Vancouver man turns his Humvee electric

[Applause] a family project turned into an automotive environmental initiative for one vancouver entrepreneur kits eye care ceo roger hardy has converted a 1991 humvee into a fully electric vehicle i liked the idea of a humvee for so long and then once i had it it was kind of a you know confluence of influences at that time my wife got a tesla x we loved the tesla so much and then just started thinking about you know just how interesting electric vehicles were how it's obviously the future and you know looking at this diesel gas guzzler there was a disconnect so i thought what a project for me and my boy to take on and start building this electric humvee at that point it was clear that just about everything needs to be redone you need to redo the low voltage you've got to do some high voltage and you've got a pretty much everything back together from start the labor of love with help from hardy's young son took a year to complete he also needed a hand from some local experts for the complex conversion to electric while humvees are known for their imposing racket his revamped model is virtually silent you know it's funny how fast people get this electric because there's no sound there's no real sound to it just that buzz they get this electric very fast and they don't tend to you know be as irate as i think they were with a diesel i guess they love it or hate it but most people you know that i've seen really really like it according to hardy as concerns over vehicle emissions rise and gas prices continue to spike auto consumers are going green more than ever i think the goal when we started was if this can be electric everything can be electric the world's come a long way in kind of the 18 months since this was you know kind of been conceived and executed so i think people are going to be converting you know everything from old old all old cars will go electric you get a million miles out of these engines i think that's kind of the way the the planet's going to go with all these collectibles i'm happy to have this original this is kind of a unique truck and so yeah it's pretty cool thor dai cow via

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Length: 2min 1sec (121 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021