This Rolls Royce Once Belonged To Johnny Cash - And Now It's a Tesla, Too

[@dougdiamond5774]

These guys are real pro’s. Beautiful job, and a true dream car.

[@brocluno01]

EV conversions from level I to 100 are the key to keeping gear heads and the planet happy. This is a really cool one. Hats off to all involved including the owners who had the vision. Well done all :)

[@jdavidadams7796]

I wanted more battery for my Cmax and I live in Albany so when I was there I saw and sat in the Rolls. Really cool.

[@genestatler2514]

Thanks a million for that video. That is one of the most interesting reports you've ever done, IMO. Love it!

[@rick67hou]

This is a very well done video. I watched it with my mouth wide open during the entire episode. The money dropped on this thing, even guesstimates put it at around 150. I'm just in awe. They deserve their own channel to be honest.

[@loungelizard836]

Holy crap, it's just like the Johnny Cash song ”Got it one piece at a time"! Volt-Corvette- Tesla-Rolls-Impala. Etc

[@JohnnyC10071959]

Coolest conversion in history. Congrats on the coverage.

[@mikeg7845]

I love the "i void warranties" t-shirt. Great conversation starter at a bar.

[@Quickicecarreviews123]

Wow that’s awesome! Did u shoot all that footage or was that already done for a documentary? Such a good job.

[@transportevolved]

Everything we used was shot by us :)

[@RossYoungblood]

This was a LOVELY video! Awesome engineering! Totally made my Saturday!

[@daves1646]

Thank you Nicki AND Shift Electric Vehicles. Awesome improvising in between the straight-forward bits. A lot of VERY CREATIVE IMPROVISATION!!!

[@duster497]

Something like this would be an awesomely weird daily driver!! Loved it!! Great video.

[@R_Time_Now]

That’s an amazing conversion...Love that they are sharing some of what that have learned on Open Source.

[@thelifeofbatteries2603]

i would love to see that at a supercharger, imagine the looks lol

[@Kiaranth]

That's my thought as well. Sure someone would get irked till they realize it is charging. But jesus... to drive up and see that beauty sitting there getting a sip would be a sight.

[@ai4px]

see it at a supercharger.... with a stocky Asian guy in a bowler hat named Odd Job..... for the win!!!

[@2nd3rd1st]

@@ai4px You mean "stocky" ^^

[@ai4px]

@@2nd3rd1st Good catch... autocorrect got me!

[@2nd3rd1st]

@@ai4px xD

[@stevewausa]

So lovely. The only downside I see is the inevitable disabling of supercharge capability.

[@charliedevine6869]

They should allow paid supercharging after you get it certified.

[@briandowling8372]

@@charliedevine6869 They did that and then rescinded them anyways after a while. Resulted in some very very annoyed owners.

[@Nyson]

Thank you for making it open source. Hats off.

[@CaroAbebe]

What a fantastic report, Transport Evolved team, thanks!! Great work those guys are doing!

[@leebiggs2844]

You know if you do an electric conversion with most old cars you'll hear lots of creaks, squeeks, and groans. Bit with the RR quality and refinement design elements the audio from the drive is nice, smooth, and quiet. Truly amazing conversion.

[@TheNJ54]

Outstanding segment, thank you for sharing!

[@pangit9999]

What an amazing no expense spared conversion. And you did a great job with the interviews and editing Nikki!

[@DouglasJMark]

Incredible. This is the ultimare electric conversion. Thank-you!

[@ronnielloyd4676]

That is amazing! Those guys REALLY know what they're doing! Kudos for you for getting such a great interview with them :) Well done team!

[@ericzoo6342]

NB, Thanks for this video. Informative and inspiring. Awesome work!

[@mjosmoo]

An amazing job done. What a team , you really got to respect the work that went into this. Real heart and passion put into it by all.

[@MichaelAntonFischer]

I wish they would mass-produce this. Old rolls like this often go for 20k or lower if the motor is bust.

[@loungelizard836]

Maybe they could get Tesla to sell the components? It would be a damn shame to kill a perfectly good Model S for every Rolls modified!

[@hitchslap8254]

Looks like at least 100k of work

[@islandconcierge9824]

Wow Im blown away....thanks again sincerely🙏💜☺ only the best content...empowering... truly evolved😎🙏💥

[@bluee_ev]

Thanks to the TEN team. Wow what a great find,

[@LasseThomsen]

Best episode in a long time

[@yuvallitvin]

Great interview! Thank you!

[@christopherhamilton5557]

My Dad had one of these (non-EV of course), back in the 70-80’s. It was an amazing car then and they are still beautiful. This was fun to watch.

