• Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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 😅

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

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

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        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.

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        1 year ago

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