Bisimoto’s Porsche 935 K3V | Jay Leno's Garage

okay i've always had that guilt for my gasoline cars initially i just wearing gasoline and i knew what i was putting out there in terms of hydrocarbons oxides of sulfur and oxide nitrogen not guilty enough to do anything about it but you fell killed a little bit i started going towards alcohol-based fuels right yeah so even my mini band runs on alcohol because i want to be able to do something a little bit better but i still want it more and this i feel that i have the performance without the inherent guilt right right i really do i know this is a racing car but it rides like a road car thank you you've been driving this all day oh i thank you it's great thank you jay welcome to jaylon's garage the car featuring today well it looks like a porsche 935 but with the difference this was built by bc moto out of ontario california our friend bc is an amazing engineer builder kind of the epitome of the american dream comes to this country and builds a tremendous business it's got a huge following he's been on this website before you might have seen his thousand horsepower honda odyssey uh van just you know civics with crazy horsepower well let's bring bc in bc come on in my friend hello jay how are you good to see you again always good to see you good to see you thank you now i know like dylan and 65 you have gone electric isn't that correct yes i have that's right it's a new frontier for me and one that's extremely exciting okay so what do we have here we have a porsche 935 like body that is correct built on a purpose-built electric or is it a gas engine frame and it's converted what do you have here initially it started life as a 1984 porsche 911. okay so the jeep body and i found this in palm springs in a garage the president of the pca was the one who brought to my attention and he was destined to a life of never seeing a track or street again right so i decided to rescue it from palm springs bring it over to bcmoto infuse a proper kramer 935 body on it and electrify it to boot okay now is it all-wheel drive two-wheel drive what do we have in this case jay it's a real-world drive setup okay and one i'm very very proud of right now i would imagine the weight distribution is probably better than the car originally because your mid engine rather than rear engines that is correct as you know most 911s 930s especially those of the old school era tend to be quite tell heavy right right in this case because i have batteries in the front bodies in the rear and the motor shifted a little bit towards the center of the vehicle it's almost a 50 50 weight distribution now what electric motor are you using in this well it's very interesting you know you hear about tesla here and there so i took a tesla large drive unit right and modified it heavily in the normal bc motor fashion now how do you modify or is it hot rotting what is it you're doing i guess we could call it hot rod because it's the new era of hot rodding is you know using electrics and electronics to have a lot of fun now in this case what we did differently is you know if i take a step back and think about what i could do to make an ev conversion very successful i think about performance and safety those are extremely important so taking a factory drive unit from a tesla we can modify it internally modify the internals with the with the boards themselves use a limited slip differential from let's say like quaff because the ones from tesla are usually quite open and use braking systems to be able to modulate how much power goes to each wheel but it's something that i want to keep a little analog i want to go a little bit old-school so i employ what is known as an am vcu and that's a very interesting control unit which does a great job in allowing me to keep fail safes in place i can have different modes of power i have the opportunity to make sure that things are safe even derate power if the battery temperatures get a little tight or if we have a lower state of charge it's a lot of fun jay and what i created here is a beautiful 475 kilowatt setup which for those who are not into kilowatts it's 636 horsepower okay with a lot of torque so jay she's a lot of fun now let me ask you something when you modify an electric motor yes are you modifying the motor or just the amount of power going to it and related systems i mean you don't pull it out and rewind it or no the windings are same as factory just like you would with let's say a standard gasoline car right and let's say you flash tune it and you get a lot more powerful you push the envelope a little bit further but with an envelopes are very comfortable for example the factory rpm limit on the mode i use is 15 000 rpms with the amvc i was able to push the limit to 18 200 rpms now let me ask you about that because obviously they've limited to 15 000. understand because they think it comes apart at 18. not necessarily because we push the envelope past 20 and still not have failure but i like to be able to as you've seen in my other cars i like to be able to push the envelope and back off a little bit to allow for that nice safety measure because safety is extremely important right because i know in the new i have the tesla plan it's got the hot rodded electric motor it has the carbon sleeve rotor so that apparently can rev to 22 000 which means you would probably take it to 25. very possible okay that's correct