in their Holley high voltage ev division for testing. He then built another s197 rwd but this time with a mich lighter cheaper tesla m3 du, and he has some other cool ev swaps on his channel(no updates for a long time though sadly. I tried to convince him to make a kit for converting s197s to use the tesla du and irs. His setup was almost completely bolt in to. That chassis totalled over 1,200,000 mustangs sold between late 2005&2014 when it was replaced by the s650 irs equipped chassis. A kit like that with the modular aem stuff and a modular battery design would go a long way to allowing easier CHEAPER diy elktromods. 👍🏻

[@EricDrummondBPCP]

That’s incredible do you know what I’ve always wanted to see a 90 Chevy caprice electric conversion and you know it would be nice if you can take the components out of the Chevy Silverado EV especially that big 200 kW battery and put it into a Chevy caprice now that would be something You would have range and power Great build though

[@thenerdyarab7622]

I want to buy this car.

[@InspireEV]

We can build you one!!!!!

[@shannonlawhorn1674]

Is that a J1772 or J3400 charge port?

[@electricandlspower]

He says j1772 plug.

[@InspireEV]

1772, but we have upgrades coming.

[@Kirby1969]

Very cool and clean car! But $40,000 for a drivetrain is out of the price range for the DIY EV gearhead.

[@jeromeandre4915]

I wonder how it compares to a brand new Coyotte + GBox and the rest of the drivetrain to compare apple to apple.

[@nevco8774]

Actually the price needs to be compared to a similar classic restomod with ICE engine. The main idea here is to have a daily drivable car with low maintenance and high number of smiles per mile. It has an awesome braking, stearing, stopping, suspension, and get and go power by comparison with a factory restored sample. This is not a Mustang but entire herd of them pulling/pushing this car through the wind smoothly like through butter.

[@Kirby1969]

@@jeromeandre4915 Straight from their website "Includes the following: • Motor • Inverter • Gear Reduction Box • Throttle pedal • 1350 Slip Yoke • Wiring Harness • T2C Controller (Batteries not included)" priced at $39,999.00. Plus the cost of the driveshaft and rear end. I LOVE the idea of EV swapping old vehicles. I currently have a 66 Mustang and a 69 Dodge A108 that will be swapped at some point. But I'm a blue collar guy. So this system (while very very cool) is way out of reach for average gear head.

[@InspireEV]

We had to put the biggest badest motor we could get at the time. But prices have gone down and available power has increased over the past couple of years