Sean993

Just saw a story on fox news of a guy in W Palm beach, people are sending him there porsche's and for $30,000 he is converting them over to fully electric. Looked like a few 911's a lamborghini and what appeared to be a 959, but could'nt possibly be.
The cars sounded like golf carts, I know it's progress but this seems so wrong, do it to nissans, subarus or whatever.

993_Pilot

I think it is THIS COMPANY. They do electric conversions to Kit cars & body kit "updates". I agree with you about that this would be better if done to econo-boxes.

Sean993

here is a link to the company, saw the story again
http://www.evporsche.com/

993_Pilot

This appears to be the same company. . . or at least they are using the same pics, charging the same prices and share an email address!

Marv

Yes, that's him (Paul, I think is) and he started with offereing fiberglass and carbon fiber body conversions.

Then he went into EV conversions on a number of cars, including Porsches. The 959 you see was one his personal cars, which was an early model 911 with a fiberglass body.

The performance of his EVs has been pretty good.

While I think it would be a shame to use a 993 as a donor car, I have been seriously thinking that a 996 or even a Cayman would be a great chassis for conversion.

The only limit is energy density. Right now battery technology is not mature enough to outperform a gasoline engine, but that is going to change and when it does the electric motors will clean the clocks of a gas engine.

Think not? There is a guy that recently did a conversion on an Ariel Atom. His latest timed runs are putting a 0 to 60 time of 2.5 seconds!

How? A DC electric motor delivers 100% torque at 0 rpm and the torque is close to 100% all the way to the motor's "red line". What this means is a motor with a top rpm of 13,000 can use that full rpm range without shifting gears to stay on the torque band. There is no way an internal combustion engine can match that type of performance. Think of being able to go from 0 mph to just over 100 mph and never shifting out of first gear.

The downside is energy storage. Batteries can't match the energy storage per pound that gasoline generates. If technology ever manages to bridge that gap, then it will be all over for the internal combustion engine. Plus, your cost per mile will be between 1/10th to 1/5th the cost of using gasoline. Seems sacrilegious, but that is the new world order.

If there is any car company in the world that should enter this market I would vote Porsce to be that one. They have the engineering talent and it would simply be Porsche going back to its roots when they introduced an electric Porsche in 1899!

kjr914

An electric Porsche automobile? How very turn of the century...and I mean the 20th century (1900)...

A little bit of Porsche history for those of you who aren't familiar:
http://www.hybrid-vehicle.org/hybrid...e-porsche.html

This link has good pictures....(one of the last known Lohner-Porsche electric automobile)
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/11...ohner-porsche/

Marv

Thanks! I didn't know about the first link. I should have made the links in my post a little more obvious.

Also, Porsche will be producing a hybrid version of the Cayenne soon. So, they have their toe in the water again.

bart1

Another wicked electric car: http://www.teslamotors.com/

perfectlap

why aren't these guy's on RL as a sponsor?!! I hear they are raking it in.

When can I get may Pcar on the electric?!!

H.H.Chinn

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