Electric Alfa Romeo Spider test drive
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Time to take this beautiful all electric Alfa Romeo Spider out for a test drive around the hills of Wales. As well as converting it to electric we've also brought the bodywork and interior up to scratch with a respray and full retrim with gorgeous leather and suede. It's got a Hyper 9 motor in, driving the rear prop via an inline gear reduction unit, so no gearbox. Tesla battery pack is 35 kWh, which should give a range of around 120 miles driving normally on A roads.
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All classics, from every era, is worth electrifying! 😁
Edwina and Patsy will think this is Absolutely Fabulous.
That’s how a roadster should be!
No noise,No smell
Just enjoy nature
Shoutout to you & your workforce for creating these wonderful conversions & showing people how the future will be👍
Keep up the amazing work
Thanks Dan. 😎👍
Like removing an orchestra from a concert hall.
You should be driving a toaster oven
Loving these frequent uploads, Moggie. Keep em coming mate 👍
Another great job done, but I would have gone for the boat tail. If I win the lottery this week, Richard, I'll be bringing you a Citroen DS, my all time favourite car. And I'd want 'bonkers spec.'
Ive been a fan for years and I can't wait to convert something.....I must do it soon!
Nice! Good seeing a direct drive too - less to go wrong.
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.
Modern classic`s with electric conversions. The sky`s the limit on choice. Looking forward to seeing lot`s of different cars getting the sparkie conversion.
the 80s version of this car holds a special place in my heart, and if my dad here still here im sure he'd love to see this. if I had the cash i would do this type of conversion to his '96 Barchetta that he left for me
you're doing an amazing service to classic cars. These cars will last far longer than original restorations and will be used more. You're a hero
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.
As an Alfa Romeo historian and lifelong lover of these cars, I don't know what to think about this one. I'm usually very positive about EV conversions in general and yours in particular, as they're so well designed and executed. Converting such a late-model Spider makes perhaps more sense than earlier ones, as those late 2.0 twin-cams were more about the torque than horsepower, and the car itself had become more of a cruiser than a raw sports car. Would I ditch the Alfa engine and slick gearbox for EV power, if I owned one of these? Mmmh... No, I don't think so. But I can see the appeal for someone else. Well shot and very pleasant video, thank you for sharing it with us!
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
I was just driving my Model X from California to Texas when I told a guy at a Supercharger that I had just bought on “Bring a Trailer” a 1964 VW Beetle that I was shipping to a shop in Austin, Texas for an electric conversion. He mentioned that he was looking at a 1960’s Italian car (Issetta) to convert to electric drive. I gave him the name of your shop and told him you were the place to go to.
You've never given us a boring video! I always look forward to your latest one, and I enjoy your old ones as well. Cheers!
Glad you enjoy them.
that is just superb. these conversions are amazing.
Wait a minute. This isn't an Alfa. It runs! ;) You guys are coming fast and furious with the video content. This is great!
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
Got 10 years before mine becomes a classic.
Fantastic moggy...love to see a Chrysler crossfire...or a Audi TT...and thanks for your help with my honda goldwing electric conversion its running great..regards and keep um coming Trev
Another sexy conversion, you guys don’t just plonk in equipment and say tadah!! You make it look better then factory installations.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
Thanks. It's got to be done right or not at all. 😉👍
5:47 Lt. Sulu engage hyperdrive. I just love these vid's. Still I'm missing the exhaust noise, I think, maybe not... Just keep on making these vid's Richard they are lovely.
I had this idea about putting Electric motors on classic cars, couldn’t ever do anything since my country’s legislations. Awesome to see you guys doing it
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.
I really want to see a Japanese classic 90s MR2, Celica, MX5, etc
Datsun 240Z! It's been done already but it needs to be done more often!
