Lessons Learned After EV Swapping A Classic Ford: Here’s What You Need To Know! 

That is a great suggestion. Thank you.

That day is coming closer...

@@TFLEV my guess is 5-8 year's away from today.

I'd love to see a modern JC Whitney EV catalog.

Some vehicles you already can... VW bugs and I think the Mini Cooper already have kits you can purchase with all the parts you need. Maybe not Amazon though, but still, the kits are available.

@@Phatman114 more than a couple companies make bolt in kits for Porsche 911s of various vintages as well. It's definetely coming someday soonish. I could see a mash up with aems ev division Holley high voltage. Where you select your car, select the motor/s&hp goals, select your electronics with aem/next ev, select your battery setup, then have mounts and various stuff built by a place like send-cut-send. It would still be very pricey though for a good long time yet. 🤔

It would be neat to see but this video series was really expensive and hasn’t generated a lot of views. I think it may gain traction in time but I don’t expect to see another conversion on TFLEV anytime soon.

A budget build could be done a lot cheaper. A small car (probably something like a Geo Metro would be best) would only need a single NetGain motor and 36 LFP cells. Even if they splurged and got 200+ Ah cells, the cost would only be about as much as three Tesla 18650 modules.

Hi, KISS is the true acronym. You could just harvest all the parts from an old or newer crashed leaf. Which you can mount to a transmission or transfer box. Starting to see lots of conversions on Series and old Defenders. Which keep it simple. They have both depending upon the end use. You can also go the Tesla route and replace the transfer box with the Tesla drive unit with raised drive ratio. This offers more power than the leaf whilst keeping it simple since it is a motor / drive/ inverter in one. Cost wise using second hand or crashed components keeps the cost down but gives you excellent engineered parts. There are now several e us that can be used to get the hardware working. If you wanted a performance or more bespoke, you could convert to independent suspension and a drive unit at each end. This offers performance whilst allowing a skateboard approach and keeping the battery in the Ctr and safe from everything. The handling is also the best you can get with almost 50/50 distribution. There is a company in the UK offering this for older range rovers at a cost! The choice is your and so are the cost decisions. Take care M.

Or buy a cheap bolt strip it down and reuse the parts like Chevy themselves did a couple year's ago for the sema built ev c10.

The same applies to any classic custom. You're not trying to build basic transportation; you're doing something special. However, in coming years, it will likely become economical to convert them. Also, this is a $32k EV real truck. It's cheaper than any brand new full size truck and cheaper to run.

@jamesengland7461 with half the range. I expect that if Ford wanted to build a new ranger EV with only 250 hp and 100 miles of range, they could probably get close to that 30k price. It wouldn't sell well enough, though. They probably will build one with 300 hp and 250 miles of range. It will probably still be under 40k.

If you find one of these for $1,500 BUY IT! Value on these old trucks has gone through the roof. I sold a 86 in rough shape for 9k, and that's not a one off. Chevys are a little more, but Fords sell just as well. Still I get your point!

Components alone for this build was $40k. my guess on labor $15 to $30k.

Thank you for the support!

@@TFLEV Even if I disagree with whatever, I enjoy what y'all do. Especially Nathan - but don't tell him. He'll get a swelled head and go buy a VW something or rather.

Great point!

@@TFLEV An in-depth conversation on liquid cooling systems would be impressive. Battery cooling and heating system includes hoses, pump, heater and radiator. Motor cooling, controller cooling if separate box from inverter, inverter cooling, charger cooling anything else liquid cooled. What are the advantages of cooling 'each' of these systems if liquid cooled over non-cooled systems, describe components included into each system, what are the negatives of individual systems that are not liquid cooled such as the car begins to slow down on the highway. Tesla motors are liquid cooled hyper nine motors are not, because of that what can the Tesla motor do that the hyper nine can't? Thanks for the great work and hard work that you do!!!

Thank you for watching!

We showed a cost breakdown in a previous episode of this series. Thank you for watching.

You'd need probably 150kWh battery or more. And that would be expensive!

Buy a crashed Tesla and transfer all the EV components!

@@marcbee1234 great idea

Look at Edison motors up in Canada.

If it's anything like it is here in WV it actually has to snow first

Edison motors in Canada is working on that exact system.

That would be amazing! One of the most beautiful cars ever made!

Where do you live?

@@preachers4135 Quebec Canada

@@christianglaude6659 That’s interesting. Talk about an innovation buzz kill.

Doing it yourself figure 10-12 thousand for a new motor, BMS, adapter plates, cooling system, mounting, battery boxes and batteries from a totaled car typically from a Tesla or Chevy Volt. New batteries are expensive. Paying someone else could be triple that. A Hyper 9 would be nice in an Opal GT. I would keep the transmission and clutch if it can handle the increased power and torque. As long as around 100 mile range works for you you could keep the car about the original weight. It would be a blast to drive. Plan on spending about $500 for insulated tools, meters and safety equipment.

@@dannelson6980 looks like I'll just upgrade the carb to a Weber to get it running and get a paint job.

Let’s talk more on telegrams 🎉🎉🎉🎉

What’s your tellagram?

@@yosefflohr9021 that’s not the actual channel. Be careful

@@yosefflohr9021 That’s a scam. Report it.

Maybe because most of the components are new instead of repurposed from used vehicle. Higher reliability

@@DeuceFrmEC No, those batteries they used are used, and they still paid 21k!!

@@edition-deluxe I didn’t mention batteries by the way. Batteries won’t be of much used if they can’t receive charge nor will it matter of the vehicle can’t use it. I said components used to bring the focus as to why the prices may be the way it is. Batteries are expensive regardless of the platform

@@edition-deluxe They said these batteries are guaranteed 80%. Not just buying a used car and cannibalizing it.

The chevy Bolt would haul and go offroading better?

You have a lot more faith in GM electronics than I do.

To be fair most project/passion vehicles cost more to build then they're worth. I totally get your point tho.

Plus catl, lg chem, byd, and their own in house 4680s.

@@4literv6 No, just Panasonic, they don't use the other junk you listed

@@allentoyokawa9068 yes they do and it's easily verified by searching. Tear downs of the 4680s from multiple sources now exist. Tear downs of the catl lfp prismatic cells exist, and tear downs showing the overseas cars use lg chem cells. Byd is the only one still rumored and no tear down has been shared publicly of a tesla with byd cells in it's battery case.👍🏻

I don’t like Panasonic ever since they mishandled a warranty repair on a simple vehicle CD player twenty two years ago. I have avoided Panasonic products since. If they can’t be trusted in the small things I will not trust them with anything.

I think you’d be better off waiting for someone to roll a lightning/ev transit and doing a chassis swap

It's an ev conversion not an over haul it all comes down to money it's main point was just to replace ice with electric motors without having to replace everything to the wheels

I think you’re missing the point of a custom build….

Why would be the point to put a open knuckle axle in

@@ericcrockett479 bigger brakes, bigger shafts, easy to service. Tighter turning radius. Do I need to continue