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Economical retrofit kits for legacy vehicles would help reduce manufacturing pollution & reduce vehicle emissions, if carbine free electricity production is increased.
Ford and GM both sell electric "crate motors" for classic cars to switch them over to electric.
Not direct to consumer though. You'd have to go to a specialty shop and pay them for labor and whatever markup they think the market can bear. Point being, it's not really economical to do on a large scale.
Yes, direct to consumer.
The problem is it's fundamentally changing the source of energy in a car. Even if you ripped out the motor and replaced it with an electric motor and battery Bank there would still be a whole fundamental sleuth of systems that would be missing inside the car. I think I better solution might be to look into converting cars to hydrogen instead.
Also feel free to ignore anything I just said I'm not no automotive engineer, just a nerd who used to tinker with cars when he was younger 😅
Hydrogen is not an energy source, it is a means of energy storage, and a pretty bad one at that.
Also, it's primarily made using methane steam reformation, which releases co2.
Yeah, that's the real problem. I wish hydrogen helped. Fuel cells and hydrogen are another way to store and release electricity, like batteries. Switching a car from gas to battery is a tricky proposition. Since they require more components to achieve the same result, delivering electricity to an electric motor, fuel cells would compound that problem.
If you want to go that route I think you should look more towards bikes and less towards cars.