Matteo I’m with you . I’m just not ready to let go of the smell of petrol and the induction noise just yet , not to mention the physical interactions of driving input . Having said that though the work on this Spider is certainly excellent and I’m sure one day I’ll take the plunge with an EV of some sort

Thanks for watching and your honest comments. 👍

@@ElectricClassicCars How about converting Prius or Tesla? I do agree with 2 gentlemans above.

Its time. We will look back at this time just like we look back at steam engines. I have a MX5 NB 1999 and if I had the cash, that would become an EV. I will miss the gearbox but there is no point in keeping dead weight inside an EV.

@@808GT I get what you’re saying although I’ve just bought a 1988 Alfa Sprint with twin Webber’s so for now that’s my ride 😁 You could argue that because it’s so old it’s carbon footprint is actually less damaging than a new EV

Thanks Dan. 😎👍

Like removing an orchestra from a concert hall.

You should be driving a toaster oven

Less to go wrong maybe but at a minimum of £50k for a conversion you could have a new fuel efficient engine fitted, new gearbox and enough fuel to last you 10 years for the same money. No waiting for it to charge up ...if you can find a charge station and no batteries to replace costing upwards of another £10k minumum.

Thanks. 👍

Pretty sure the >£50k price of an EV conversion would make a an £15k Alfa Spyder last a lifetime if you left the engine in it ;) Spend £50k on a £15k car to make it last longer? Umm OK. Don't forget another £10k you'll need in 8 years to replace the batteries.

Glad you enjoy them.

Datsun 240Z! It's been done already but it needs to be done more often!

Oh dear, I upset another Stag owner on youtube by asking whether it had been "rescued" by the fitting of a Rover V8, did not go down well. He got a good one obviously.

@@adoreslaurel The previous owner thew £10k at the engine with Barry Heart Racing and most likely it would run for ever dunno I put 30k miles on it and sold it.Totaly agree the Rover V8 was way better. But an EV is better than all the ICE......for me anyways.

Thanks Norman, great to see the MX5 club during our filming. Looked great as you all came around the corner. 😀

Only downside seems to be the cost of conversion against cost of fuel/maintenence. If it costs around £50k (low estimate) to convert a car like this to electric that's around ~8,000 gallons of fuel at todays prices. At 20mpg you'd cover 160,000 miles. If you spent half the $50k on fuel (£25k - 80,000 miles worth of fuel) you wouldn't spend the other £25k on maintenence over say 10 years, besides Tesla batteries seem to need replacing after around 8-10 years/150k miles. I own 4 classic cars, 2 Minis a Triumph GT6 and a TVR and been considering a conversion for a while and for now it seems to be significantly more expensive than maintaining an engine that doesnt take hours to charge and gearbox that can be rebuilt or swapped out. In most cases it would be far cheaper to swap out a classic engine for a more powerful, cleaner, fuel efficient engine. All that aside these projects are great engineering exercises and great to watch.

that is a reason I think I would far prefer a conversion. ...they like to stick too many screens and menus and options to decide and worry about on new electric cars. I just want something simple to jump in and drive.

The issue always was the electrics in Alfas, apart from rust. Once they fix the electrics (ie replace the lot) it should run fine.

@@johnt.848 it was a joke 😐

@@michaelj7069 I know that.

@@michaelj7069 a stale one at that!

@@JoostHillemans boo hoo

You contradict yourself in your own sentence. "Newer ones"...or "Classics"...huh? Which one is it?

@@bigmacdaddy1234 How about the early or later classics?

Complete bull , the Nord engine is good for over100k if looked after properly, your batteries will be toast and buried after 30k, cant wait for them to leak their toxic waste into the ground, or are you going to spend large amounts of energy trying to recycle them only to find the resultant material is fairly worthless

@@maxab6645 correct sir

@@maxab6645 30k????? I think you've missed a 0 off that number. electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-replacement/

@@maxab6645 Do yourself a favour and find out the truth. It's easy to find EVs that have done over 100000 miles on the original battery with no significant degradation. And when they do eventually degrade they can be redeployed as home batteries and are re- used before much later being recycled.

@@johnbb99 that spider won't do 30k because the owner will get bored of it and it will sit in a garage for years when he realises its pretty worthless, the batteries will deteriorate and new tech will come along making them obsolete, so the cost to the environment of producing Lion will never be recovered

Thanks. It's got to be done right or not at all. 😉👍

Thanks. 😁👍

We have a Hyper9 motor in one of our cars. The sound was one of the first things my kids noticed, they really liked the sound of it. Different electric motors have different sounds it is just not screaming loud like in a gas car. The odd thing about classic cars conversions, is they don't really have the soundproofing of modern cars so you hear the motor more inside the car than anyone can on the outside.

Yeah it's this futuristic jetsons woooooooo.... made me smile. :D

I agree, an MX5 conversion would be perfect. 👌

I own a turbo charged mk1 MX5 and would love to own an electric version with similar power output.

@@louisdupreez2740 Pay £50,000 or more and you can have it. It's that easy.

There are a lot of E36 waiting to be converted. I have and XI that would be great to convert as the motor is shot as the trany but the body is solid but in the states. Looking forward to it.

Hi, yes, this car has regen 😊

Silent and electric are the worst things you'd want in an alfa

Thank you! 😊

Yes, YES and YEESSSSS. 😎⚡👌

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Maybe mk2 golf gti or we can call it GT.E small Tesla drive unit with maybe battery pack in front through the gearbox tunnel and under the rear. Passenger seat. But keep the gear stick with f/n/r for appearances and all mod cons

We've got a Citroen SM coming soon. 😎⚡👌

That really would be a sensational car, I love the big Citroen DS👍😎

Thanks 😊