[@rlitwin]

This is fantastic. Such a great project, and a great video. Thanks for sharing what these guys are doing.

[@ThalassTKynn]

This is an amazing conversion! Beautiful. I wish I had the skill to do this calibre of work. I would have a kick arse conversion haha

[@ThalassTKynn]

Also I really want a "I void warranties" t-shirt 😂

[@MS-dp3py]

Great video. Thanks for the awesome behind the scenes on this.

[@sidderssidley1163]

I guess they had to do 'One piece at a time' 😂

[@albxox]

You guys are totally absolutely insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrJohnthefarmer]

Thanks for sharing this. This is cool on so many levels.

[@jdear97]

Outrageously amazing work.

[@aaronmacy9134]

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

[@DKVXDK]

What a great feature Nikki and team!

[@hyperdrivee7922]

Beautiful in depth video. Great content! Thankyou.

[@Dr.Geek-ZA]

This is fracking amazing and incredible! Human ingeniousness has no bounds!

[@WailuaMark]

Astonishing! I'm amazed! Thanks for sharing this with us!

[@cj7286]

Amazing Job !! Whatever they got paid it wasn't enough that is a Million dollar job. CONGRATS to them !!!!!!

[@Semmster]

Masterful. Immensely satisfying to watch.

[@gordon1376]

A brilliant video, one of your best yet Great car.

[@pelewads]

Wow! Wouldn't expect to see something like that, out of Albany. Cool vid. I'd love to see other examples of their work.

[@pelewads]

@@tbird-z1r Actually, this is Albany, Oregon.

[@luisviola1496]

Great episode. Loved it.

[@nadieselgirl]

This makes me wish Tesla would sell its bits to the general public.

[@charliedevine6869]

They should sell all parts no-questions-asked.

[@nadieselgirl]

It would be normal, not just awesome. But they seem pretty greedy and even mainstream car makers look reasonable by comparison.

[@markguitarlfk]

Great work! Silver shadows are terrific cars that suffer from impractical 1970s engineering. They cry out for a practical EV solution. Same with 450SLs.

[@brendangarvin7787]

I'd love a Daimler DS420 with a Jaguar I-Pace's mechanicals.

[@charliedevine6869]

It is unreal the work that went into that. I would not want the bill for this conversion.

[@noeldillabough]

This is completely amazing; what a cool job!

[@kyleyork92]

Super professional production quality!

[@Ekevoo]

Lots of jargon in this episode. I mean, it's still enjoyable to hear these guys passionately geek out; but I'd enjoy it more if I knew what car parts they were talking about.

[@e.wintertashlin2903]

What an incredibly intricate and well executed conversion! And the video, from the lighting, image quality, editing, and the prompts used to elicit responses, is all top notch professional.

[@danielocegueda4399]

Wow, this is amazing! Very nice video 👌🏼

[@grumpyto5]

Great video of a lovely old bodied new car. Well done TE team. Just an aside, can't adjust your wipers on the move with that screen position..

[@ahaveland]

Maybe they could have a chief engineer in the trunk on an intercom just in case anything urgent needs tweaking on the fly...

[@okkeharr]

On model s (and x) the wipers are adjusted on the stalk, not the screen.

[@shawnholder6673]

This was great conversion

[@gsilva220]

considering the price of the donor car and everything, I think a call to an automotive systems developer (bosch, siemens, etc.) would've been a better Idea...

[@transportevolved]

The team are automotive systems developers. CAD, custom electronics. This isn’t your grandfather’s conversion.

[@bobkable1112]

@@transportevolved They're hackers, not developers. They aren't selling their own systems, they're hacking other people's. When they have their own systems on the market that anybody can buy (like the OP mentioned: Bosch, Siemens, etc.) you can call them developers.

[@robsmith1a]

I am often unsure about EV conversions of classics because with something such as a Ferrari the engine is often where the soul of the car is. In the case of a Rolls Royce however, it makes perfect sense to make something as quiet and smooth as possible.

[@jamespkinsella5018]

Just WOW. Fantastic really ingenious !

[@522549]

Amazing! I’m so impressed with the build quality! One thing I’d like to know is how does it charge, and can it supercharge? I mean with the cars computer functioning and the parts not coming from a total loss vehicle, I could say chances are good!

[@clinicacero9131]

This is the same car seen on pawn stars....the seller wanted $350,000 and Rick offered $50 ,000 so...no deal....sold for 80,000 in auction and thus now electric.

[@ecdubytecdubyt]

Very interesting. Amazing conversion!

