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| Thread ID: 150053 | 2021-08-20 21:34:00 | Classic Bentlys, Rolls Royce, adapted to electric | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1479891 | 2021-08-20 21:34:00 | Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. In a world-first, Lunaz adapts the cars in a process which takes about 26 weeks and starts at £350,000 ($478,000, 405,000 euros). That, of course, is on top of the original purchase price of £350,000. Being such big and heavy vehicles, I would have thought that it would take quite a big electric motor. www.bbc.co.uk |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1479892 | 2021-08-20 21:52:00 | Electric motors don't need to be all that large physically to have a lot of power and torque, it's the batteries that need to be big. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1479893 | 2021-08-20 22:01:00 | Electric motors don't need to be all that large physically to have a lot of power and torque, it's the batteries that need to be big. If that's the case I wonder where they would put the batteries. Do you think there would be enough room in the boot?:confused: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1479894 | 2021-08-20 23:08:00 | I like that a lot, perhaps the batteries fit in the space where the fuel tank was, as well as in the engine bay as the electric motor will likely be smaller as dugimodo mentioned. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1479895 | 2021-08-20 23:50:00 | Bugger, nearly $1M to get my 2 RR's done! Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1479896 | 2021-08-21 05:20:00 | Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. ] Oh god. Many in the clubs won't approve, even repainting in non-traditional colours was frowned on by some. It's not exactly a classic now is it....whats next, the hotrods? |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1479897 | 2021-08-22 01:40:00 | Given that the above mentioned vehicles started life riddled with Lucas :badpc: , any change to give them an electrical assist would be a major step forward. :banana:banana | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1479898 | 2021-08-23 22:01:00 | I don't think so, unless they strip out all the LUcas first and replace them also. More likely to cause more issues....... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1479899 | 2021-08-23 23:00:00 | If that's the case I wonder where they would put the batteries. Do you think there would be enough room in the boot?:confused: Thats one issue with these conversions. Some batts go in the boot, some in the engine bay (electric motors are very small) , some where the gas tank was. Batts go anywhere they can find a space some interesting youtube channels on all this this guy is DIY converting his hummer to electric. The electric motor is tiny compared to the original www.youtube.com this guy(Rich rebuilds) is converting a Telsa to V8 petrol power :-) www.youtube.com He also give a rundown of the new Tesla Plaid, supposedly the faster the million dollar supercars www.youtube.com |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1479900 | 2021-08-24 01:58:00 | Given that the above mentioned vehicles started life riddled with Lucas :badpc: , any change to give them an electrical assist would be a major step forward. :banana:banana ...and "Smiths Precisely Accurate Speedometers" (Copyright) Ken :clap:clap |
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