Am I wrong or that mild hybrid looks working as full electric as well? They put a RWD implant, it could go alone, but I can be wrong. However it could speed up a 2.0 AXA driving uphill... (without changing the engine and fuel consumption) so you keep low taxation, and low insurance fees, and a better mileage.Mild Hybrid is nonsense. Only lowers the fuel consumption slightly in low load NEFZ / WLTP cycle.
In real life situations for a heavy car pointless.
I said since the start that the panel thing is just ideology, pure garbage. Never said it could help.
The Toyota however, shows it's possible a full hybrid conversion. That's why taking as example a big and heavy SUV, that gets heavier coz the full electrification, without a gearbox and must compete with the tesla is pretty pointless (TBH the whole e-tron thing is pointless imo). Also, the Toy Alphard is a cut above the Vw Tx by every point of view, so if it can stay under 2300 the Vw should stay as well.
The engines in the example I brought in before, are 2 in-wheels engines. There's a company from Slovenia (in-wheel.com), they sell a type of engine which weights 18kg each one, power output is 23kw at 100v or 11kw at 48v (but it's not the type the italians used in their cars, it's just to give an idea about the weights). The controllers are usually used and easily lifted up by a single person in the TV shows where they convert cars, so I doubt it could weight more than 20 kg.
So far we are at 60kg.
A prius has a 8,8kw battery (and they are old NiMH! not LIPO, LION or LIFE), so let's make out 12kw for a van that has not to drive as fast as a car. A LG chem battery (used for vehicle conversions) whose capacity is 6,5kw weights 52kg.
So far we are at less than 170kg; I would say that it would safely add less than 200kg at the van (but it's still 170kg).
Of course you have to renounce to some of the utility of the van, but you can drive it in the downtown (not in that famous essen's autobahn tract, of course).
Than, you can go up to 250kg to get a 18kw battery...
I think it's not impossible at all; it's just that everybody in the "circle of those who are ruling us" are against this type of stuff. In fact, if you need a single approval each time for each vehichle, well,... I don't need to add more. So it would be pointless for the italians to come to work for the german market, as opposite of what I believed, that was the reson that lead me to open this thread.
I wonder now, if Vw will sell the kit to convert the bug and the split/bay/vanagon, will ppl buy it if you need to waste 2000/3000 teuro in pure bureacracy for each car?
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