and the only other physical attribute that i infused into that motor assembly are the bearings themselves so i use a bit of a ceramic matrix to allow for a lot more fluidity and for higher rpm capability without coming apart as well but apart from that it's been a blast and having controllers that can allow us to modify things even things like launch control and duration it's just a wonderful thing this is like the wild west when it comes to performance for the future and i'm happy to be at the forefront of it well that's pretty amazing thank you okay and of course there's no transmission it's just safe it's a direct drive the final ratio is nine point seven three to one we don't typically see that in petrol engines but this allows us for a single drive so therefore i don't have a transmission per se it's just like uh how should we say an integrated motor and transaxle right is what exists in this particular assembly now a tesla probably weighs 5 200 pounds because you need 400 miles of range obviously the smaller the battery the lighter the vehicle the faster it goes but the less range that is correct how much percentage of tesla battery although they might not have said yeah do you have here is it half as much a third the same you see i'm saying i would say more like a third but instead of using tesla based batteries i have lg chem cells which gives me a total of 32 kilowatt hours i have a 16 kilowatt battery pack in the front another one in the rear i use what is known as an orion bms to be able to monitor their battery packs their temperatures and their balance to make sure everything is proper and that way if i don't misbehave if i drive like a human being right i can get a well that's not gonna happen i get about 130 miles okay to a complete charge however if i drive like a madman i get about a hundred however there is a little bit of a blessing there so as you can see like a standard 935 that raced in group 5 in the 70s and 80s i have two apertures on the front hood one allows for a j1772 port the regular charging you may see at your home in the sock in the wall or if you have 220 you can just put that in but because of my on-board charger and yes electric cars have on-board chargers it will take me nine hours to completely charge right however if i look at this second opening here right here this is what is known as a chatimo fast charge so that's a dc to dc you can find that commercially anywhere in california pretty much in the world it's pretty popular thanks to nissan and some other manufacturers when i plug in 36 minutes i can go from completely depleted to completely charged and go and have some fun how is the wear and tear on the battery itself and that kind of a charge that's not a charge you would want to use on a nightly basis well i could but it could you know because it's now 500 volts going directly to the battery that's a lot of current voltage it could reduce the life slightly that's what i'm saying i mean it's like the slower you fill an electric car understood the longer the battery is going to last absolutely like i just leave my tesla's plugged in all the time driving it and my other one i drove for seven years maybe five percent depletion and that seemed about the right way to understand it now these are also water cooled batteries that's correct that's correct you can have the opportunity to initially when i built this car it was like i used ambient air to cool i used some type of convection and radiation but now it is liquid cooled as well yeah because you can't unless you're 74 degrees you lose that is correct and plus when you're charging especially rapid charging it does help the batteries quite nicely and you need to be able to especially with lithium-ion batteries you want to keep it at a certain temperature to prevent what is known as um thermal runaway yeah you don't want that and what is thermal runaway oh something very bad that's when your battery temperatures go up exponentially resulting in a fire okay now i think that's called a fire this is what i love you know this is what i love i like the electric cars here no no fire you got a thermal run away you go but you know yeah so yeah so obviously you would yes so what happens once again with safety because that's very important if i see temperatures starting to increase quite a bit the controller the am control allows me to dearate or remove power or prevent much power to be demanded from the batteries to allow them to cool down as a matter of fact i take it a step further batteries just like humans if you demand a lot of us kind of wear us out a little bit so we need time to recover so with this if you have any what i call pulse driving where you're just flooring it to have a lot of fun it would allow for an 80 power commitment for 30 seconds to allow the batteries to recover and feel better okay and that does great things to prevent them run away and also to enhance your battery life as well now is there any advantage in a race car to regen are you better off without it i love that jay you're so you're so knowledgeable yes there is you know for me range is important i have a 2013 viper gts and it was my go to the electric car that can get similar range to that 120 miles if i have a lot of fun i can do that and i achieved that with this particular vehicle with similar power output as well so that being said for me to try and extend that range as much as possible