On Jun 15, 2015, at 7:24 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> I agree. This is a dead weight holding back sales of used conversions. For > many good reasons, lots of EV hobbyists convert old vehicles. The problem is > that when you go to sell, the vehicle is even older. And hardly anyone > wants to BUY an old vehicle. I think there may be a bit more of a problem even ahead of that. Why, exactly, are you converting the car in question? If you're doing it as a financial investment, or even with the thought that you'll somehow recoup your expenses at some point down the road by selling it...you've got bigger problems than that nobody wants to buy your old converted EV. If you're doing it because you want not just any electric vehicle but _that_ vehicle electrified and it's worth however much money you spend on the project to electrify it, you're doing it for all the right reasons, and who cares how much or even if you can sell it when you grow tired of it? All the better if it works out that way, and especially if it keeps the vehicle out of the landfill...but you've got to have some pretty poor financial sense to be counting on that going into the project. Today, if all you care about is a vehicle that runs on electricity, don't even think about doing a conversion. Just buy something that already fits your needs -- most likely something from a major manufacturer, but, sure, if there's a conversion that's ready to go and does all you want, great. Not bloody likely, but wonderful for you if that should happen. I'm planning on doing the PHEV thing to my Mustang because it's a car I plan on driving for the second fifty years of its life and because I think it'll be effin' awesome. I'll be able to do almost all my driving electrically for free with electricity from the solar panels on my roof. I'll be able to do long-distance road trips in it without worrying about range or charging stations or what-not -- and still be able to plug in lots of places along the way. And it'll be one of two all-wheel-drive Mustangs in existence and the only one with an electric motor...and it'll be insanely fast. What do I care how much I could sell it for? What difference does it make how much money I put into it, so long as it's not more money than I'm able and willing to spend to have the car? It'll be a plugin hybrid electric screaming V8 all wheel drive wicked fast 1964 1/2 Mustang. It'll do silent grocery runs with free "fuel" _and_ (hopefully) smoke the Hellcats at the strip. What other reason do I need to do the conversion? And why on Earth would I even _want_ to sell it afterwards? b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150615/04937db6/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