*First, I absolutely love that Alpha!*
*Second, I would. Love to see you do a 70's Rolls or my favorite car of all time - a 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham de'Elegance.*
I would love to see you do more modern classics. The MX5's in this video are members of the North West Midlands area of the MX5 Owners Club UK on a run through mid wales. It was great to see you out in your latest conversion.
Thanks Norman, great to see the MX5 club during our filming. Looked great as you all came around the corner. 😀
Yes to more modern classics, I'd love to have my 90s Peugeot converted
Close to my dream car. Well done. Looks great.
7:54 This is how a cabrio should be - like a (fast) walk in the country. You can hear the birds tweeting, the smells etc without being drowned out by the noise of an engine. I think there would be such a market for an electric convertible.
That's got to be the best looking ev so glad old cars dont need to die they just get electrifying .
Had a 2L Red Spyder for 3 years. What a car, flip 2 catches flip the roof back, suns out even in winter. That DOHC engine was a peach and so was the gearbox but it was the pin sharp handling with limited slip diff that was so addictive. For me now I can never go back to ICE, would love another Spyder again though, lets face it EV conversion is the answer. ECC videos always put a smile on my face, you guys are serious ambassadors for the EV revolution. My vote for the next classic conversion?.......Triumph Stag.....I had one of those as well and no mine didnt go bang it had a £10,000 Barry Hart engine ouch££££ but the reputation proceeds the poor Stag and if ever a car needed Tesla power its the Stag.
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.
To answer your last question: I'm thinking that loads of children growing up in the 80/90s are now getting close to their 50s ( = generally wealthier and melancholic) so yeah, I definitely think new classics is a new market for you to tap in!
So inspiring! Thanks to your videos I'm seriously starting to rethink about future of my RR...
Personally I would love to see you do more of the newer ones, but being an older guy I do lean toward the older classics. I absolutely love what you did on this Alfa Romeo. It is gorgeous inside and out!! From Tennessee in the good ole USA.
You contradict yourself in your own sentence. "Newer ones"...or "Classics"...huh? Which one is it?
@@bigmacdaddy1234 How about the early or later classics?
This Alfa is prefect. This is what I want.
I’d love to see an old Alfa GT Junior converted! I’d also like to see a conversion on a ‘modern’ SLK 😎
Amazing work!
This is nice to see. I had the privilege of helping a friend swap a blown engine on an older Spider back in the late 90s. A few weeks later the swapped engine blew. Apparently this was common. This electric swap is 1000% better than the original.
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
Excellent quality job as usual, and one thing I am appreciating more and more with each of your conversions of a classic is the simplicity of operation. The wall of screens and touch-stuff on a Tesla or the new BMW i4 is sometimes intimidating when not directly hampering of a relaxed use of the car. I love that you don't shove that into these cars but respect their original nature and blend so well the necessary new functions into the old gauges and knobs. 👍
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.
I’ve always wanted to see an 80s Roll’s Royce converted to electric
More modern classics please. My reason for saying is I want to bring my own E36 project to you guys some day. 😄
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.
Two of the these exact models were just imported into Georgetown, Guyana. A red and a yellow. Nice to see your conversion. If this is what it will take to keep these running, you're on the right track. Well done!!! You've got a new subscriber!
Woohoo another amazing EV Conversion Video.
Perfect to start the weekend. :)
I think this is just about the perfect kind of conversion! When energy density is a bit higher, the cost and weight a bit lower, and the infrastructure a bit more accessible, something like this would be the PERFECT daily driver! An older fella myself, and a current owner of a couple of "classics", the romantic memories never meet the reality of ownership. I've had a Spider, which I dearly loved, but was also a smelly pain in the rear. I'd take an e version any day. What else would benefit from a conversion: TR6, MGB, any 124, Volvo 240-9XX, Saab 9-3/9-5, any compact pickup truck, any van, large-Marge barges like 60s-70s Cadillacs, Lincolns, Buicks, etc., etc. Keep 'em coming! 👏
Wow, Richard, that car is awesome to go for a day at the beach.
