Nov
3rd
Sat
3rd
Everybody should be driving a plug-in vehicle right now.
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… Jonathan Godwin complains.
“I can go next door to Ace Hardware and buy a DC electric motor, go out to my four-wheel-drive truck, remove the transmission and engine, bolt the electric motor onto the back of the transfer case, put a series of lead-acid batteries up to 240 volts in the back of the bed, and we’re good to go. I guarantee you I could drive all around town and do whatever I need, go home at night, and hook up a couple of battery chargers, plug one into an outlet, and be good to go the next day.”
Brilliant. Detroit can’t innovate like this because innovation can’t happen at Detroit scale. But there is an incredible opportunity for smaller companies to produce after-market conversion kits for popular vehicles.