Thinking of converting my Noble to EV. Should I be sectioned

[bernhund]

Well?

[EddieSteadyGo]

How?

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

It’s sounds like a rubbish idea op. Even if you did managed to convert it; you would make a great car silent and boring.

[bernhund]

I certainly appreciate it's not what many would want from a Noble! My car is a Cat D so I'm not over precious about it and was planning on selling it to buy an M400. Then I thought to myself, if I need to throw £30k extra after selling to buy the M400, how about throwing £30k at what I already have to create something unique and future proofed (to a degree). I like the idea of the project, but I'm starting to think £30k wouldn't even do the job.

[oop north]

Great idea 😁

[kambites]

There's a video on Youtube somewhere documenting the conversion process for an Evora which would probably be broadly similar. It wasn't a trivial process any any means.

[JonChalk]

bernhund said:

but I'm starting to think £30k wouldn't even do the job.

I think that's your problem, if you don't want it powered by a ton of milk float batteries!

The industry "standard" skateboard approach to get the batteries centre and low would probably lift the cabin quite a bit creating all sorts of issues.

Got to admire the idea though, if you go thru with it. You should be applauded for even thinking about it.

[simonrockman]

I always thought it would be cool to rip most of the batteries out of a Tesla Roadster and put a Bladon Jets engine in to generate electricity, much like the original CX-75 concept.

[jjwilde]

There is a company on youtube who do this, it's less than £30k for a Tesla transplant. See the fully charged episodes on it.

[bernhund]

JonChalk said:

bernhund said:

but I'm starting to think £30k wouldn't even do the job.

I think that's your problem, if you don't want it powered by a ton of milk float batteries!

The industry "standard" skateboard approach to get the batteries centre and low would probably lift the cabin quite a bit creating all sorts of issues.

Got to admire the idea though, if you go thru with it. You should be applauded for even thinking about it.

There's simply nowhere in the cabin for batteries as the seats are literally on the floor which is flat. There is a tunnel that might accommodate some, otherwise they'd need to be back and front. Transverse engine probably doesn't help either for gearbox use.

[bernhund]

jjwilde said:

There is a company on youtube who do this, it's less than £30k for a Tesla transplant. See the fully charged episodes on it.

This might be London Electric Cars. They have a 59 Morris Minor about town that's converted. I've been in touch with them and might well pay a visit too. I think my biggest issue is the power I need from motor and batteries to equal or better what I have now. Those are going to cost!

[smn159]

I'd be really interested to see a build thread if you do go for it

[RobDickinson]

That would be electric classic cars.

Just converting a 308 looks good..
https://twitter.com/elecclassiccars/status/1117109...

Afik they won't do modern stuff not sure if the noble will count or not, I'm sure they'd be happy talk.

[jjwilde]

Check out this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLdzRJdKrs

[bernhund]

RobDickinson said:

That would be electric classic cars.

Just converting a 308 looks good..
https://twitter.com/elecclassiccars/status/1117109...

Afik they won't do modern stuff not sure if the noble will count or not, I'm sure they'd be happy talk.

I've been in touch with them. There's talk of £35k just for the equipment, so I guess that's going to be well over my budget. That's not to say this won't happen, I just need to look at what I can do myself, though I can't imagine there's much to save in doing so.

[RobDickinson]

I'm sure they charge well for their work and time.

Look at ev west shop for idea on hardware costs though it's in usd

[SpikeBmth]

Another conversion...

Aston Martin DB6 Volante mk2 classic electric conversion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PREftlfZuXA

[bernhund]

RobDickinson said:

I'm sure they charge well for their work and time.

Look at ev west shop for idea on hardware costs though it's in usd

Yep. A friend had them send him a quote for his Beetle. $16,500 to supply only, but I guess that wasn't for a BIG motor.

[RobDickinson]

That sounds about right, a conversion kit without batteries for vw/Porsche from them is about 7k

[CubanPete]

I think it would be cool, both as a machine and as a project to do.