Electric – Make your Nissan Figaro electric for 5k in less than a day
Before you get too excited this is still a concept but Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofit (REVR) is a new method for converting internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles into hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) that offers significant cost and time savings. The design was entered into the James Dyson Award 2023 and won by Australian Alexander Burton. We have made contact with Alexander in the hope that we can work with them to create a set of components that could be fitted to a Figaro. Read more
The motor mounting system and the design of the motor means it doesn’t need to be ‘locked’ to the axle hub which then allows for hybrid use of the existing engine. A retrofitted car can have two or four of these electric wheel motors as well as customisable wheel well battery size. Current retrofit services start at $50k and take weeks to complete due to the custom components required. REVR could cost as little as $5k without rebates and can be installed in under a day.
We are reaching out to Figaro Garages to get involved in this initiative in the hope that this could be a commercially viable solution. The club will be following this exciting development with interest as will not only provide a hybrid electric solution for our Figgies but may well also help with solving the ULEZ issue!!
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