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Electric VehiclesTrump is the best thing to happen to the world economy at the expense of the USA. Give him a medal.
However, despite the media focus on Tesla, Peterbuilt has been selling electric trucks for 2 years now.
The Peterbuilt has a 100 mile range. One look at the completely unchanged exterior makes it obvious why. Typical legacy automaker shit.
They make a few models. The 18 wheeler is 200 mile range. Verified, not Musk miles. Mid size trucks at 280 miles.
https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/zero-emission/579EV
But dumbass North America needs to stop using 18 wheel trucks for quarter loads or a single piece of equipment and start using smaller trucks like most of Europe.
In 2022 my dad gave me his '63 Karmann Ghia, while getting it running I wanted to sell the motor and convert it to electrical. I let him talk me out of doing that. Really wish I had gone ahead with the conversion now. Since then my wife lost her 6 figure job and is making only slightly more than min wage, and I closed my business.
I just looked that car up. That thing is SICK. I hope you get to electrify it eventually. It's beautiful. :)
It was just an Italian body dropped on a VW Beetle frame.
It is and it clocks its 0-60 in a paltry 17 seconds!
34 screaming horses!
That Ghia is so light, it wouldn't need a heavy battery or motor.
I agree, but right now I have no funds to buy either.
Oh I got that, I am just lamenting the aborted project with you. I hope things look up for you soon.
I decided to look up some kits to electrify my Ghia, they are around $20k! And they change it from MERD to RWD.
Looking at the image on this page, that is AI right? Those batteries do not even fit in the frunk. https://cmvte.com/karmann-ghia-manual-electric-conversion-solution/
This one looks to be a bit more serious https://evwest.com/karmann-ghia-hyper-9-120v-26-5kw-ev-conversion-kit-ac-motor-regen-braking-1955-1974
There are actually a lot of European electric trucks, but the Chinese ones are much cheaper
