When I was a kid we had an old broken down beetle sitting on our property for years until it got sold off. After watching this I can't tell you how disappointed I am that my parents did that. Would have loved to see it converted and then painted up to look like Herbie. Jump off the line of any red light just like the movie.
The acid test is to have two classics - same condition, same colour, same interior etc., but one has a restored engine and the other one is electric. I predict that the engine one would bring more pleasure but would only be driven very occasionally. The electric one would become the daily driver and ultimately the wife would force the sale of the ICE one due to lack of use.
@@dukeallen432 I think the point is that electric vehicles are really convenient, cheap to run and effortless to drive. They'll win the day on daily driving (of that I have no doubt) but the 'fun factor' won't be the same. To be honest I've lost the fun factor with modern internal combustion cars. Give me a 60's lotus elan sprint any day as my weekend playmobile.
I daily drive my classic. To real car enthusiasts and drivers, electric will never be the way, because we know it's not about speed, power or convenience. It's about sensation, how it feels, how it sounds, the power curve of an ICE, "tinkering" with your dizzy and carb. My classic daily only has about 60-70 bhp in it at the moment, but RWD and 500kg, you're not going to have more fun in anything else
Good on ya, Brewer. EV v ICE ? Naah - variety is the Spice of Life. As long as a million or two classic "combustibles" are preserved and available to hire worldwide for a century or two, we'll all be happy. And Jeez - if you don't like the serene, de-stressing, Zen-like tranquility of EVs(or of whisper-quiet Rolls Royces..) just turn up the volume of your surround-sound, bass-boosting in-car audio system - to 11 if need be.
But unfortunately the name Tesla is misleading. Tesla's vision of free energy was about something else. The name has been hijacked for an other form of slavery. And the burden on the electromagnetic environment is certainly not clean either.
@@marcelwijnen9037 If you have solar panels on your roof you can charge your electric car for free using your own energy. Have a battery storage solution like a Tesla powerwall and you can save all the energy you produce and use it to power your home and your EV. The name "Tesla" is not misleading - it does not imply free energy. It is simply a brand name derived from the inventor of the electric motor - Nicola Tesla. Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn't need to compromise to drive electric - that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. EVs are a lot greener/cleaner than internal combustion engines which cause more toxic pollution from their exhausts and kill more people every year than coronavirus. If you don't beleive me just sit in your garage with the garage door shut and your car engine running - see how long you last. www.tesla.com/en_GB/about?redirect=no
Nobody knows what will the future be like. Same story happened with low consumption light bulbs... now all on leds. I bet for low emissions petrol sooner than later.
Renewable Fuels .. produced by genetically engineered bacteria that use photosynthesis to directly poop out 100 Octane Fuel for $1.00 per gallon. Would rather see that, than waiting on Nuclear Power plants to charge up 6000 lb lithium cell EVs.
I own a MK1 Mexico, the way things are heading electric will be the only way to keep it on the road. I understand the need for the environment but I feel many classics will be lost.
They won't be lost by putting in an electric motor - they will be given a new lease of life. They will be faster, more fun and more reliable. EVs have around 20 moving parts versus around 2000 moving parts in an internal combustion engine (ICE). If you drive an EV you will never want to drive anything else.
Martin Woods agree with them being given a new lease but many will not be financially viable to convert and will end up either rotting away or scraped!
Martin Woods they will be devalued as the car is not original and I’m sorry any air cooled vw are slow and boring but converting a v8 mustang or any muscle car to electric is pointless and removes the point of owning a muscle car
@@evolution9774 Unfortunately, the way Tesla did their drive unit, no you can't. If you were dealing with a DC motor and a ramp-up circuit, you could install a 'cassette' type sequential transmission. It would, by the way, also increase the range a bit, since you wouldn't have to run the motor at top RPMs to maintain higher speeds. But you wouldn't have the drag strip queen stupid acceleration.
