EV West - Electric VW Bus | Fully Charged 

Wouldn't conversions be the fastest way to get the most cars to electric as opposed to people buying new cars?

You see the bigger picture from cradle to grave 👍

Price is the factor for most. Needs to be a vehicle with a fair amount of value to it for it to be viable.

Oh ok I saw the vegetable oil conversions were a few parts and tubing so I assumed it wouldnt be too different. Thanks for the info. @@leolego2

@bamboo zooka Who can afford $50,000 factory electric cars?

Jon Knight , have you never heard of rattys or be rat look , ,,,,it’s the “style”

@@yarkmates3409 That's so cool man!

Mint!

@@yarkmates3409 why would you assume he hasn't lmao. I'm always amazed how they can do paint work on these cars and make it look disheveled

It’s a brilliant job...

Would like to see your plans

True. Too much driving footage and advertising. Mentioning of respect for old design is valid but I would have preferred to see how that did it and not just listen to it.

But you'd have less of Johnny sliding his shades down.

Just go to EV west's youtube channel and drill down into it.

What is it with you people micro analysing and criticising everything?! Someone is giving you a channel to watch - watch it!!! There are millions of other channels to choose from, or hey-here's an idea-make your own.....!!

Andy McCabe Micro analysing really. I wouldn’t call it that, we want to see this Chanel continue to be successful and I don’t think they mind if people who watch their Chanel make comments that may improve the channels content and increase their subscribers ,so settle down son no need to get emotional.

Lurer på hva en sånn ombygging koster egentlig?? 🤔

In Trondheim (Norway) we will have 35 operational electric buses in August

Or those in The Netherlands. :)

In China 95 percent of all busses are electric, not a big of a deal

now he just needs a taycan to tow behind it

Danke!

Rambler Andy I went there before Xmas

@@TheLateBrakeShow OK, maybe FC was first in the queue. Off the top of my head there have been three others, and they are just others I subscribe to. [oops, we love FC best though 😎 ]

A bit lateral here but, that Bus looks like the ideal candidate for regenerative suspension. I mean those two guys were like the nodding dogs that you never see now, remember them? The more mass the more regeneration.

Yeah ... I was thinkin the same thing :-)

Serious q: Is it the rhythmically straining bearings that's the actual noise source, or are the rhythmically changing magnetic fields in air making the air wobble?

@@DavidOfWhitehills As Kelly Bundy would say, That question makes the mind wobble :-)

@@DavidOfWhitehills alternating strain forces are transmitted to both stator and rotor (3rd newton law) vibrating the whole structure to the point of being audible. Other predominant noise source can also come from the modulated voltage frequency from the inverter. Magnetic field can not directly "move the air", at least when gas (air) is in electrically neutral state (non ionized).

@@MrJgaspa Thankyou for that, it makes perfect sense. However I feel we should leave it to our most esteemed and learned colleague staudtj1 for the final word.

And Gabriel Iglesias who is a huge VW bus fan.

They did by the sounds of rich rebuilds visit to jehu

Just bloody crap

They know each other and have done videos together.

Mark Milligan That’s true enough...

There are still people out there who gather to see and hear and feel a steam engine going by... That feeling does not mean that steam engines are a good way to power the world on a mass scale.

@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 Correct. 😊

He is the owner. He has alot of videos he has done with jehu Garcia.

Where? 🤔

Jason Gooden you think they don’t?

A lot less cancer and a lot less allergies and asthma with EVs. Tires do give off similar amounts of particulates as ICE emissions but only a small part of that goes into the air. It is a lot of plastic and toxic chemicals that come off of tires though. Completely unregulated and tires could be made of safer materials and they could last a lot longer but the money side works against selling tires that last twice as long...

look on the bright side of life! (also carry an extinguisher. always.)

those were the volkswagens that used that bad fuel rail design where the fuel inlet to the injector was a permanently-attached rubber hose that clamped onto the fuel rails and was not replaceable, totally different from the rubber o-ring sealed fuel rails used from the 80's onward. those short exposed hoses would harden and crack and eventually leak. there are conversion kits now that can change the injectors to the newer style with a new fuel rail. carbureted vw's rarely catch fire unless they are not properly maintained.

dan parish, you need SOMETHING to bolt the damn motor to, man.

Tom Summers You could call it a single speed transmission

If you know about air cooled VW transaxle architecture, you know that it has 4 forward gears assembled on two stacks. First and second on one and 3rd and 4th on the other. Frequently one or more of these gears are worn out. It is easier to just remove the stack in that transaxle, and keep the other two gears. It just plain does not matter which, and you can keep it in one gear forever if you want....or if you grew up with automatic transmissions and can’t do shit with two hands and two feet simultaneously. Sadly most drivers on the road today can’t do the somewhat complicated multitasking that driving an old standard tranny rig requires. These conversions are made much easier and thus more affordable because of that architecture. You remove only the engine and adapt the transaxle to hang the electric motor on it in its place.

Tom Summers I drove only manuals before the Tesla

Do a kickstarter Mic

I was thinking the same but for the cost I’d rather just do an angry turbo 2 liter. I drove an electric VW thing once and it was super weird. Kept thinking I stalled it out at every light.

That would have killed the video 😱 RR did a rundown and it's very very expensive.

Hi, Michael! Oh yes. ♬"Two-ton Ted from Teddington who drove the baker's van,"♪ would definitely approve. (Credit: the line comes from 'Ernie', an old Benny Hill song, for those non-Brits who might be wondering what the heck I'm on about.)

I can see it now a milk float with Tesla drive train - 0-60mph in 3 seconds. You'd have to work hard to stop the eggs flying off the back though.

SuperMadpom Now I really hope someone does that!!!!!

There are people living out of their Model X, living the surfing life and getting free energy from superchargers... Or how about surfers who use eletric VW buses like the one in this video (it is not the first one I have seen). That is at least one more level of California.

I love that california exists....just not in its current state...I moved out long ago