i use my braking system so when you let off you notice if you when you do drive this j you'll notice that when you let off the throttle it tends to put energy back into the vehicle right i have 75 i allow for 75 kilowatts of energy to go back to help extend my battery life and keep you going for longer range now the beauty of that once again using electronics and safety you can imagine if your battery is completely charged you don't want to keep putting energy into it right so i use once again the microprocessor in my controller to allow for that not to happen so when i'm fully charged it doesn't allow for a lot of regen back in but as my state of charge goes down lower more and more energy is allowed to go into battery pack hence more range okay now as a regen when you're coming down from high speeds i assume an electric car it needs to cool at times that is correct so regen is the same as accelerating except it's backwards that is correct but it's still producing heat yes it is and you still need to cool the batteries down and keep it certain so you really have no way to cool actually we do so in the very front i have a gt3 radiator made by csf and that has a cooling system that not only cools down the inverter which needs a lot of energy we create a lot of energy also the invert is what converts the dc current to ac and the dc is what the batteries produce ac is what my three-phase motor requires to allow for any kind of movement so that cooling system cools on the batteries and inverters so it happens constantly i have pumps in the front and all that fun stuff when i turn it on you hear a nice little hum yeah that's my water pump and the real key in electric cars especially something like a race car is the wires because the wires are essentially your fuel line that is cool you have a small fuel line you're not going to get any power so you need a big are you just using big copper very large too odd copper throughout the entire vehicle right orange of course and do you know why i have them in orange color uh no go ahead well just in case there are any emergency services not that i ever need them but if we did to show them not to cut those wires right because that could cause a thermal run away or worse yeah i got a third degree thermal runaway in my hand and what's interesting is um guess how much voltage i'm running on this okay i would 478 volts wow you're close 403 oh okay yeah you're there and you know with that you can imagine it won't be fun if you get electrocuted with 400 right that would be fun at all i was always told like a lot of cars now have 48 volts understood and because 48 volts is the amount of voltage the human body can take without going into shock or dying some people could take more but the average person touching anything more than 48 volts you're gonna probably go down so that's why a lot of cars now they have two two batteries make sense but no more than 48 volts yeah let's do it but think about what we're doing nowadays with 400 volts porsche factory 800 volts right i hear that lucid is playing around with 1200 volts and very soon people are now dwelling into 1600 volt systems wow and what happens there we have more efficient opportunities for motors you have better efficiency i'm at 90 but that can go up even better if you have higher voltages and you have the opportunity as your state of charge goes lower you still have energy because that's the one achilles heel that i've seen with performance evs yeah when instead of charge goes down so does the performance potential right think of it as a gasoline car going up in elevation right that's very similar to what we see with a lower state of charge but with higher voltages it's not as much as a problem okay so i mean the thicker the wire it's almost almost limitless the amount of power you can put into an electric motor if you just had thicker and thicker wire that is correct just think of it as energy flowing very nicely yeah you don't want any resistance resistance creates heat and lack of energy right right okay all right very good now take us around you something well how do we how do we take this right very simple you know just to pay homage to the original 935s there's a little push release there so you just push that in and pull out okay and we have another one in the bottom right here where is the other one right here in the bottom on the side as you can see it's sticking out right there oh right here yep okay that's it okay and i'll just need a little help to just lift the back up oh and here we go a little bit and we are off okay that's it all right so jay you see this i did this just for you so you can see all of the internals so it's not as sexy as this it's not it's not but quite useful you know i've seen a lot of conversions that you may see you know on youtube or some other people have done some my peer engineers put together these conversions and the team they seem to be very um convoluted yeah meaning you have all these switches you have to hit as an engineer i appreciate that but to be able to hit a switch for a negative contactor and positive contactor and pre-charge contact that's a lot so i use an old drag race set up like an old pdm from rice pack to control all electronics so what we have here is my onboard charger right yes that charger we see on the wall at home is actually a safety device this is actually the charger itself that takes ac and converts