Economical retrofit kits for legacy vehicles would help reduce manufacturing pollution & reduce vehicle emissions, if carbine free electricity production is increased.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ford and GM both sell electric "crate motors" for classic cars to switch them over to electric.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not direct to consumer though. You'd have to go to a specialty shop and pay them for labor and whatever markup they think the market can bear. Point being, it's not really economical to do on a large scale.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, direct to consumer.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is it's fundamentally changing the source of energy in a car. Even if you ripped out the motor and replaced it with an electric motor and battery Bank there would still be a whole fundamental sleuth of systems that would be missing inside the car. I think I better solution might be to look into converting cars to hydrogen instead.

Also feel free to ignore anything I just said I'm not no automotive engineer, just a nerd who used to tinker with cars when he was younger 😅

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hydrogen is not an energy source, it is a means of energy storage, and a pretty bad one at that.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also, it's primarily made using methane steam reformation, which releases co2.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the real problem. I wish hydrogen helped. Fuel cells and hydrogen are another way to store and release electricity, like batteries. Switching a car from gas to battery is a tricky proposition. Since they require more components to achieve the same result, delivering electricity to an electric motor, fuel cells would compound that problem.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If you want to go that route I think you should look more towards bikes and less towards cars.