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Just gonna keep fixing my 19yr old Toyota until I can't.
I've thought about making a business that makes drop in electric kits for popular vehicles. So you could take an older worn out vehicle and refresh it with full electric. It would probably cost $20k or so, but that's much cheaper than a new car.
It's called retrofit. I would love to see the price go down but it's definitely a challenging task.
Yeah, its already a growing industry I have my eye on. I would love to just electrify my gas guzzler.
There are not enough people around that would sink that much money into an old vehicle.
It depends, if you watch Dave's Auto Center people will sink that much into just an engine for an old truck. If fuel prices go up and demand for used evs goes up then I could see it as a solid alternative. I would have to target the most common vehicles that are currently on the road and make universal motors and smaller battery segments so that they could be packaged for different vehicles using the same parts.