a dc to the battery now you have that in here because this is a race car actually i mean because it was a street car would you use would you use that in the race car i would oh yeah because okay every every ev has a mobile charger yeah yeah because all the wall does is sent in ac and then the ac to be converted to dc to charge the batteries and then you see the thick wires you're talking about nice and orange yeah you don't want to cut into those i have a main cut-off switch right here right i have a pre-charged contactor i have very large fuses just in case god forbid something happens i have a negative contactor positive contactors so this is a dc to dc converter as i mentioned to you my system operates at 400 volts what that does is it takes down 400 to 12 or 13.5 volts for all my accessories like the horn the lights etc and so you have like a banner unit to bring it down to 12 volts that's what this does right here with the fan that's what allows for that so what happens is when i turn the key on and this car is so easy to drive if my grandmother could drive a gym you just turn the key on and everything comes on the smart wire pdm does everything turns on the negative contactor when it makes sure that all batteries are safe it turns on one battery pack if both battery packs are within three volts of each other it handshakes and allows for the other battery pack to come on and the car is alive let me ask you a question about you know a couple of times i friends call me oh my car won't start i go to the house and you open the hood there's a big glob of green stuff it looks like a beehive on the back yes you chip that off do you get that with electric cars you can or it has so much voltage that it literally just falls oh no you can you can so to prevent that kind of condensation i do have some that's why it's a little shiny i have a paste that you use that's what i mean but occasionally if you're able to do maintenance on electric car you just want to make sure all your connectors are um you want to bring it to me and i'll handle that okay you know do that yourself and this is what is known as the orion bms the battery management system and you see all those wires going there right there are 96 cells in the back 96 cells in the front the master bms and the satellite monitors and communicates via can the controller area network setup so two wires communicate and make sure that everything is fine well all the driver has to do is just enjoy the car right well we do all the hard work and all the design as well yeah no that's great thank you that's great and you could convert this back to a 911. if you notice there's no cutting what on yeah i'm looking at saying i don't see any cuts or anything absolutely you know when a client comes by and brings his 911 930 912 wherever the case may be this is a 100 reversible process yeah and the cool thing is everything is below the axle you know most you know guys put a big v8 in here right and then you've got all this valve train up there you got that gyroscopic stuff going on you know so this is all down low so it gives a nice center of gravity yeah yeah you're not going to float that yeah and underneath here of course the battery packs are right underneath there as well and it's very nice as you mentioned earlier it's more like a mid engine setup well it is amazing i mean anytime you're in front of the rear axle absolutely it's mid-engine rear like the slr is mid-engined front because it's all the way front so it's good well very cool all right let's keep let's put this back on sounds good well let's take it for a drive sounds good gotta climb over this roll cage oh that's not bad i can't wait to hear the roar oh that's right yeah i guess i guess that's not going to happen there were if you can't wait to hear the where that engine so indicators work everything works good good i have daytime running lights just like newer cars are right right i try to combine as much combine as much new and old tech as possible or better yet i like to put in as much new technology and still remain true to the old group 5 heritage you know it's funny you can't sell something before it's time that's true you know it's like the chrysler imperial used to be a very imposing looking car then in 1934 they came out with a thing called the airflow which is very streamlined and it looked like uh you know the santa fe express one of those art deco trains right people just because it didn't have that imposing grill right it didn't look like an impressive car you know but it was better in every way couldn't give them away they finally had to go back to a traditional radiator that is so interesting i mean the thing that makes this appealing to people it looks like a porsche 935 oh but it has the advantages of all the electric the torque and the power absolutely if it looked like a silver bullet or some generic feeling oh people wouldn't know what is that thing yeah yeah oh it's beautiful it looks inside it looks like an old porsche it smells like an old porsche but performance oh yeah way nicer oh i love the door and there's no torque steer it just moves nicely thank you tell me about those wheels really unusual yeah brixton forge there's this company you know young guys and they really love old school racing and so on and so forth and we want to combine the elements of the old group five racing being the turbo fans that help with cooling