Bill replied:
> As I said before, you have made a case that there may be a market for a > high-performance convertible EV. Why build the whole car when you can > modify/customize an existing car and get exactly what you believe there is > a market for? Great idea Bill. What 2-door sports car do I start with? ;^) A hacked up 4-door Tesla is nowhere close to "exactly what you believe there is a market for". If someone wants a 4-door EV let em just buy a Tesla and keep me out of what I think is a money losing proposition. BTW, I AM starting with an existing car and modifying it. It at least has the right number of doors and already comes as a convertible. > Buy Tesla, chop off the top, and install a very nice custom convertible > (or removable hard top, or a T-top.) See how much you can sell it for to > test the market. > There are a few reasons why I do not want to go that route: 1) It's a *4-door*. I want a sports car and nowhere in my definition of a "sports car" does "4-door" fit. 2) The cost of entry is too high. I would spend my entire budget and end up with a useless (to me) 4-door convertible. 3) It's a* 4-door*. 4) I can't say "I designed it and built it". At best I get to say "I hacked up a Tesla." 5) It's still a *4-door*. 6) I don't think the market for a 4-door convertible is a good measure of the market for a convertible sports car. 7) It's still a *4-door*. 8) I already feel bad enough when I see a nice C5 driving down the road and I say "I actually hacked up one of those to do my project!" Think how bad I'd feel having hacked up a Tesla. 9) It's still a *4-door*. 10) I'd MUCH rather own my car as an ICE than a hacked up Tesla *4-door* convertible. 11) I laugh at the idiots that in the past have built *4-door* convertibles. I have no desire to be the butt of my own jokes. ;^) 12) You could be right and there isn't a market for my car. I'd rather have my car as a limited range EV than a *4-door* convertible. 13) I'm not a fan of the Tesla body style (even if it DIDN'T have *4-doors*). I'd have to rebody the thing to get what I want. Bill, I'm not saying your approach wouldn't work, but I can't see investing all that money and time building something I don't want and I don't think there would be a market for it. Then I'd be stuck with the stupid thing. Remember, I started my discussion asking if a $10k Leaf would be a good starting point. The intent there was to keep my cost of entry as low as possible for my prototype. I could buy a LOT of used Leafs for the cost of a Tesla! Luckily someone mentioned the form factor of a Leaf battery pack sucks. I didn't know that. If it won't fit between the rails of a truck frame it sure won't fit inside the confines of a sports car. Seriously Bill, I'm just looking for advice and help. But telling me to scrap my project and build what you think I should build doesn't help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160114/880ef7c0/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
