{"id":97430,"date":"2019-10-14T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/its-a-crate-motor-only-electric-for-ev-conversions-from-electric-gt"},"modified":"2019-10-14T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:03:12","slug":"its-a-crate-motor-only-electric-for-ev-conversions-from-electric-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/its-a-crate-motor-only-electric-for-ev-conversions-from-electric-gt","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a crate motor, only electric, for EV conversions from Electric GT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three years ago, an outfit called Electric GT<\/a> (EGT), led by Eric Hutchison, hit the green tech radar by converting a 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS<\/a> to an electric car<\/a>. Out went the mid-mounted 2.9-liter V8 making 280 horsepower and 181 pound-feet of torque, in went 48 lithium-ion batteries powering three AC51 HPEVS electric motors that cumulatively produced 465 hp and 330 lb-ft. The company\u2019s relocated from San Diego to Chatsworth, California, and is back on the scopes at Green Car Reports<\/em><\/a> with what it calls an Electric Crate Motor<\/a>. The innovation repackages the ICE crate motor methodology into a system making EV<\/a> conversions easier for the weekend enthusiast. EGT promises a plug-and-play system with \u201chigh performance and near zero maintenance,\u201d having packaged its one- and two-motor systems into a \u201cmotor block\u201d and peripherals that look just like an internal combustion engine.<\/p>\n

The block includes everything necessary for the swap to electric except the batteries and the mounting bracket, meaning\u201d motor(s), controller(s), charger(s), sensors, relays and computer systems.\u201d EGT has already designed a number of mounting brackets, and can design others to custom specs. According to the web site, the package is \u201cpre-engineered, pre-built, and pre-tested,\u201d so installation takes five steps: Bolt in the block, install the wiring harness and cooling system, connect the AC and DC power leads with the OEM-level touch-safe connectors, and route the internal cooling pump to a heat exchanger. Voila, silent running. Every e-crate motor comes with an installation manual, EGT provides tech support, and auxiliaries like electric AC compressors and heaters can be optioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three years ago, an outfit called Electric GT (EGT), led by Eric Hutchison, hit the green tech radar by converting a 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS to an electric car. Out went the mid-mounted 2.9-liter V8 making 280 horsepower and 181 pound-feet of torque, in went 48 lithium-ion batteries powering three AC51 HPEVS electric motors that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}