brakes and so and so forth but also giving nods to formula e so you see the little vents around it that's like a formula e influence right right and then the turbo fan itself is a you know actual turbo fan that you can use to cool the brakes all that fun stuff yeah i imagine with regen do you need the cooler brakes as much no you don't as a matter of fact uh one great thing about electric cars regen is you rarely go through brakes because the braking is done by feeding energy back into the battery pack so your brakes last pads last way longer than a standard gasoline vehicle but there is no regen on the brakes the regen is on the deceleration and no there's a little bit breakthrough as well it adds as well so for the first 20 of braking reaching kicks in and if that doesn't stop enough everything else is visible so i have micro switches on the brakes as well to help show this and okay so lifting my photo off the throttle provides certainly and then tipping into breaking not touching the brake oh i thought it was one or the other i thought you were too completely different and what's even better is when you let off the throttle to regen for safety the brake lights actuate right yeah to allow that something that oems do but i do the same in my conversions i met back in the 80s i have one on my motorcycle my cbx the guy had a deceleration light oh so if you're going fast you get off the throttle really quickly bright bright bright bright right and it got it got duller depending on how interesting yeah but uh you know they tried it on taxis in a preventative accident because it was really in your face and that's right and then if you touch the brakes lightly just you know just the regular brakes interesting in my case when you descend on the brake lights come on there's a little eco light that comes on a dash right on the am dash and so it's eco you know like a little economy here and there but it shows that also remind me of the driver that the brake lights are functioning properly and i have everything from battery temps there to power percentage to door position percentage to voltage right they're all the fun stuff and state of charge so we know how much batteries we have left and it's completely manual steering the only magnet but it's not so bad isn't it no it's fine steering wheel has you know that's a flat steering wheel from malmo kind of invokes the racing from 1960s right and that's what i have on that to give you that that nice once again feel i don't want to take away too much from the heritage right i kind of wanted a little bit of the old and the new i love that i just love that meld jay oh yeah yeah i mean even my dash has my from the horn button i had a little houndstooth oh yeah yeah yeah and the delivery once again um delivery is a nod to a japanese team that raced 935s in the 70s and 80s known as team goldzie and then andy blackmore who's an accomplished designer he delivery as well kind of combined my bcmoto dark gray metallic look with that nice hot pink floor to it and this track is very talented he's designed liveries for f1 he's like design deliveries for video games and he was kind enough to lend his expertise and genius to this particular project and you build cars for people all over the world all over the world every time i spoke to the other guy in finland that is correct he has slandered things sent to us no okay and i have another 935 that was sent to me by a good friend of me from the uk that was interesting so he just sent your car half literally halfway around around the world the guy you never met and a check yes so you sent your car and a chat that is correct our representation our reputation precedes us and yeah you have a great reputation and the thing jay i came to this country with two suitcases i know well you know that's what i like i like you know i love the american dream because what happens you come to america and you work hard yes and then you eat hamburgers and pizza and french fries and you listen to music and then your kid becomes really lazy i remember you know i used to do this thing called jaywalking where we knock on the door we'd ask people questions right i remember we went to one house the grandfather came to the door spoke no english just spanish he's let me get my son the son came to the door spoke spanish english and then i met his son who had a t-shirt with an obscenity on it and he was playing some video game and couldn't have been bothered and it just you just watch it whatever you america it makes you an american that's why we need more immigrants all the time i agree because it you know it it it's it's a resurgence of energy yes sir yes sir but i think by the united states offers so much opportunity i've had the best education in this country and above and beyond that my father i remember when leaving gave me a bit of advice he said bc america that's the place to be to be the best you could be and the worst japanese right exactly if you want to be completely useless there's everything here but if you want to be the best in any facet of your life america is a place to do it yeah that's great i i love that sort of american dream yes sir is your dad still with us yes all right so he gets a chance to see him oh he visits he's so proud yeah yeah he's so proud yeah that's wonderful i come from a family of scientists my dad is a geologist my mom's a biochemist right biochemist and my family my siblings