Depending how much weight you want & Money. Light weight sporty build would be 100 miles. Expensive heavy build could achieve 250 miles with latest tech.
For me no, No way. Keep saying the customer will drive their classic more? How?? Put your foot down as one does with a classic car, 80 miles and the battery is flat.... Good luck with that! I'll get involved when 1 they are affordable for working guys. 2 they can do 300 miles between charges and do 70 mph constantly. The technology is not there yet, don't kid yourself be a long while before you bully me out of my V8 Supercharged Range Rover 10 mpg Around town... Love it
LOL 80miles, you are soo wrong. Easily could do a Lead Foot 200 mile conversion build in anything that previously had a V8. 200mile driven hard is more than enough for most Classic Car usage.
Good grief. These are custom cars that these customers want. Nobody is telling you that you have to do the same. Put a steam engine in yours if you want. Nobody cares.
And as it isn,t totally original , it will only be worth a pittance of its original value. maybe later on in life new owners will throw away the junk and re-install original equipment.
douglas todd not with my van. It will only go up in value because it makes my car able to go into city centers. Which it currently can’t because of the old diesel motor. And because it’s a self-build camper it might be a good choice to make it into an ev when the engine is done. If it were a pristine bug, maybe.
Good evening really one of your biggest French fan we would like the voiceover in French and the really you would have in addition the 66 million French that would follow you good evening
This technology did not exist. BMS Managed volatile cells was only invented in the 1990s. Nothing like Passive Deep Cycle Batteries. It's basically babysitting a battery pack which wants to go on fire. Yet somehow it works great and is very safe. It was only in recent time we could build these Brutish Monster BEVs.
I used to be anti EV but now if i had money I'd love to have a old classic car converted to electric with more power and without all the fuel motor issues. And it's more and more people. So i think maybe the value doesn't go down.
“It weighs 5500 pounds.. that’s not a sports car” well let me tell you what a Model S performance can out accelerate... Ferrari’s... every BMW.... Audi R8s..
He's referring to it being small and nimble, not quick. He's not bashing the car; he's pointing out that it's not built to be a sports car. It's no Miata.
That off road Beetle cracks me up! It's a serious car, but it sounds and looks like a giant RC car! Hilarious!!!
lol, it does. Maybe they should mod it with a 20 foot floppy aerial with a bit of yellow plastic at the end?
@@TheGramophoneGirl yes!!!
The bug just need some cards in the spokes😂
My mates Dad (an RAF Hercules pilot) converted his Beetle into a Lawn Mower (chasis, no panels). That used to go pretty well.
Next step in the evolution? Mr Fusion.
When I was a kid we had an old broken down beetle sitting on our property for years until it got sold off.
After watching this I can't tell you how disappointed I am that my parents did that. Would have loved to see it converted and then painted up to look like Herbie.
Jump off the line of any red light just like the movie.
Any old car can get a new lease of life.....fantastic!
Old lease worked fine.
We have two out 3 electric cars. Our gas car is a 68 firebird, now I want to convert it to ev
Hard to believe you.
I have a Model 3 and a Bolt in the garage, but still have a gas minivan. Maybe one day, I can cut it lose, and get a cybertruck. 😁
The acid test is to have two classics - same condition, same colour, same interior etc., but one has a restored engine and the other one is electric. I predict that the engine one would bring more pleasure but would only be driven very occasionally. The electric one would become the daily driver and ultimately the wife would force the sale of the ICE one due to lack of use.
Not driving because it's gas is red herring. Drive 50 yo car daily and for any distance. People drive cars 50 years ago.
drove
@@dukeallen432 I think the point is that electric vehicles are really convenient, cheap to run and effortless to drive. They'll win the day on daily driving (of that I have no doubt) but the 'fun factor' won't be the same. To be honest I've lost the fun factor with modern internal combustion cars. Give me a 60's lotus elan sprint any day as my weekend playmobile.
