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AmblerEV |
May 16 2021, 05:03 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 16-May 21 From: Ambler PA Member No.: 25,550 Region Association: None |
Ambler EV is going to officially unveil our full 914 electric conversion at our grand opening June 5, 207 & 211 South Main Street, Ambler PA. For those of you in the Philadelphia area, stop by and see the future. For those of you outside the Philadelphia area, follow our page on Facebook to see more teasers as the day get closer www.facebook.com/Amblerev. For those of you attempting this yourself, I am happy to talk end specs but questions about components used or design will not be answered (EV West is your source for that). If you are interested in buying a full electric 914 (or converting your 914 roller) so that it can handle level 2 charging, has a range over 200 miles, and will no longer contain any vacuum or 40 year old EFI electronics, stop by or email me at sam@amblerev.com.
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wonkipop |
May 18 2021, 07:24 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,347 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
hard-line pressure is building here in aus to follow uk/euro deadline of 2030 for no new ICE vehicles = its coming from the urban left of the political spectrum.
but....aus is at the scale of texas (or the real USA west). think of driving to marfa and you have an aus road trip in terms of scale and emptiness. range is still the big one. lots of elec vehicles starting to appear in urban areas as folks make the plunge on their current car purchase. but serious infrastructure for charging is not in place. there is serious conversation about hybrid vehicles coming into play to tackle range and infrastructure limitations. japanese manufacturers seem to be pushing that one, more so than euro makers. perhaps the J have their eyes on the aus and USA markets. i have read that mazda are recommitting to the rotary engine as a generator unit that can be run at constant revs (to overcome its previous emissions problems) and run on a variety of fuels since rotaries are well able to do that. at least that way you can overcome lack of charging infrastructure in more remote areas a long way from the main high way arteries. a car i fancied in my fleet was a honda insight mark 1. extreme in engineering, materials, design terms. taking efficiency like porsche took on performance. not many here and all tightly held even when the battery packs wore out. they seem to pull high $ when they rarely come up for sale. electric cars will be like ICE cars. most of them will be vanilla. the performance ones will probably make your eyeballs squash into the back of their sockets. but will they let you drive them to their limits. our nanny state country will probably have speed limits down to 10km/h by then? if i am still alive when petrol goes off the market and if i can still drive, i am going to set up a still and manufacture bio fuel to run the 914. i will probably have to pay for carbon credits to produce C02. i predict i will be 80 to 90 years old when that happens. i'm 60 now. being realistic i doubt i will be around. i imagine the 914 electric conversion industry will get some serious takers. there is no doubt there will come a point where you will be made to pay to drive a petrol one, or if things become draconian, then all ICE cars will be forced off the road. i can see that happening in europe first. |
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