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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2020, 12:03:55 PM »
Damn!  Love the Hudson in that article.
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2020, 01:14:46 PM »
I know I am going to get beat up over this, but most folks on this forum seek advise on their cars because they do not have any expertise in auto repair. Converting from 6 volts to 12 volts is a stretch for some. Suggesting that anyone on this forum would convert to full electric is extremely entertaining for me. Besides, most folks on this forum wouldn't spend $100.00 for a new tail light lens for a 1951 Frazer, let alone the tens of thousands it would cost for a full electric conversion.

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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2020, 01:34:09 PM »
I know I am going to get beat up over this, but most folks on this forum seek advise on their cars because they do not have any expertise in auto repair. Converting from 6 volts to 12 volts is a stretch for some. Suggesting that anyone on this forum would convert to full electric is extremely entertaining for me. Besides, most folks on this forum wouldn't spend $100.00 for a new tail light lens for a 1951 Frazer, let alone the tens of thousands it would cost for a full electric conversion.

I asked given the current direction politics is taking.

Given the "Great Reset" planned by our self-appointed betters, where only green energy will be allowed in our future, where Klaus Schwab and the WEF have declared that we (the great unwashed) "will have nothing and like it", where fossil fuels will be discontinued and engines of all types but electric will die with the depletion of the gas in their tanks...it seemed appropriate to me to explore the idea, rather than have a two ton vehicle sit in my garage that will be, if they get their way, non-functional.

I'm just as sure that I will be pilloried for the above as well, but the signs have been posted, the gauntlet laid down...one only needs to search out the info to see that is what is in the plans for our future.  (Suggestion, if you do desire to search for such info I would advise not using Google to do so...try DuckDuckGo or Startpage instead...added benefit, they do not track your searches.)

I just bought this damned car, and I want to be able to drive it for a few years before I become room temperature.  And it may be the only way I will be able to do so within the next few years is to look toward converting it to all electric...  :)
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2020, 02:55:37 PM »
I know I am going to get beat up over this, but most folks on this forum seek advise on their cars because they do not have any expertise in auto repair. Converting from 6 volts to 12 volts is a stretch for some. Suggesting that anyone on this forum would convert to full electric is extremely entertaining for me. Besides, most folks on this forum wouldn't spend $100.00 for a new tail light lens for a 1951 Frazer, let alone the tens of thousands it would cost for a full electric conversion.
From what I saw on the auction site specializing in wrecked Teslas of all manner, Gordie's 4K acquisition price mentioned in the beginning of this thread seems very realistic. 4K + or -, motor, batteries, controllers, & the rest of the car gets resold/recycled.
Compare that number with the fact that I've got over 4K in a full rebuild of my Aero engine alone. THAT'S what perked my ears up.
Contrary to what you may think, I have no doubt I could convert my Malibu to Tesla electrics, either reversible, or permanently modified.
Just one very interesting possibility...........grafting this little baby onto the rear end of your frame. :)

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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2020, 03:26:22 PM »
No one is going to get beat up over their ideas.  All are good questions and we have all learned a lot from this discussion. The total loss of gas powered cars is at least 25 years away as there are just too many of them on the roads today.  Many of us will be gone by then and if anything that we can buy is electric that will be good for our planet.  Old gas powered cars will end up in museums just like the old horse pulled buggies are right now.
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2020, 10:51:25 AM »
The total loss of gas powered cars is at least 25 years away as there are just too many of them on the roads today. 

I believe you would be quite surprised on that estimate if you did some research on Klaus Schwaub, the World Economic Forum and the "Great Reset" that is planned for we, the unwashed masses.  From my research I think you can reduce that estimate to about 5 - 7 years, if not less, as they will be using their Globull Warmin's lies to advance this agenda as quickly as they possibly can...you know...to save Mother Gaia from all of us heathens.  :)

However you may be correct in that it won't matter, and this whole question is academic, as if they get their way in all regards they have decided that we, the great unwashed, will "own nothing and like it", as we shall all be serfs of the great socialist one world government they envision.
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2020, 11:44:30 AM »
Cars are so expensive now that they are offering six year financing.  They will not be taking our cars away while we still owe on them.  Your theory is interesting but I am not going to worry about it at this point.
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2020, 12:34:41 PM »
Cars are so expensive now that they are offering six year financing.  They will not be taking our cars away while we still owe on them.  Your theory is interesting but I am not going to worry about it at this point.

I understand your reluctance in belief or desire to do any research on the direction I'm positing.  Confirmation bias is a powerful force, and one I suffer from as well.

Unfortunately I've also been saddled with a great thirst for knowledge, the desire to learn everything I can about the world around me, to try to understand the trends as they unfold, whether said trends be within my family, my workplace, my state, my country and the world at large...indeed our solar system as I try to keep track of even potential asteroid/meteorite near passes.

Some might call it a disease...to me it is wonder at every new fact, science, process, cycle, etc., etc., that I learn.

Would it surprise you to know that there was an article in Time Magazine (their international edition) about the "Great Reset"?  It's rather milquetoast as one would expect from Time, there is much better info out there on what is planned going forward.

There is a Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting times!"...we are there my friend.  :)
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Re: What would it take to convert to all electric?
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2020, 02:10:11 PM »
Oil is worth a LOT of money, and there's still a LOT left to be pumped, and they're still looking for & finding a LOT more.
I think that sums up the foreseeable future.


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