Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:34 pm
Has anyone made an electric Model T? I think it would be great to drive it without the annoying engine sound.
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Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:40 pm
There was a thread a while back on that subject.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:26 pm
I rather enjoy the engine sound, but then especially my '13, Clarabelle, runs so quiet usually you hear the coils clicking over any engine noise. The rest is the wind blowing in one ear and out the other. 
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:59 pm
I LOVE the sound of a Model T engine. The putter it makes makes me purr like my cat being stroked!
Someday if fuel is taken away we may need to go electric but it sure will not be a choice I would ever make voluntarily.
Having said that, I imagine it would be pretty easy to mount a battery under the seats and to replace the gasoline motor unit with an electric one.
Someday if fuel is taken away we may need to go electric but it sure will not be a choice I would ever make voluntarily.
Having said that, I imagine it would be pretty easy to mount a battery under the seats and to replace the gasoline motor unit with an electric one.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:22 pm
Without the T engine, it has no heart, no soul. It is no longer a Model T Ford. It is now a golf cart.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:32 pm
I'd much rather have a neat little 24HP Yanmar Diesel under the hood, like I have in my CubCadet/Yanmar sub-compact tractor!
Has a similar "ticking" noise like a T, is about the same footprint, maybe even a little lighter, and got power galore! I know it's
been done with some diesel engine, saw a pic once, might have been posted by Joe Bell a while back.
Has a similar "ticking" noise like a T, is about the same footprint, maybe even a little lighter, and got power galore! I know it's
been done with some diesel engine, saw a pic once, might have been posted by Joe Bell a while back.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:06 pm
Surely, without "the annoying engine sound" the T would become a museum exhibit? Just thinking out loud!
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:58 pm
This is the thread https://mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18064 as pictures of several DIY's and one Ford electric No 2
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:06 pm
Seems to me that the solution is to get a original era electric car. I have a 1920 Detroit cw the original style iron nickel alkaline “Edison” batteries. Runs nominally on 84 volts. This made sense at the time because with a vacuum tube rectifier running from 110 volts AC no transformer needed.
Good for about 70 miles on a charge at about 30 mph
Good for about 70 miles on a charge at about 30 mph
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:37 pm
Let's not be giving the politicians any ideas, we will be driving electric cars soon enough without converting our old cars to electric.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:48 am
A hundred years of the model T and we've gone from spookin' horses to wakin' politicians, now that's progress for you !
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:50 am
T mecanic sound music for my ears. It is like a Ferrari without sound, it doesn't make sense for me. I'm in line for the Tesla CyberTruck but I will keep my 2 t's has is for sure. The CyberTruck will tow my trailer and my T's as well. We call that paradox. My humble opinion
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:25 am
Converting a T to electric has crossed my mind but more in the direction of gas electric. I would think of it more in the realm of a Detroit or Baker.
Re: Electric Model T?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:09 pm
Model T's sound great as they are, IMHO.
But as a non-T owner I was thinking what would happen to build an electric motorcar on a T frame--it's perfect. The brakes are enclosed and the tires are smaller, so two major sources of pollution (brake dust and tire fragments) are reduced. Ground clearance is of course great...a fibreglas sedan body or doped canvas would be a light and tough body and if canvas it could be biodegradable.
A Model T - style electric motor car would be the best option for an eco-friendly automobile. Tesla cars are neat but they are unnecessarily fast -- It would be more efficient to build an electric T and drive forty, than to build a high-performance electric and go ninety.
These are all interesting questions.
But as a non-T owner I was thinking what would happen to build an electric motorcar on a T frame--it's perfect. The brakes are enclosed and the tires are smaller, so two major sources of pollution (brake dust and tire fragments) are reduced. Ground clearance is of course great...a fibreglas sedan body or doped canvas would be a light and tough body and if canvas it could be biodegradable.
A Model T - style electric motor car would be the best option for an eco-friendly automobile. Tesla cars are neat but they are unnecessarily fast -- It would be more efficient to build an electric T and drive forty, than to build a high-performance electric and go ninety.
These are all interesting questions.