Electrified Classic Cars
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RallyCiaran
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Oh no there absolutely is. You don't dispose of them you recycle them. Big plant in Germany can recover something like 98% of the materials.
stevieturbo
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It'd probably cost £10k to get a cars batteries to Germany lol
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Personally I just don't see the point. Are you future proofing your classic or just doing it because its an itch to scratch? It's insane money to do it to a decent specification. I can see it now when folks in their home garages really start to get involved. There will be garages burnt to the ground on a weekly basis. It's dangerous enough stuff to be messing around with and when the batteries go up in smoke, they don't go out, no matter how much you try to extinguish them.
Leave it to the modern era and let the old stuff live out their twilight years gracefully.
All I can think here is, congratulations, you built a mk1 tesla, but worse
Leave it to the modern era and let the old stuff live out their twilight years gracefully.
All I can think here is, congratulations, you built a mk1 tesla, but worse
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I can see it becoming the next thing people want to be seen to be doing as a guy I know started. As already said there isn't much point with a lot of classics as many only do a few hundred miles a year. A fair bit of it is people with flash cars like Ferraris etc wanting to show off more by saying it's electric, although I'd say maintainance costs and reliability would be vastly improved! I'd say a fair percentage of classics on the road would be sub £5k cars and can't see anyone wanting to convert them unless they had to and it became a lot cheaper to do so.
The episodes of Vintage Voltage I watched were good and they did some lovely stuff, especially the BMW 02, but the money involved was crazy.
The episodes of Vintage Voltage I watched were good and they did some lovely stuff, especially the BMW 02, but the money involved was crazy.
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Neighbour did a tesla conversion on a vehicle. Wasn't a classic but I'd imagine same logic will apply, was nothing to do with being green, saving CO2, saving on fuel etc etc. It was simply because he could and had the means and skill to do so for the craic.
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I'd say that sort of thing will happen a lot more, it'll end up being like putting an 1.8T or TDi into a Mk2 Golf etc 15 years ago.
stevieturbo
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Personally I just don't see the point. Are you future proofing your classic or just doing it because its an itch to scratch? It's insane money to do it to a decent specification. I can see it now when folks in their home garages really start to get involved. There will be garages burnt to the ground on a weekly basis. It's dangerous enough stuff to be messing around with and when the batteries go up in smoke, they don't go out, no matter how much you try to extinguish them.
Leave it to the modern era and let the old stuff live out their twilight years gracefully.
All I can think here is, congratulations, you built a mk1 tesla, but worse
And it doesn't even touch on the legalities of it. Some are getting a by ball at present, but it seems that aspect is a minefield too with some testing/certification that needs to be done going to cost around £6k per vehicle....and that's assuming the install is correct and safe.
stevieturbo
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