Old Mini + Electric Motor + MANUAL Gearbox? | Carfection 

The E-Mini is my enemy because it should have been called the Min-E. What a shame.

For all the British watching, a hood is what we call a Bonnet, this American guy should have explained that

Loads of people crying that classics are being converted to electric, having owned 2 classics myself, this is genius, reducing spanner time, breakdowns etc. Means I could spend more time driving and sharing my classic instead of hiding ina shed fixing it, shame about the cost but that will come down, range will get better. I hazard a guess that there are a massive number of classic car owners who would love to run theirs daily, this would allow it

To be honest, classic cars like that Mini are more suited to electric power than something like a EV-converted Ferrari. Great review :)

It's no Binky.

I love Mini's, still have two mk1's. £35k is crazy for the conversion, when mine do 40+ mpg anyway.

I haven’t watched this channel since Alex Goy left. Can’t believe he’s back and I seemingly just didn’t know. Mind blown! Looks like I’ve got some catching up to do!

My first reaction was how could you take out the little heart of a minti! But, you do make a good point about the vtec swaps.

For the price of the conversion you could buy an electric car and keep your mini as it was meant to be.

How does it feel when you down shift? Is that possible? How does the electric motor handle the tension being put on it? Thanks

I remember seeing RichRebuilds build one out of his garage using a forklift motor, it could spin the wheels looked like hilarious fun.

Not sure about that particular car/conversion but, I'm a big fan of anyone who makes a manual EV 👌👍

I love Alex Goy, and I adore This Car

Film started very quick

I was so interested until you mentioned the price near the end. 😫 Oh well… I have three minis and would love to electrify one of them but never at these prices!

Coupling a manual gearbox with an electric motor makes sense because it enables using more affordable electric motors. Sure, the bulk of the cost of electric cars today are the batteries but then it would be the motors that use rare earth materials and complex electronics and control. Cheaper motors would be limited by speed and torque they produce, so coupling it with gears would make a lot of sense. Furthermore, motors like switched reluctance motors, while promising since they don't use rare earth and expensive materials, have little torque compared to induction and permanent magnet motors, but they are still efficient and coupling it with gears would make sense. That being said, 35k still isn't cheap. As other comments say, might as well get a new electric compact and then keep the Mini as it is as a weekend ride. Although, it seems that we are coming to the point where electric cars will become too expensive to insure due to significant danger of setting themselves on fire.

👍🏻for the usual high quality video from the Carfection team. Wrong mod for the car though

I can hear gear reduction happening before the transmission, right? No way it works without it since electric motors rev to the moon?

A jacket and scarf?? When was this filmed..

Should have a classic A series engine with twin SU's. Bah humbug!.

"Eeeeee - shift - eeeeee" Oh, ok, so that's why it's called an E-Mini then...

Nice Merlin jacket. Looking at one to wear while riding my triumph.

I'm sure lithium ion cells will improve the Mini's already stellar crash safety.

It cannot be a classic Mini without the engine.

how much ?

I'd love one of these. This is genius'

stopped video at 'hood'

The plate almost reads: Bin Laden 😬

Old time but new🤔

Did you know making one lithium battery creates more pollution than you driving an old muscle car your whole life.

It’s called a bonnet.

So the electric mini is real! I only say this because its featured in horizon 5 as the mini Cooper Forza edition and this little thing is speedy but that's cool AF 🙂

Love this concept even if the execution isn’t perfect. Every car guy should own a classic mini at some point. And this electric conversion makes perfect sense.

That's nice, now to add some "engine" sounds

£35k PLUS vat, WTF! Sold to go around London, sounds about right as you must have money to burn if your going to buy it. The manufacturers of that soulless car must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Very impressive, I’ve never owned one but worked in many original 1275s and they’re utterly brilliant. Or go full on and get a Vtec or shoe horn a V6 in the back. With classics I think we should leave them ICE.

Part of the point of a Classic is the powertrain, the soulless nature of EV defeats the joy of Classic motoring, I have a Classic American muscle car with a 7.4 liter engine it is not really any faster in a straight line than my golf GTI daily, but the smile it puts on your face when you mash gas and hear the induction noise and the bass bark of the exhaust just makes me smile, in a way no EV can replace

Completely point less! Get it? But actually, it is pointless. Want an electric hair dryer then buy one. Would you convert a 1919 De Dion-Bouton to electric or perhaps a 1929 blower Bentley? I don't think so! Or perhaps get Banksy to give the Mona Lisa a makeover? Absolutely not! These vehicles are about Philistines trying to show how clever they are and destroying a classic car along the way. It's not big and it's not clever.

100 mile range...so I can drive to family but I'll have to charge at their house before coming home. I dunno, doesn't sound worth the cost despite being a fun idea.

3:12 I have a vacuum cleaner that sounds more aggressive than that, also I've seen this car before on a few channels, it's a shame a respected channel like carfection ended up promoting something like this..

Electric cars, especially conversions with gearboxes make no sense - why keep the complexity of the gearbox and the discomfort of having the change gear all the time? And it does seem way to gutless. A fine engineering effort, but electrification should work with simplification.

promosm 💔

That motor is connected to the thigh bone, and the thigh bone is connected to the cheeck bone!! And so the way of the lord!!

NO

Give it an electric motor and then hobble it with a manual gearbox?? Also branding, Mini-M-E Did he just say, $35k for the conversion. Yikes

African or Indian elephant?

Just no, the only acceptable electric vehicles are made by Kyosho and Tamiya 🙂

Eh, for a car that'll be driving around London, a manual gearbox is a silly idea.

Everytime is see a nice classic car getting these shitty mods my heart bleeds..

No. Just no.

Not feeling it

What kind of soy boy makes an electric mini that has the power of an electric scooter, why bother!

BOOOOOOooooooooo! Not interested in soulless electric vehicles.

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