[@matttherat8600]

I saw a Mike Brewers car show the other day where this was being done to various classic cars and I thought the Rolls Royce would be a great candidate for this type of conversion as they had advertising like "as quiet as a shadow", and the fact Sir Henry Royce was an Electrical Engineer, I think he would be pretty chuffed that these conversions are occurring to his vehicles.

[@ram64man]

Well done team

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

That was truly great

[@BooBaddyBig]

That must have been an absolutely nightmare.

[@CafeElectric]

😂

[@mikejf4377]

Very interesting video, very beautiful.

[@sbedard9906]

Amazing. The Supercharger plug, Chademo or CCS ?

[@forrestolney6836]

Wonder if it will super charge.

[@AdamPurcell]

Presumably not if it cannot connect to Tesla's servers (the Superchargers rely on the car for the communication).

[@bobkable1112]

@@AdamPurcell The Superchargers have their own communication with Tesla's servers, they don't rely on the car. However, they do ID the specific car. There are fail-safes in place in order to allow legitinate owners to charge without inconvenience in the case of minor non-safety-related issues that might allow them to get away with Supercharging a few times before they get banned, but long term there's no chance they could supercharge without making a deal with Tesla.

[@rafqueraf]

@@bobkable1112 how much hours to charge normally ?

[@pierresiry1039]

Congrat, real original podcast (and those guys are awsomes).

[@GR8auctions]

This sounds amazing to me… i was just thinking about doing ev conversion to rolls royce to realize that somebody has done it already… :) as far as i understood from the video you kept the original hydro-pneumatic suspension with some electric pump added? And also you put whole battery pack underneath the car or?

[@rolfkok9004]

Very nice done!

[@RussInGA]

now those guys are some good.. awesome

[@theproffessional9]

A tesla cockpit in the trunk 😂

[@ajaysingh-ls7yp]

Loved it.

[@simonreeves2017]

Tesla should market conversion kits, specialist firms can fabricate the vehicle specific interface mechanicals. Beautiful car, perfect for electrification, now it is as smooth and silent as RR would have wanted it to be.

[@hempev]

Would have liked to hear about mounting the battery.

[@donaldburkhard7932]

So will Tesla let you use supercharger?

[@bobkable1112]

Nope. Not a chance. They might get a few charges in before they get banned, but nothing useful.

[@KaceyGreen]

Great work conversion team and TE team!

[@MrJohnthefarmer]

I have heard that Tesla can lock you out of their charging network and can even prevent people from fast charging at any level 3 charging station if they choose. I assume that this vehicle would be unable to use the Tesla charging network but because it is connected to a private server, Tesla would be unable to prevent it from using non-Tesla level 3 charging stations. Thoughts?

[@TheViewFromUpHere]

Did they keep the Tesla L2 and supercharger charging or did they convert charging to J1772 and CCS?

[@Grumpycat95]

Is this the car that was featured on Pawn Stars?

[@T.S.T2014]

Totally Amazing!

[@lutomson3496]

How much was the conversion? very interesting especially for older cars

[@martythemartian99]

I much prefer a car like this that with care could last forever, rather than mass produced disposable cars built to last a decade or two at the most. This is why if I was to buy a new EV, first choice would be the Bollinger B2.

[@jozulik1]

Great video

[@WANDERER0070]

Fantastic job,,

[@cfrincon]

I would have much prefer to mate the Silver Shadow to the driving train of the newer Rolls Royce Phantom.

[@davidjacobs8558]

9:49 there is very little clearance, it will bottom out on any speed bumps and damage the battery module.

[@frenziemochies8404]

What are the charging options/capabilities after the conversion?

[@bisiroberto]

Where´s the charge port? How they accommodate the batteries?

[@omaralkayal7598]

I would honestly love to convert my car instead of buying a brand new EV and that is IF the conversion is cheaper than getting a new one

[@bobkable1112]

The thing that gets me about this is that if they spent half the time and resources they use to reverse engineer Tesla hardware on designing their own hardware from scratch they would end up with products that they could easily apply to any vehicle and they would be way ahead of the game. The fact that they don't just proves how far Tesla is ahead of everyone else and how hollow are the claims of all the trash talkers.

[@leebiggs2844]

Actually since the customer specified it be Tesla powered, they really had no choice but to do what they did. And what they did is AWESOME.

[@Cardifftoyboy1]

Joy of Joys....The best yet.

[@andrasbiro3007]

I'm guessing this conversion wasn't cheap.

[@onthefly7265]

Ingenious Ingenieurs... wow i bet this thing cost more than a million

[@D0li0]

OMG! otmar!!

[@richardgould-blueraven]

Impressive