As a PASSIONATE Tesla supporter (buying a Model 3 - will be first on the reserve list) and an inventor/car builder I often dream of the day I could buy parts for our EV project from Tesla.
I've searched the Net for traction motors, found a few (YASA, DELTA - which I design systems for) but never any Tesla drive units.
As a drive design specialist (engineer VFD systems or 36 years for GE, Toshiba, Eaton, Schneider) I know the technology better than most and as a car enthusiast I often felt it would be super cool to bring an EV restomod to SEMA and blow away the typical hot rodder mentality with modern, computer driven EV technology.
As a 4 patent holder (owned the original patent back in 1989 for what is now known as Red-Box video) I am used to being way in front of the pack when it comes to dreaming. Why I love Elon so much.. He is exactly the same...
When we showed Ford our "new" 1972 Mach I
they loved the design so much so we got sponsorships from both Eaton and Ford but I just cant get excited about putting 100 year fuel driven technology into a super modern drive by wire, touch screen controlled restomod.
But if we could only get the parts to make those dreams a reality....
I've searched the Net for traction motors, found a few (YASA, DELTA - which I design systems for) but never any Tesla drive units.
As a drive design specialist (engineer VFD systems or 36 years for GE, Toshiba, Eaton, Schneider) I know the technology better than most and as a car enthusiast I often felt it would be super cool to bring an EV restomod to SEMA and blow away the typical hot rodder mentality with modern, computer driven EV technology.
As a 4 patent holder (owned the original patent back in 1989 for what is now known as Red-Box video) I am used to being way in front of the pack when it comes to dreaming. Why I love Elon so much.. He is exactly the same...
When we showed Ford our "new" 1972 Mach I
they loved the design so much so we got sponsorships from both Eaton and Ford but I just cant get excited about putting 100 year fuel driven technology into a super modern drive by wire, touch screen controlled restomod.
But if we could only get the parts to make those dreams a reality....