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Ev Resto-mods are where it’s at
Oh hell yeah, I can keep my old toyota FOREVER
You know that “men only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting” meme?
For me it’s an electric Toyota Hilux. And not a new one, unless it’s one of the originals that’s been sealed away for decades.
unless it’s one of the originals that’s been sealed away for decades.
Can’t you just beam it out of storage, O’Brien?
Look, the temporal prime directive means I shouldn’t even be talking to you.
But if I had my ship you bet your arse.
Sign me up
the ones ive seen are either hobbyist janky or crazy expensive. im surprised this isnt a bigger thing already, but i dont want to pay > $30K to end up with 100 mile range and zero reliability assurance.
I’ve been following Edison Motors and they look the most promising for pickup trucks. You can get the electric Mustang motor as a new crate engine if you don’t want to pull a Tesla rear end from a totaled car.
Ooh, I’ll have to remember them in the unlikely event that I ever have money. I want nothing more than a 80s F150 retrofit to be all electric.
Retrofitting kits, many of which are available on online marketplaces like Alibaba or MercadoLibre, often don’t guarantee a “minimum level of safety and quality for the retrofit unit,” Rojas said.
They’ve been telling us the same lying bullshit about computers and phones for 40 fucking years.
I have dealt with a massive number of Li-Ion batteries and never punctured one, always properly disposed of them.
Like, a lot of this shit isn’t hard, and a lot of the pooh-poohing about safety comes from often are industry plants who basically exist to gatekeep people from being able to be in full control of the things they purchase.
Since the practice is largely a DIY process, there are no official statistics on the retrofitting industry in Latin America. Many retrofitting jobs are done “by tinkerers who seek to extend the life of their petrol cars since they can’t afford a new electric one,” Adolfo Rojas, president of the Association of Entrepreneurs to Promote Electric Vehicles in Peru, told Rest of World.
Hmmm, let’s see if we can find more about this Rojas guy.
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/national-agency-pitched-to-advance-electromobility-in-peru
The creation of a national electromobility agency will be crucial to incorporate electric vehicles in Peru, according to local market executive Adolfo Rojas.
Rojas, advisory council president of the country’s electric vehicle business development and promotion association AEDiVE, made the comment during Prensa Grupo’s ElectroTransporte online event.
Agency participants would include public institutions, industry groups, associations, academia, and cooperation funds, he said.
A broader package of economic incentives will also be fundamental, from tax breaks to preferential insurance, added Rojas, who highlighted the opportunities from the build-out of electromobility for domestic industry, such as development of lithium batteries.
Another key driver will be the implementation of charging infrastructure, said Rojas, who announced that AEDiVE is drafting a related national expansion plan with highway concessionaires, power distributors and companies interested in installing such infrastructure that will be released in two months.
The energy and mines ministry recently released a draft decree to approve the regulation for the installation and operation of electromobility charging infrastructure.
No offense intended to Rojas, who I’m sure is a decent enough of a person, but the related article I found about him makes him certainly sound like he’s a traditional business guy bureaucrat and so that says to me that at least part of the reason he speaks against conversions is because conversions impact all the business plans and bureaucracy he is working on.
By his LinkedIn, he’s an executive of some type at Sustainablearth LATAM, a solar company.
Just personal opinion, Rojas is biased. Doesn’t make him a bad person, but people within the industry generally don’t like people fixing their own devices. That’s a service they want people to have to pay for.
And let’s not forget all the “professionally” built cars with lithium fires and explosions. The pros fuck up just as much as the hobbies, possibly more often.
Yeah, I’m debating getting a Chevy Bolt, but I’m a bit worried about them catching on fire.
I’d be a lot more comfortable buying from a local retrofit org, because they have a lot more to lose if things go sideways. Most of the issues are from shoddy work, meaning underpaid workers who don’t care enough to do a good job soldering leads or whatever. A local shop that needs sales in order to eat will care a lot more about making sure the battery packs and whatnot are high quality.
And all of the petro cars accidents caused by failing vehicles, which is what these are replacing.
I mean I’m sure 98% of these people would take a new car for the same price and maintenance schedule (not a subscription to a car…). I mean I would, despite also being a big fan of DIY and self reliance. That said they aren’t, so instead this option makes sense for people like us.
I stared at that thumbnail for a solid 10 seconds trying to figure out why there was a water cooled GPU in someone’s trunk