I know you deal with classic cars. But let me share my dream of converting my '96 Civic Sedan. Although it is getting rotten in some corners, I wish I could recover it, convert it and make it a better car. I would be happy with a +180hp and +250 lb/ft of torque electric motor. I would also replace the lights and suspension (it is a too hard one as original)
Anyway, thank you for another awesome video, and for sharing your hard but great work. That Spider looks so fun to drive.
My dad has a 1990 Renault Alpine GTA V6 that I reckon would make a perfect candidate for a small Tesla motor conversion but they were so light and aerodynamic I reckon even a Hyper9 attached to the transaxle it would still be a sporty car!
Love the work! can you please look into more 70 - 80s sports cars?
This is a childhood dream come true. Silent, electric and an Alfa!
Great work guys.
I just wonder, would a car like this have regenerative braking?
Hi, yes, this car has regen 😊
Silent and electric are the worst things you'd want in an alfa
An amazing work. Good on you for giving it a new lease of life.
Well done,very nice job and well engineered.
I like the modern classic car. Especially this one is REALLY looking phantastic! I am looking vor a Corvette C3 convertion! This is a project I am looking for when retired... :-)
The obvious modern classic to electrify is the mk1 MX5. Really simple, no ABS or CANBUS to worry about. I’d love to see (own) one with a small Tesla drive unit between the rear wheels and batteries in the engine bay and fuel tank void. About 250-300bhp equivalent and 150 miles range would be perfectly larey but drivable (similar output to turbocharged ones). 🙏
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.
Love this motor as you do Moggy. This is a real Sunday cruiser motor. I would like to see a red Jaguar E Type converted to electric, with a big Tesla motor it in it. Keep up the good work, you guys will always be in work for sure. 👍🏴 😎
A drop in kit for an NA MX5 with roughly 300hp would be a beautiful sleeper!
Love modern classics! I would like to see a Jag sedan.
Wonderful! Such a pleasant car!
Great video mate 👌
Work of art..well done again...
Thanks. 😁👍
ECC is doing a tremendous job, you can see the passion and the attention to details your team put out in this Italian beauty. I see this kind of conversion for around 10/15/20K - depended also if the car needs repairs, body work or other parts to be a better way to revive old cars and restore value - who will say no to free charging - and mostly because it is such a blast to drive. Good job to you and your team and I will keep recommending your conversion company and your work.
Excellent work - thanks.
You really do improve a lot of classics Richard! Love your work!
Excellent car and great video!
fantastic what you are doing...big wow from me..love the tv show
Thats a really usable dream car for the not superrich people 😊👍🏻⚡️⚡️ I like old classics, and i would really like something like that to use on weekends and as a daily driver. I have had a Fiat 1500 convertible -65 and that would have been perfect for a conversion like that.
What a beautiful car. Although to be fair it was mostly unchanged since the 70s.
Surely we want to see a converted Lancia Delta HF 4WD in full group A spec tootling around the Welsh mountains
Yes, YES and YEESSSSS. 😎⚡👌
Just listed to your Q&A where you mentioned the DeLoren. It reminded me of another car that could benefit from having its motor put where it was originally designed to be , the Triumph TR8. A TR8 with a rear electric motor would be a nice exercise in making a car go how it looks and another blow for reliable cars.
I have an Aston Martin Vantage V8-06, that I love, but I would really like it to be converted, so I can enjoy it also in the future!
I think, there are a lot of owners of these cars, that feel like me... Regards from Sweden! Hans Nordgren
Looks fantastic, brilliant job.. I used to have a Citroen 2CV and looked it, best fun car i have ever had. That in electric would be great as the car was light weight to begin with, taking the engine out and doing the same as you have done with the Spider would be amazing.
Love the videos very informative.
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Love theses videos and the work you do. I would love to see you do a 300hp small tesla rear drive unit in a 1980s Bedford Rascal van.