are all scientists as well so yeah you know just i'm the firstborn so i kind of lead the charge right you like that he's charged leave the charge yeah it's very good that's shocking it was electrifying yeah another thing i love about electric vehicles you know i'm a i'm an enthusiast first before an engineer i just love the fact that there's no lag it's just no lag and you know i'm past the point now where the gas price doesn't matter two dollars 260. right two-fifth no problem i'm seeing eight nine dollars now i go no i'm gonna take something out i'll take i'll take the tesla which is faster of course it's cheaper you know if we had a conversation about electric cars five years ago you couldn't pay me to do anything with it but it's just i was a die-hard petrol head die hard oh yeah but now after building my own and seeing the experience and you see it's not completely quiet there's a nice supercharger like line in the back it's different but not bad just different i love it well when i i meet people and say i don't like electric cars when you want to win the race or not exactly what do you want to do okay now what steering box is this it's a factory 930 i don't know what it is just like factory did not have any assist of anything you don't have any system as you remember this chassis was originally a 1984 chassis so has everything like you had seen in 1984 911 930 with exception of only two pedals opposed to three you would like my own magnetic oh because that's a gas engine okay which drives an enormous electro electromagnetic transmission interesting because batteries were not very good right today it's an electric car that's powered by an internal combustion engine interested in this 1960 yeah no way yeah that's what it has regen and everything oh that's fantastic i love technology in fact the ants electric transmission was developed in 1897. really yeah so i gathered electric vehicles were pretty much you know right there at the beginning and then somehow they predated gas cars yeah and some of my gas cars took over well you have to think of it like beta and vhs back back in the 70s and 80s beta was actually the spirit of technology but v8 seconds was cheaper to manufacture so they flooded the market so it became the standard what are you going to do you know everything was vhs so petrol cars on video gasoline cars have had a 100 year start you can advance the technology over electric vehicles well the first land speed record was electric wow in fact i haven't i have a battery at the garage that was uh made by thomas edison okay very nice it was experimental battery uh edison wrote a letter to henry ford saying i have something that will replace the models it's a battery that'll make the electric car viable wow but it never did oh my goodness a lot of people know henry ford used to work with thomas edison i didn't even know that yeah i look forward to battery technology improving as time progresses and hence all of my builds can keep the motors in the same spot yeah but the batteries can easily be modular and upgraded as technology improves oh yeah in fact i would say battery technology it's come further the last 20 years than it did in the previous 80. i agree although my 1909 banker gets 80 miles on a chart that's not bad no that's very good that's amazing well you're only going 22 miles an hour but don't forget all the roads were cobblestone understood thomas edison came out with an alkaline battery i have one of the few he invented and the idea was you would fill it with alkaline and charge it until the alkaline quote wore out right as as liquids do sometimes and you could use it over and over again but it never quite had the potential that and it's powerful but not brutal yes you know it's so linear he invokes a good confidence as well doing that and you know what to expect but she only weighs 26.81 i like the fact that the engine does double duty both braking yes and powering and if you need a lot more than the then the regen system allows there's very nice top 10 brakes stop take breaks all around to help you mechanically as well now if somebody brought like a 911 to you and wanted to convert it what would the conversion run can you say yes depending on the options could be anywhere from 80 to 90 000 options eighty to ninety thousand this cost me a little bit over twenty two and forty thousand to build two forty yeah yeah now you have a lot of manufacturers like ford they're making a great electric money i saw that which is four thousand dollars yes which is what about a third the price of you know uh create internal combustion that's correct for the same token i still yearn for that extra power more than you know 200 or 300 horsepower you know right so the performance enthusiast first having you know six seven eight hundred nine horsepower and evs that's like a blessing for me i just something to look forward to and when you have places like pike's peak whereas elevation the electric motor could care less right so it doesn't matter where you are i believe it's a lightning motorcycle set the bike's big right yes yes and vw's done quite a bit as well yeah with their id racer and nowadays in california united states period where emissions tends to be a challenge the fact that i have a vehicle that looks like this and it's a zero emission vehicle right it's 50 state legal yeah that's just great yeah you don't have any problem and you can