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There is maybe also a market for "re-manufacturing" ICE cars as battery ones.

by rjsw 5y ago

samwillis 5y ago
As much as that sounds like a nice idea ICE and BEV are so fundamentally different I think it’s incredibly unlikely. To properly take advantage of BEVs the drive chain is very different resulting in an incompatible mechanical structure. Also battery’s are very heavy (BEVs are significantly heavier than their ICE equivalents) which is why the battery’s are placed as low as possible. Retrofitting battery’s into ICE to make a BEV would result in a very bad and potentially dangerous weight distribution. That’s not to say there aren’t components from an ICE that can’t be reused if they haven’t reached the end of their useful life (much of the interior for example). However there is already a good scrap market for these and so I think it’s unlikely manufactures will do it themselves.
- rjsw 5y ago
  There are plenty of recent TV programmes that show turning classic ICE cars into a BEV, typical range seems to be about 150 miles which would be fine for a lot of people. I'm just thinking that this could be done in a more systematic way instead of custom builds. The alternative is to completely replace every current car with a new BEV, I don't think this can be done quickly enough or at low enough cost for most people.
  - samwillis 5y ago
    Quite right, and there is definitely going to be a cottage industry of ICE to BEV conversions but I don’t see it as something that manufactures will want to get involved with due to the compromises needed.
- jethro_tell 5y ago
  You can already buy a battery Ford 351 crate motor and it's a drop in replacement for an ICE, you gotta do the batteries and we need to replace the heater with something electric, little baby heat pump. Working on doing one now on a truck out at the family farm. I think this is going to be more common as we move away from ICE.

There is maybe also a market for "re-manufacturing" ICE cars as battery ones.

by rjsw 5y ago

There is maybe also a market for "re-manufacturing" ICE cars as battery ones.

As much as that sounds like a nice idea ICE and BEV are so fundamentally different I think it’s incredibly unlikely. To properly take advantage of BEVs the drive chain is very different resulting in an incompatible mechanical structure. Also battery’s are very heavy (BEVs are significantly heavier than their ICE equivalents) which is why the battery’s are placed as low as possible. Retrofitting battery’s into ICE to make a BEV would result in a very bad and potentially dangerous weight distribution. That’s not to say there aren’t components from an ICE that can’t be reused if they haven’t reached the end of their useful life (much of the interior for example). However there is already a good scrap market for these and so I think it’s unlikely manufactures will do it themselves.

rjsw 5y ago
There are plenty of recent TV programmes that show turning classic ICE cars into a BEV, typical range seems to be about 150 miles which would be fine for a lot of people. I'm just thinking that this could be done in a more systematic way instead of custom builds. The alternative is to completely replace every current car with a new BEV, I don't think this can be done quickly enough or at low enough cost for most people.
- samwillis 5y ago
  Quite right, and there is definitely going to be a cottage industry of ICE to BEV conversions but I don’t see it as something that manufactures will want to get involved with due to the compromises needed.
jethro_tell 5y ago
You can already buy a battery Ford 351 crate motor and it's a drop in replacement for an ICE, you gotta do the batteries and we need to replace the heater with something electric, little baby heat pump. Working on doing one now on a truck out at the family farm. I think this is going to be more common as we move away from ICE.