What a ridiculous transformation from an exuberant, sweet engine and iconic five speed box to a Frankenstein.
Lovely job. The wife has an early 1968 Spyder and when it's running the sound is amazingly. That is what is missing, the noise of the engine.
Superb!!
My favourite part about this is actually how good it sounds? Never thought I'd say that about an EV.
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
So love what you do. Sure hope you do an ev conversion on my alfa.
Keep up the good work!!!
Love the look of the car, you guys did a great job, top notch. 👌
Though not much said about the acceleration and acceleration peddle.😉
Love the series, wished you would do a VW Transporter t6/6.1, just keep up the great work
Absolutely lovely!
Thank you! 😊
gorgeous ..perfect choice
Great video. Discovered your chanel recently. Getting caught up on your vids.
Nice car! Perfect weekend countryside get.
ive owned many cars many north american muscle cars and had a 1993 the same model and colour as on the video and my god it was the best car ive owned and i regret selling it, it was a petrol not electric obvious of the time line. i love alfas and enjoy the fun behind the wheel.
Enjoying your videos Moggie, I would love to see a Citroen DS electric, retaining all the hydraulic suspension and see what you can do with the dash to make it "80's futuristic"
We've got a Citroen SM coming soon. 😎⚡👌
That really would be a sensational car, I love the big Citroen DS👍😎
Great car and a cool conversion. Would love to see the Alfa Romeo 916 GTV or Spider get the same treatment. Cheers
I'd love to see you do an aluminium bodied and space framed Audi A2.
It's already a lightweight vehicle, it's got a sandwich floor and a massive boot so getting even better weight distribution should be possible.
I know there are plenty of enthusiastic members of the A2OC who would love to see a kit to allow these great, practical and fun vehicles to keep on wheeling into the 2030s.
I work with a guy that had an Alfa romeo, and it was always giving him trouble and Being here in Australia it was difficult to get parts for them, so If that is a particular problem for you, turning a problem into an Easy driver would be a "No Brainer". Nice looking car, very nice restoration.
Thanks 😊
Here in the colonies, we have free charging for the first hour at a large retailer called Target. I generally spend over $100 on my shopping though, so charging can be expen$ive!
Oh yeah, nice car!
I would like to see a classic Triumph TR-6. I have had a TR-3A, TR4, TR-250 here in the U.S> and Three TR-6 cars that I rebuilt and enjoyed back in the day. Only wish I had kept one of them. Life happens as we are busy making plans. Love your Chanel , thanks for the great content.
Yes more modern classics pls
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
Best part: " handling remind me an MX-5" " Im not a fan of italian cars, but i can get used to it"
Definitely a Porsche 930 Conversion!
Have you done an MGB Roadster? Thats whats on my radar...
Wish I could buy this as a kit!
1987 Suzuki Mighty Boy is a dream modern classic ev conversion.
You took the soul out of this car...
Wow! All the thrills of listening to your refrigerator running. Or maybe your window air conditioner.
One of your best although Im biased as I guess this fate will befall my S1 Spider sometime. Seems to work well.
Love the vid
Interested in seeing some American muscle cars from the 50/ 60s.
Chevy. Mustang. Camaro. Big power output 😉👍
I'd like to see either an MGF or TF converted. There must a few sitting there with blown head gaskets. If I had the money, I'd seriously consider doing this. That or my 1990 Audi coupe quattro.
Great conversion! What a lovely sweet car. I have a mk2 Audi TT. I wonder if it can be converted too
I'd love to convert my 1997 Rover 414si. Seriously, I love my car.
Amazing work!!! Very nice👌
Just wanted to say "shut up and take my 💰".
Think this will be the only way to keep my GT, with all restrictions popping up everywhere 😩
Will definitely miss the petrol and some of the mysticism of the combustion engines😢
It's hard, but we need to move forward!!!
Keep the good work guys 😉👍
Z3 z4 would be nice as modern classic and TR7 from my youth, like the idea of no gear box