convert back you know porsches are expensive but they're not rare that's correct there's thousands of crappy beat up portions of blown engines around not a lot but enough that you could do a conversion without the porsche club of america showing up at your door very true and if you have the itch to go back to gasoline you can easily convert it back yeah it's funny you know it's all what you're used to i mean justice today model t's are not worth any more now than they were 25 or 30 years ago because people have no relation to them they don't understand them anymore and kids born today we don't have any need for an internal combustion engine it doesn't by the time they're adults it will not do anything better understood it won't have the range you won't have the shifting of weight as you use the as you use the liquid you know you're not dropping 180 pounds all of a sudden understood i have a word inkling j that years from now people look at us like you actually used to dig something out of the ground refining and putting a car for transportation yeah we may get there yeah well let me ask you this question how much does battery energy weigh if i take lithium ion batteries fully charged and i weigh it yes then i put it in the car and exhaust it to zero does it weigh less it does in grams it does it does yes i've seen studies where they actually weighed a fully charged pack bear in mind it was over 100 kilowatt hours right but there was a weight differential between and what was the weight difference was in grams it was a few grams just a few grams but you know i think uh i can't remember the name of the english scientists who weighed smoke ah because he put a cigarette on yeah he'd smoke it and then and the smoke went different interesting yeah interesting but that's kind of what does energy itself weigh yeah there is a way to it there is but i look forward to the event and propagation or improvement in let's say because i'm hearing a lot about super capacitors nowadays and other battery cells that have more density more energy density and weight like you know less weight have less weight yeah i mean when that comes to the market i mean that's it i mean imagine having a vehicle that weighs less than this but you get 700 miles to a full charge and they can accept charge even faster where you can charge up a you know a 700 mile pack in 15 minutes or 12 minutes oh so what do you think's involved oh i think it's fabulous no it's not it's very impressive everything works horn works indicators work i have daytime running lights in the front right there's a company la known as 911 and 911 designs and they have this raven 9 headlights that they tend to retrofit better optics and older plastic porsches i was able to use their services to be able to create this for the 935 and uh yeah once again taking all that's good from the future and combining it with all the things we love during the past and right this is the result when i film my next one i'm going to put in some more creature comforts like ac and power steering right i do have a bluetooth radio in here which is invisible because i like the minimalist look but uh you know make it a little bit more comfortable when i'm done with that i'll bring it back have you take a look i'd love to see that sounds good i have to admit i always have an enamored of dashboards with all kinds of information differential temperature just all the different yeah i i just find i just like having that information sounds good at my fingertips and what i have is the am dash there which is the cd5 and that gives you quite a bit of information you can scroll through different screens but i also wanted to make it look as user friendly as possible once you happen to really have to take your eyes from the road you just glance down and keep going you watch people start stealing electric vehicles to get the copper wire you know what oh don't put it out there jake yeah i never happened no it's gonna happen and even batteries now how expensive iron batteries are that is one of the most expensive components in the conversion like this other batteries yeah what do you think what do you think the hybrid battery for the mclaren f1 i mean they're firing p1 i couldn't how much do you think the battery is i could imagine 70 grand 180 oh my goodness wow yeah wow that's a pretty penny but when you figure the average fill up these days is gonna be a hundred dollars easily but it's quite relaxing to drive and there's no engine there's no heat so understood yeah and what did you call a fire a thermal what was it thermal runaway but it's not a good thing to happen yeah and that's one of the challenges with lithium-ion batteries but you know i don't know i noticed like whenever there's a tesla fire and there's millions and millions tens of millions probably have teslas out there understood they still don't seem as prevalent as a gasoline fire understanding there seems to be way more gasoline fires but to the general public you know when those headlines start of course oh no god those things exactly right because they're newer and you know it's more sensational to talk about those things you know but you're right i mean the way some people even attack electric vehicles kind of gets to me sometimes especially the fact that i converted a porsche or 935-ish looking porsche as well but if you really think about it if i want to be mean i could say well i want a