How to build a Tesla in your Garage!! - Electric SuperCar

okay so you've built this whole thing in your garage right yes and does it move yet yes it does can we try it let's do it so during quarantine some people sit and scroll on their phones some people bake bread but this guy built an entire electric car in his garage let's get started [Music] so in the simplest of terms how in the world does all of this work so the simplest of terms we've got a tesla motor electric motor run by batteries let me show you so back here we've got the tesla motor that's kind of the uh powertrain of everything a lot of horsepower this is the high voltage cables that's where we get our power power from the battery packs all right so we have a tesla motor but are we using tesla battery modules no no we're not so how does that work so uh tesla just needs kind of a round of 400 volt uh battery power so i'm actually using lg chem batteries uh 12 battery modules essentially six in each pack i've got two packs that gives me roughly 400 volts what did you have to do to make the tesla motor work good question so the tesla motor we need a controller and so there's only a few companies out there that make a controller for the tesla motor this is the controller here and uh basically it sends can signals to the motor that kind of tell it how to run so i've been watching a lot of your videos and i think i can point out most of the major components so should we see how far i get before okay let's see what's up so inside of this car we have the front battery pack here which you said was lg kim batteries right and so these batteries these orange cables are the high voltage lines and they are running back to the rear battery pack which we'll get to in a second this here is the front radiator which has liquid inside that cools down the batteries so far so good okay and then these high voltage lines are gonna come across through the center of the vehicle you can see the orange tubing right there and those high voltage lines come all the way back here to the second battery pack which we have a nice little on off switch there and they also provide power to the rear motor which i think sums up all the big parts so tell me about the frame though because obviously this frame wasn't designed for the tesla motor right that is correct so this was designed for a honda accord drivetrain so how to do a few modifications this goes a little faster than a honda accord right yes quite a bit faster and how fast have you taken it so far probably not above 60. whatever you can do in a parking lot okay all right let's talk about the low voltage system for a second because i want to know how that works so low voltage uh this is kind of the my center node of everything i've done this somewhat old school so everything's kind of based on relays this is all the things to control headlights turn signals on off switch hazards and so where is the 12-volt battery at so that's on the other side here so we have the 12-volt battery so power comes into the car from the wall where's the plug-in so this is my uh vehicle kind of charge port this is still a work in progress duct tape is just part of the masterpiece power comes from the wall to the charge port right here we've got this is our on-board charger so this converts it from 220 volts to roughly 400 volts that can charge the battery other than that you got your dc to dc converter that's about the only other kind of system and the reason we need a high voltage and low voltage system is because we're not going to have our headlights and the horn run off of 400 volts that would be overkill so we have two systems one to run the lower power stuff and then one to run the motor and where we need you know all of the big power speaking of big power these wheels are insane check this out so are these from a honda accord as well no are they part of the tesla system no so the the rotors the suspension that's all part of the tesla system the wheels are not the wheels are just uh what fit the car so they're 19-inch rims 325 30 19. so this is the rear battery pack here front battery pack over here and we have one battery cell or i guess one battery module right here and we're gonna weigh it and see how many how many of these are in the car and 12 in the car and this weighs 40 pounds oh my gosh so 12 times 40 480 pounds worth of batteries did you know that yeah it all came on one pallet it was very heavy so even though this whole contraption is much lighter than a tesla the batteries still make up the bulk of the weight because the frame doesn't weigh that much right okay so you've built this whole thing in your garage right yes and doesn't move yet yes it does can we try it let's do it okay sweet i trust it duct tape and everything let's go start so basically that kicks on their 12-volt system which turns on the controller controller turns on the contactors for the high voltage and the engine is revving right now right it's good to go the only sound you can hear is essentially the coolant pump this thing is sweet all right let's go [Music] this is so small it's almost like getting in dan's roadster all right so we are missing a couple things like a windshield all right i'm ready [Music] so your problem isn't power your problem is traction yes you can't you can't stick to the ground long enough to actually get full speed yes that is true so right now we are at about two-thirds power so we're at about 340 uh kilowatts so it can go up to 620. 475. so 620 horsepower all right so even though it's cold how what is it like 32 degrees right now it's like freezing even though it's cold we're gonna try to see how fast we can accelerate and see what the 0-60 time is the tires are just gone like as soon as it starts spinning that's on me okay okay it's the driver round two yeah getting out of the seat is much easier than getting in it so like we mentioned earlier there are two battery packs and they are supplying enough volts to this motor it is overdoing it on the power side of things we're just losing traction with how powerful this is you ready oh my gosh that's insane that's incredible every time huh well if you wanted to yeah when you use a tesla motor what do you get so again it's kind of the controller the motor is a motor very powerful motor the controller is kind of what allows you to apply that power so depending on what controller you have what settings you have that kind of allows you to do kind of whatever you want that's incredible so basically in here we have the tesla motor but we have none of the tesla safety precautions which makes it a whole lot more fun how would traction control work if you had if you wanted it i guess we would need wheel speed sensors in the front to kind of make sure that it knows when the back wheels are spinning faster in the front so right now when he peels out the tires are slipping but the computer has no idea because there's no sensors where the tires are at which for some people would be an inconvenience i kind of like it though i'll tell you the only thing that's kind of glitchy is the gear selector oh you have to take off the steering wheel to get out trust me is that going to be fixed later on or is that just how it is forever uh with this car that's how it is forever so can you imagine the steering wheel on right so now if i take my foot off the brake on the gas rolling backwards a little wow all right this is so smooth yeah it's like because like in a normal car you have everything protected and you have yes this is very this is like a skeleton no safety sensors i mean i have the steering wheel falls off this is sick this is just like a roadster now that we're both sufficiently frozen what is the hardest part of building your own diy tesla i'd say it's perseverance i think you gotta you gotta really love the build that's that's i think the hardest part because you started with just like a bare metal frame right yeah there are so many components cause like you have to think about it there's like the steering there's the braking there's the headlights tail lights there's so many different parts to this thing are you a normal guy who just decided to do this are you an expert in vehicles pretty normal guy uh to me like i said i just it's kind of always a passion of mine to build a car and so uh just you know finally got the guts to do it and uh i've loved it so again it's it's all part of the process you know if you don't like the build you're not gonna like uh building and so you wanted to build a car you didn't want to start with something old school like a mustang or something you want to start with the hardest components electrical components to work with that's right so i know you're not done with this project yet but on your next project what would you change i'd start from scratch like frame and everything i would i think that's been one of my biggest challenges is trying to squeeze things into space as they weren't designed for so we are back in the garage again and i think one of the next steps is this so what steps do you have left to finish off the body of your electric vehicle yeah so these are all the panels that i have left to put on a lot of fiberglass work a lot of just fitting the panels so it gets gets it a good look all right let me know down in the comments i'm sure he already knows what color he's going to end up painting it but let me know down in the comments what color you think you should paint it i'm kind of thinking we should go glow-in-the-dark but that's just me anyway if you want to see all of his videos about building this whole contraption they're pretty impressive i'll leave a link to his channel over here and to finish this off what is one word of advice you would give or one sentence of advice you would give to someone who's going to attempt a project like this themselves perseverance stay with it it's worth it it's the long haul thanks to for watching we'll see you [Music] around [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2021