people love there cars, so a garage that rips out the engine connects a motor and battery and converts the cars to electric would be successful, they would no be as efficient you would need double batteries,
the point is nobody is converting yet
you don't have an infrastructure to swap out batteries on long road trips, and not enough charging stations / battery exchanges around towns for people in-town driving.
it'll come soon enough - within 30 years of so you'll have a LOT more electric cars out there
people that love there (old) cars will keep them and run them as a "historic-vehicle" (or how its legal-term called in your country), as an Oldtimer with special license plates, insurances, and also an environmental waiver when they are 25? or 30? years old.
and a have modern electric and even full-autonomous driving car obeying to the latest oppressing city and government regulations for their day to day use
in the beginning of that new times on longer travels people will still be forced for a unwanted stop at electric filling stations for an 1h stop and will have a meal or so while the batteries get fast-charged with high current.
btw
Great Britain plans no nonelectric cars after 2040, and some mayor city will prohibit inner-city access even sooner.
You can pry my internal combustion engine from my cold dead hands! :knuppel2:
I'm 2 years into a multi-year plan upgrade and modernize my 27 year old Miata. When done in three years I'll start racing her in auto-cross style competitions. :bd:
If yer not burning hydrocarbons, yer not having fun!! \m/
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 06:59:30 PM
You can pry my internal combustion engine from my cold dead hands! :knuppel2:
I'm 2 years into a multi-year plan upgrade and modernize my 27 year old Miata. When done in three years I'll start racing her in auto-cross style competitions. :bd:
If yer not burning hydrocarbons, yer not having fun!! \m/
Sez the man who works at the ginormus Flux Capacitor lab.
Great Scott, eh?
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 27, 2017, 07:33:50 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 06:59:30 PM
You can pry my internal combustion engine from my cold dead hands! :knuppel2:
I'm 2 years into a multi-year plan upgrade and modernize my 27 year old Miata. When done in three years I'll start racing her in auto-cross style competitions. :bd:
If yer not burning hydrocarbons, yer not having fun!! \m/
Sez the man who works at the ginormus Flux Capacitor lab.
Yeah... but they won't let me put it in my Delorean. :(
Those bastards!
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 27, 2017, 07:33:50 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 06:59:30 PM
You can pry my internal combustion engine from my cold dead hands! :knuppel2:
I'm 2 years into a multi-year plan upgrade and modernize my 27 year old Miata. When done in three years I'll start racing her in auto-cross style competitions. :bd:
If yer not burning hydrocarbons, yer not having fun!! \m/
Sez the man who works at the ginormus Flux Capacitor lab.
Yeah... but they won't let me put it in my Delorean. :(
Maybe your steam engine...
The Little Engine that Could Make it So.
if the government wanted a fast way of making us electric, then this is the way, but they want to make money from building cars, the technology for an electric car is a battery a motor and a switch yet they still charge for a combustion engine, the cost of electric tech is nothing compared to engine tech
What?!? The internal combustion engine, in it's basic form, is an incredibly simple machine.
Battery tech alone is very complex and they still can't make one that will take me across my province, even half way. Just ask Ghostrider.
Electric car tech is still way more expensive then internal combustion tech. And internal combustion tech really hasn't changed much in the last hundred years.
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 08:19:38 PM
What?!? The internal combustion engine, in it's basic form, is an incredibly simple machine.
Battery tech alone is very complex and they still can't make one that will take me across my province, even half way. Just ask Ghostrider.
Electric car tech is still way more expensive then internal combustion tech. And internal combustion tech really hasn't changed much in the last hundred years.
I havr built motots with a wire coil and iron and a battery, its simple, all your talking about is having enough power, that can be done with extra batteries or charging locations, they had good milk floats in the 60s that ran on electric. the combustion engine is complicated to make, it takes exact engineering, the motor is more forgiving and easy and practically no parts needed
The internal combustion engine the the most forgiving form of locomotion you can find.
When my engine stops working the only tools I need to get it going again are a hammer, a flat head screw driver and a can of WD-40.
If yer electric car breaks down in West Upper Butfuck, you'll need to find an electrical engineer to help you.
My current car has an engine that was built 27 years ago. There are model T Ford engines that still run. Show me one battery that can last that long.
Never mind the Model T, this still-running engine was built just after the American Civil War, One Hundred and Fifty years ago:
a battery can easily be popped in or out, its just two wires , just have a spare, and having studied stevensens rocket years ago with a steam piston and valves and motors, the easiest is motors, its just no ones learned it yet, I have looked at cam shafts and carberetors an oil and spark plugs and radiators and air filters and points and BATTERY and etc.. a motor is a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core with bushes to spin and keep connected and that's it.
let me give an example, with wire & iron metal bar and a few little things , an ordinary man could make an electric car in his garage, you cant make a combustion engine without expensive and complicated precise engineering tools.
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 27, 2017, 08:39:38 PM
Never mind the Model T, this still-running engine was built just after the American Civil War, One Hundred and Fifty years ago:
gameleaper, did you see this video. That is hardly expensive or complicated parts.
Also making the electric motor is as easy as you say. But that still will not help you when yer electric car breaks down because of an electrical fault.
if your car breaks down, you would not be able to fix it because the car makers are keeping you boxed out, whats needed is a motor box you can get into and tinker like you can with a car, there fooling everyone to buy £40,000 for a wire and a bit of iron, there laughing all the way to the bank. there putting a motor in a jaguar shell and selling you a jaguar price
Id go further and do away with charging stations, and have battery exchanges like they do with calor gaz in caravans
the simple combustion engines are simple , but for an ordinary man to mill and cut the metal parts etc.. is not what we could do ourselves.
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:49:00 PMput it in my Delorean. :(
wait, wait... you have a Delorean and you're working on a Miata instead?!?! (;) )
Today's been a helluva day, hasn't it? :DD
I hear drugs are big business and makes millions as well. Just sayin'.
Hey now! Think of the children!
And of all the tax revenue legalization can bring to their school budgets!
Quote from: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 08:19:38 PM
What?!? The internal combustion engine, in it's basic form, is an incredibly simple machine.
Battery tech alone is very complex and they still can't make one that will take me across my province, even half way. Just ask Ghostrider.
Electric car tech is still way more expensive then internal combustion tech. And internal combustion tech really hasn't changed much in the last hundred years.
I can buy a gas powered chain saw with 18 inch bar for like 170 bucks, that's pretty cheap fun.
^ Especially if you use it on someone's Delorean.
I would never to that to a made in Canada product... there's so few
Shoot, there's a place just down the road from me that sells 'em. For about 40K a pop, but still...there's a lot of them.
https://www.delorean.com/dmc-texas.htm
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I don't see any with the Doc Brown extras.
I'm sure there's kits out there you can buy to customize your ride if you so wish.