I daily drive my classic. To real car enthusiasts and drivers, electric will never be the way, because we know it's not about speed, power or convenience. It's about sensation, how it feels, how it sounds, the power curve of an ICE, "tinkering" with your dizzy and carb. My classic daily only has about 60-70 bhp in it at the moment, but RWD and 500kg, you're not going to have more fun in anything else
Funny you should say that, not the same but very similar same brand. More to come 😉
The electric BaHa off roading sounds like my sand scorcher!
Bonkers Baja Bug !!
totally !! i had one as a kid
Are...the old sand scorcher. Had one in 1983.
Getting involved in EV conversions in the UK? Get in touch 😉
Good on ya, Brewer. EV v ICE ? Naah - variety is the Spice of Life.
As long as a million or two classic "combustibles" are preserved and available to hire worldwide for a century or two, we'll all be happy.
And Jeez - if you don't like the serene, de-stressing, Zen-like tranquility of EVs(or of whisper-quiet Rolls Royces..) just turn up the volume of your surround-sound, bass-boosting in-car audio system - to 11 if need be.
AWESOMENESS!!!
I would love to have an electric car. Clean, quiet .
But unfortunately the name Tesla is misleading. Tesla's vision of free energy was about something else. The name has been hijacked for an other form of slavery.
And the burden on the
electromagnetic
environment is certainly not clean either.
@@marcelwijnen9037 If you have solar panels on your roof you can charge your electric car for free using your own energy. Have a battery storage solution like a Tesla powerwall and you can save all the energy you produce and use it to power your home and your EV. The name "Tesla" is not misleading - it does not imply free energy. It is simply a brand name derived from the inventor of the electric motor - Nicola Tesla. Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn't need to compromise to drive electric - that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. EVs are a lot greener/cleaner than internal combustion engines which cause more toxic pollution from their exhausts and kill more people every year than coronavirus. If you don't beleive me just sit in your garage with the garage door shut and your car engine running - see how long you last. www.tesla.com/en_GB/about?redirect=no
Electric conversions are absolutely the way to go to keep great classic cars on the road for decades to come. 👍 EV West for showing the way!
Nobody knows what will the future be like. Same story happened with low consumption light bulbs... now all on leds. I bet for low emissions petrol sooner than later.
Renewable Fuels .. produced by genetically engineered bacteria that use photosynthesis to directly poop out 100 Octane Fuel for $1.00 per gallon. Would rather see that, than waiting on Nuclear Power plants to charge up 6000 lb lithium cell EVs.
We want to dealers department too
price of conversion please, plus when is wheeler dealer converting a car to electric, from this supplier
ill convert a car for you for 15k usd
I own a MK1 Mexico, the way things are heading electric will be the only way to keep it on the road. I understand the need for the environment but I feel many classics will be lost.
They won't be lost by putting in an electric motor - they will be given a new lease of life. They will be faster, more fun and more reliable. EVs have around 20 moving parts versus around 2000 moving parts in an internal combustion engine (ICE). If you drive an EV you will never want to drive anything else.
Martin Woods agree with them being given a new lease but many will not be financially viable to convert and will end up either rotting away or scraped!
Martin Woods they will be devalued as the car is not original and I’m sorry any air cooled vw are slow and boring but converting a v8 mustang or any muscle car to electric is pointless and removes the point of owning a muscle car
The future is bright, the future is orange, electric motor cables, 👍👏.
HotSpot Instrumentals oh no I am giving my age away, they smash them with there metal knifes ha ha ha,👽👽👽. Lol.
He sweats a lot in the sunny USA..
There's less sacrilege if the original Corvette V8 has already been blown.
Thrill is going through the gears. Corvette and 2002 are being neutered.
You can fit a gearbox to an electric motor
@@evolution9774 Unfortunately, the way Tesla did their drive unit, no you can't. If you were dealing with a DC motor and a ramp-up circuit, you could install a 'cassette' type sequential transmission. It would, by the way, also increase the range a bit, since you wouldn't have to run the motor at top RPMs to maintain higher speeds.
