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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:03 am 
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Looking at this website, I see a lot about HHO and LPG but not about traditional EVs or hybrids. Is it that Falcons are too large to run on electricity? Is it too expensive to perform? I know that on Ecomodders.net, they mainly use 2G Swifts and EG Civics for conversions, but I need the space. Toyota in Japan have both the Kluger and Tarago (Estima) in hybrid so I don't see much of a problem but I doubt they will bring them here, and if they do, they will be freaking expensive.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:40 am 
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well there is a lexus 4x4 hybrid factory

to convert a falcon... well there would a s**t of work for it to be done

and would cost enough to run the car on petrol for 30+years

 

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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:18 am 
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An EV falcon wouldnt be hard at all since there would be plenty of room for the motor and batteries, although to get decent performance youd need a pretty big (expensive) motor and a pretty big (expensive) battery pack, you be looking at around $8,000 if you wanted it to perform in a similar manner to the stock car, and you will loose some load carrying capacity as the batteries add quite a bit of weight.

petrol/elec hybrid would be much harder as its a much more complex setup than pure electric

 

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