Featured Reversible EV Conversion

On the fence here. Lugging around a 10lb gold chain and keeping it safe sounds like it could build a lot of character.

 

You'll start pitying fools.

 

A couple final points... 1) EV vehicles depend on a lightweight vehicle design, so an old thick steel tank of a sports car with an EV system might be fine for puttering around town, maybe even racing golf carts, but do you really want a classic sports car to be pathetically slow? 2) If you want any kind of range with a heavy old car converted to EV you're gonna need some serious battery weight and when it comes to safety, all that extra weight is not part of the vehicle's original crash safety design, so the odds of the vehicle being a death trap will go way up when you convert it.

 

The most interesting part of this story is he had his car sent in boxes to his home where he put the whole thing together himself using the easy to understand instruction booklet and three sizes of allen wrenches.

Mike

 

The implication in the original post was that the U.K. was going to completely ban all ICE engines in urban areas in the near future. So, the choice isn't EV or ICE, it's EV or nothing. Politically, I don't see how they're going to pull this off, but I guess Aston Martin knows something we don't...

 

not exactly - there's also the train, biking & the tube (subway), all of which have been in-vogue around London for quite some number of decades not to mention telecommuting, for the many workers who can do that kind of stuff right from their home.

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all still add up to nothing, since nothing, in this particular case, is defined as not ever being permitted to drive your very expensive Aston Martin inside the city limits.

This isn't a discussion about cars versus public/green transportation (all of which I'm very much in favor of), it's a discussion about Aston Martin's new program of EV conversions. I was wondering how the cities were going to react to the news of a vintage ICE engine ban, given how many cars would instantly become useless/worthless to city dwellers...
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adding up to nothing is very apropos. That's because less than ⅛ of 1% can even afford an Aston Martin in the Uk busy City areas, much less choose to buy one over some other luxury car. So maybe the real question ought to be, since this applies to virtually no one - maybe 100 people out of all congested city drivers - where is the issue.

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is there an issue? i thought db was building a reversible ev system?

 

In Germany, Berlin and Munich plan to ban ICE vehicles by about 2020 or so, IIRC. China got a head start in building small EVs such as ebikes and scooters in part because several of their largest cities began banning ICE vehicles in the inner city areas as I rcall already in 2010 or thereabouts. So that shift to “EV or nothing” for personal ground transportation in large cities has already begun in my view.
But electric airplanes are much more exciting, and Norway will require all domestic commercial airline flights to be electric by 2040-2050 (?). So if I I live long enough, I can conceivably borrow one of their drive units, install it in an appropriate airframe, and get back to flying.

 

Lol... When it comes to Brexit there is no before or after... Simply an effort to do something that was never meant to be. It finally happened, someone finally colonized the UK and there's not a dang thing they're gonna do about it.

 

It won't be instantly. Then the areas in question already have decent to great public transit. Between that and traffic, cars are already pretty much worthless to city dwellers.

 

Does this mean there's still hope for the Yugo?

 

Funny you say that, was thinking the Yugo myself. Lol

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Plasma out performs oil slicks. It's shocking, I know. But true.