Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent to the excellent write-up provided for the M3. Just a few posts from a guy who had assembled the parts and claimed it was a straightforward conversion that he had done a few times. He didn’t provide any details about the exact parts or process.

Well said. Sales are certainly pretty low but there’s a whole group of people who bought/leased EVs for whatever their pet reason who realized “hey, these things are actually BETTER to drive”.

It’s doable with the 360s at least but it’s a pretty expensive operation. IIRC, someone was selling the parts kit on ferrarichat for $5500. The 430s are much more difficult because the electronic differential is apparently tied in somehow.

Did you read the article? You make a few modifications to the EXISTING transmission to convert it.

You’re not allowed to be reasonable here. :)

Yeah, that’s going to be a problem until a corp or consortium of them steps up. Numerous DC fast chargers around the east coast as I said but only Tesla has been willing to string ‘em together across the midwest. Much of North Dakota and a corner of Montana seem to be the last parts of the Midwest not covered by Tesla.

That’s a good counter-point but most of the components of the car are NOT EV-specific. Tires, brakes, suspension, platform pieces. GM has a huge advantage there for now. What does a brake caliper cost GM vs Tesla?

If that’s something you’d actually do, this isn’t the car for you. It actually IS possible if you’re nuts though. Right now. Check out plugshare.com.

Depending on where you live, the charging network may be far deeper than you think. In my random central part of NJ, there are 5 L2 chargers within 5 miles of me. More importantly, there’s already enough fast DC charger density (SAE CCS) to travel from here to FL if I was suitably insane.

No. It (presumably) can use the SAE CCS standard. There are actually MORE of them in the northeast (I was surprised to discover) but they’re not as well distributed.

He may say those thing (what else is he going to say?) but there are very real risks to Tesla if the big automakers get really serious about EVs. Tesla can’t touch their buying power. GM, or at lease some part of GM, is showing some commitment. Even the compliance-car SparkEV was built in-house and had some drivetrain…

For most people, anything more than a 5 year old Corolla “doesn’t make financial sense”. The average person already spends more for what they perceive as value. Size, performance, comfort, appearance. Whatever. A base golf leases for less than my e-golf but I didn’t want one of those.

Or maybe they just like silent, quick, maintenance free, and cheap to operate cars and are willing to pay a premium for them. Have you driven an EV?

It’s LG, who have committed to supply GM at $145/kw-h (which is really low). GM is talking 30,000 cars/yr. Current best guesstimates put pack size around 55 kw-h.

GM always notes that the $30k price is with the available $7500 federal tax credit. Internet bloggers(as above) don’t always make that point clear.

The CEO, President, Bolt Product Manager, and EV Chief Engineer all say it will do 200+ miles EPA range. I guess I am simply choosing to believe them.

I thought it was pushed back about 2 months (they’ve been released now) due to the VW scandal. Did I miss something? The Model X was 2 years late.

Chevy had 55 pre-production Bolts running around in June. Meanwhile, Tesla has not even shown a rendering of the III which, you may recall, depends on the operation of the still-a-shell Tesla Gigafactory. Tesla has shipped “customer cars” at the unveiling because they’re basically shipping what any other company would…

The lever traditionally used to switch the mirror to night mode turns on the video. It’s a normal mirror when off.

I had the same experience with a 996 GT3. It was just no fun to drive at anything approaching responsible speeds. In retrospect, a TT would have been a better fit for me.