petrol car and a gasoline car you're sitting on a liquid flammable bomb that's missing a tank of flammable fluids and the nice thing is with an electric car if you sense there's a fire you can stop it at any time by pulling that main that's correct that means most people don't know where it is now you've cut the electricity it's over you know fire stopped and but you know to be honest with you i do carry a little extinguishing stick behind me there's a company called element and they make extinguishers that also extinguish electrical fires so just in case yeah i have this stick i'd click it and well from afar oh my distance after that safety first no matter what gasoline or safety first i know this is a racing car but it rides like a road car thank you i mean that's i mean i even drive this all day oh thank you it's great thank you jay how much does air conditioning pull from something like this oh it can be quite it depends you know there there are electric you know mercedes-benz hyundai tesla they make pretty efficient electric compressors right but it can't it can decrease for example 100 mile range it can take off at least 20. all right yeah yeah it can i remember the old days like i've got a chrysler apparel it's got dual air conditioning oh wow and you go along and you turn it both on it you just feel it now you got to give it more gas just make up for it i'll get those compressors going you know what's interesting engine control you just do that automatically whenever there's a demand it raises the idle or raises the uh the requirements to allow to compensate for it and you still use more fuel a lot of people don't think about that but energy is not free whether you use a heating system or cooling system it does take enough that's why most electric vehicles they cool the seat yes or they heat the seat because they're not having to heat or cool the entire no but this drives and handles wonderful thank you jay i appreciate the kind of words and with electric motors when you get them i i imagine you usually get them from teslas that have been an auto accident both you know i've been kind enough to have some relationships coming what i'm saying is it's not like buying a second-hand internal combustion engine it has so many miles it's worn out from friction you know electric motors the beauty is that they have much fewer moving parts as well yeah and very little maintenance yeah so you know one of the things i have my eyes on sets on like maybe you know you know the old-school rolls-royces like the silver spurs right beautiful cars very luxurious but not the best in terms of reliability right imagine having an electric one well that's what i mean i would have thought rolls-royce would have been one of the first one electric i agree because the whole thing is quiet and silent and all that type of thing you know but yeah you'll see actually i drove 15 years ago in electric rolls oh my goodness how was that experience it was interesting it didn't have a huge amount of rain but it it convey what a rolls-royce is supposed to be silently you know they only hear the clock ticking so jay what if i built one of those would you be able to give me some feedback on it sure that'd be fun sounds good consider it done and it is funny to watch the thing change because even guys i know that are internal combustion enthusiasts understand pollution and in the old days it was like who cares that it's got that hemi i don't care how much smoke i blow you know and those days seem to be got people to feel a more sense of responsibility about the hobby you know so the fact that if you can get twice the power at half the cost even less than half the car really why not i've always had that guilt with my gasoline cars initially i just ran gasoline and i knew what i was putting out there in terms of hydrocarbons and oxides nitrogen not guilty enough to do anything about it and you fell killed a little bit i think alcohol-based fuels right yeah so even my minivan runs on alcohol because i want to be able to do something a little bit better but it's still i still want it more and this i feel that i have the performance without the inherent guilt right right i really do yeah no it's great well bc i'm very proud of your accomplishments thank you so much i love people who come to america and contribute something and and and make uh and make a great product like this you know it's really terrific so you're a terrific engineer a great guy and a good builder thank you my friend thank you jason we'll see you again with the next project sounds good the best is yet to come yeah yeah i want to see bring that rules by i will just get that idea right now i did i sure did yeah so give me a few months i'll have it to you today i am very fortunate to be in this country and be in this era where i got to touch yeah different types of means of culture yeah you have kids that go you know my dad worked with carburetor how old is he oh this thing is great [Music] uh

Channel: Jay Leno's Garage

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Keywords: Bisi Ezerioha, Bisimoto, EV, electric cars, fast electric cars, electric race car, Porsche, 935, Kremer, electric Porsche, gearhead, battery, technology, renewable energy, car porn, race car, Tesla, Elon Musk

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Length: 43min 52sec (2632 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 25 2022