kalkulat@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months agoA Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVsrestofworld.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkA Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVsrestofworld.orgkalkulat@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoVery surprised at the price claims; in the US, doing a conversion has been expensive enough that it’s rarely done
minus-squareAnivia@feddit.orglinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up1·2 months agoWhich mostly boils down to labor prices. You can build cheap EV conversions if you have free labor and don’t care too much about range and charging speed
minus-squarekalkulat@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoUS parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.
Very surprised at the price claims; in the US, doing a conversion has been expensive enough that it’s rarely done
Which mostly boils down to labor prices. You can build cheap EV conversions if you have free labor and don’t care too much about range and charging speed
US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.