How Car Guys And Environmentalist Can Help Each Other Big Time #Blogpost

Usually, when you put car guys and environmentalist in the same sentence it doesn’t end well. But what if there was a way to make us both happy? Well, there is one way.

You see Germany is trying to ban diesel cars and that’s a story for some other time. But the main problem is this: Why actually make new cars? I mean yeah new cars are fun and exciting to drive. That’s why I will leave luxury and performance cars out of this.

My main point in this article will be people who like one of the following things:

• Restoring classics/old cars
• Building their own race car
• Tuning a car

Basically here’s the idea. Instead of giving money to people to support the purchase of new cars, why not give money to support restoring and converting old cars to electrical drive? I mean you still get to build your own and unique car, which is very good if you are a car guy, but then again, we reduce the number of scrap yards and get better 0-60 times and bigger reliability. And we get more EVs on the road. Here’s how the idea would work:

Different Classes

Now it all depends on what thing will you do.

If for example, you are going to buy a 10-year-old car with a blown engine, you will get a smaller amount of money, but if you are going to buy a 50-year-old rusty car for this project, you will get more money. Sure the money from the government won’t be enough for the whole process. But it’s a start up like the one EU gave for purchasing EVs.

Kits

Now, of course, manufacturers would be pissed. But they can help too. For instance, you probably won’t build an engine for yourself, so why not ask car manufacturers to make engines and kits. And if they don’t want, there will be many more companies that will.

Now there is another thing, it all depends on what car you will use, and for what purpose. For instance, if you’re using a 10-year-old A8 for this project you will need a range of 500 km. Then simply you will put a weak engine and a huge battery. On the other hand, if you use an MX-5 you will put a small battery and a strong engine. Why? Well let’s face it you will use your MX-5 for B-roads, and all you need for them is tons of power and a small amount of weight. On the other hand, if you’re using an A8 you will need a big range, and you probably won’t hit a track with it. These kits would include everything you need, with a custom choice of battery and the engine. Also because the battery and electrical engine aren’t connected mechanically, you can put the battery anywhere. Want more grip on the front? Put the battery in front, want more grip at the rear? Put it in the rear. There are an infinite amount of customizations, and then again, you could tune the engine for more power.

So basically, yes you won’t have your sound, but listen to me, would you rather go and buy an EV or use this method? In the end, even in 100 years, we will drive an iconic beetle, it might run on electricity, but it’s definitely better than letting it rust in the scrapyard. And the car would be reliable, not really something you hear when someone mentions a classic.

Solar Panels

Now I already know there will be a guy in the comments saying “But tons of EVs would kill power plants because we don’t have enough power plants…

But here’s the another idea. Now, this won’t work globally, but what if we gave people money to put solar panels on their rooftops. Sure that won’t help the UK, mainly because of the weather. But here in Croatia, we have too much sun. Why not use it? If I’m not mistaken Croatian government already has something like that, but putting it on a global scale would be much better.

It would basically be like this. Last month you made more electricity than you spent, you get money. You spent more than you made? You have to pay. Of course, the initial price of putting solar panels would be only partially covered by the government, but hey, free charging of your car is free charging.

Hope you enjoyed my post
Also, hope someone important reads it.
Tomislav Celić