But you wouldn't have the drag strip queen stupid acceleration.
Hey where is edd
A life size RC car.
What is the range of these things?
Depending how much weight you want & Money. Light weight sporty build would be 100 miles. Expensive heavy build could achieve 250 miles with latest tech.
A real life Tamiya Sand Scorcher
You’re there but a little bit late Mike Brewer 🙃
For me no, No way. Keep saying the customer will drive their classic more? How?? Put your foot down as one does with a classic car, 80 miles and the battery is flat.... Good luck with that! I'll get involved when 1 they are affordable for working guys. 2 they can do 300 miles between charges and do 70 mph constantly. The technology is not there yet, don't kid yourself be a long while before you bully me out of my V8 Supercharged Range Rover 10 mpg Around town... Love it
LOL 80miles, you are soo wrong. Easily could do a Lead Foot 200 mile conversion build in anything that previously had a V8. 200mile driven hard is more than enough for most Classic Car usage.
Good grief. These are custom cars that these customers want. Nobody is telling you that you have to do the same. Put a steam engine in yours if you want. Nobody cares.
Thats a nice baja bug
sounds just like a rc
Dude wear your safety belt 🤣🤣🤣
mad camber angle.
I would love to restomod my VW with an EV system. But it costs 50,000.-... that's a lot, and I mean a lot, of money.
And as it isn,t totally original , it will only be worth a pittance of its original value. maybe later on in life new owners will throw away the junk and re-install original equipment.
douglas todd not with my van. It will only go up in value because it makes my car able to go into city centers. Which it currently can’t because of the old diesel motor. And because it’s a self-build camper it might be a good choice to make it into an ev when the engine is done. If it were a pristine bug, maybe.
Didn’t really talk about handling
All lovely lovely just don't crash in one
Good evening really one of your biggest French fan we would like the voiceover in French and the really you would have in addition the 66 million French that would follow you good evening
pass.... first electric car built 1832.....take along time to catch on
This technology did not exist. BMS Managed volatile cells was only invented in the 1990s. Nothing like Passive Deep Cycle Batteries. It's basically babysitting a battery pack which wants to go on fire. Yet somehow it works great and is very safe. It was only in recent time we could build these Brutish Monster BEVs.
The only thing electric cars have ever lacked was lightweight, efficient batteries. The motor has never been the problem. The batteries are now here.
Sad, Im still a gas beliver
No more “dak dak “
640 bbc blown
Ev is ruining cars
mark gyepes and the invironment , as the plants need the polution to survive.
@@douglastodd1947 lmao how did the plants survive before the industrial revolution then?
@@douglastodd1947 There is NO PLANTs to soak up the pollution. The rate of Deforestation is alarming. False argument.
Deforestation caused in part by strip mining for ev's
@@dukeallen432 HAHAHA crazy lies. What there were Forrest in the Atacama Desert & Australian Outback? LOL Full blown crazy.
It's not a classic anymore once you do that. I cannot agree with this sorry.
TWONK
Electric cars may be the wave of the future, but to take a vintage beauty like that vette is wrong,the resale value will not be worth shit
I used to be anti EV but now if i had money I'd love to have a old classic car converted to electric with more power and without all the fuel motor issues.
And it's more and more people. So i think maybe the value doesn't go down.
I Just watched the episode with the Mercedes E55. Motor Trend killed this show. It was horrible. Do the think that the viewer is stupid?
how do classic ev's handle? we dont know he never told us, and got to drive on sand...in a jacked up beetle.....with folding wheels
“It weighs 5500 pounds.. that’s not a sports car” well let me tell you what a Model S performance can out accelerate... Ferrari’s... every BMW.... Audi R8s..
He's referring to it being small and nimble, not quick. He's not bashing the car; he's pointing out that it's not built to be a sports car. It's no Miata.
Utterly pointless