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In automobile engineering, electric vehicle conversion is the replacement of a car's combustion engine and connected components with an electric motor and batteries, to create a battery electric vehicle (BEV). There are two main aims for converting an internal combustion engine vehicle (aka combustion vehicle) to run as a battery-electric vehicle.
General Motors started with a regular-cab, short-box (6-foot (180 cm) bed) S-10 pickup, with a base-level trim package plus a half-tonneau cover. In place of a typical inline four cylinder or V-6 internal combustion engine, the Electric S-10 EV was equipped with an 85-kilowatt (114 hp) three-phase, liquid-cooled AC induction motor, based on GM's EV1 electric coupe.
All models are powered by front and rear electric motors with optional 200 kWh battery and uses independent front and rear suspension. The truck will initially have a towing capacity of 8,000 lb (3,629 kg), but Chevrolet will offer a max tow package that will increase the figure up to 20,000 lb (9,072 kg).
One motor, electric-only Yes: No: No No off: M Engaging clutch 1 (C1) grounds the ring gear (R). Motor B is used as the traction motor, driving the sun gear (S); since the ring gear is grounded, the pinion gears (P) are forced to turn, driving the wheels through a reducing gear and differential. CD2 (6) Two motor, electric-only No: Yes: No No M: M
A 1958 Chevrolet Apache pickup truck with the NAPCO Powr-Pak conversion. GM redesigned their truck line mid-year in 1955, and soon offered the Powr-Pak as a factory-installed option; this reduced the purchase price and increased the number of sales by the dealerships. GMC was first in 1956, and Chevrolet followed in 1957, assigning it a Regular ...
Edison Motors is a Canadian electric truck manufacturing startup based in British Columbia, specializing in plug-in diesel-electric series hybrid technology for semi-truck prime-mover tractor units, full-size solid axle drive trucks, and heavy solid-axle pickups; combining a generator with electric drive motors and batteries.
The EF1-T standard model with a single rear motor is rated to tow 7,500 pounds. The EF1-TP premium two-motor variant can tow 9,000 pounds. The top EF1-TS Super tri-motor range topper can tow 11,000 pounds. The EF1-V van, rear-drive model can tow 7,500 pounds and two-motor AWD long-range model can tow 8,000 pounds. [1]
The Chevrolet Bolt EV (marketed in Europe as Opel Ampera-e, except the UK) is a battery electric subcompact hatchback manufactured and marketed by General Motors under its Chevrolet brand from late 2016 until mid-2021 and again from early 2022 to late 2023. In mid-2023, GM officials said they would discontinue the Bolt; after outcry, they ...