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#ive just started VERY GENTLY looking into this actually bc i uh. have acquired a second car. my grandpa's old car.
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not me thinking about trying to shell out to convert my fiat to a Plug in hybrid? hmmmmm
#toy txt post
#ive just started VERY GENTLY looking into this actually bc i uh. have acquired a second car. my grandpa's old car.
#it is a tiny fuckin go cart geo from 1992 stick shift and im gonna try to learn stick shift on it but anyway i was like hmm perhaps....i
#could learn on that car? what if i did a project? what if i ripped out that tiny little engine and made it into a hybrid or electric?
#i found one little DIY blog of someone who converted a very similar car to electric and then back into a hybrid to increase range
#so its maybe doable? altho that one was from like 2012 and the hybrid conversion involved?? a propane tank in the trunk?
#which. feels not ideal. idk. but then also i found one that looks way more current and legit? they seem to focus on like. fleets of
#commercial cars BUT they have a section for consumer cars? it seems to be some kind of kit that they ship out to a qualified mechanic.
#which honestly if i can afford it i think i would prefer that bc idk shit about cars and im sure dad could try to teach me but hybrid might
#be outside his wheelhouse...hes worried about the weight itll add but like idk? there already are electric fiats same age as mine so
#clearly they figured it out for that and that was w the older tech from the 2010s?
#but i have no idea what the price is for a professional conversion bc it requires getting an actual Quote from them
#and i am not ready for that step yet!!!!! but like. god. next new car i buy i want to be a plug in hybrid i think
#that seems like it would be a better choice for how i use a car than a fully ev unless i shell out for one of the real expensive bitches
#full of soooo many ''luxury'' features that i will hate so much not to mention how many now standard modern features i despise...ugh
#there was one i liked....toyota yaris plug in hybrid....it is....only available in europe and the uk :))) so id have to figure out
#purchasing and importing a foreign car without even a test drive unless i want to get on an airplane (aka flying covid tube) and do that
#and like i wouldnt mind visiting europe sometime and seeing all my internet friends over there but like i dont want to have to go over for
#like. a car. u kno? plus every car that is not My Fiat is bad and wrong and makes me angry and stressed to drive so honestly
#idk might as well accept my commitment to it as a future moneypit and make it more eco friendly and save on gas
#tho im sure if im charging it at the house ill have to negotiate paying at least part of the electric bill or smth...id love to get some
#kind of portable solar charger on it too so im not necessarily just relying on the fossil fuel electricity at my house either? idk. but
#that seems hard to find at best and idk like id want to use it while my car is parked jn the parking lot but i suppose there'd be an
#increased risk of it getting stolen depending on where i am? idk
#part of me is like i should try to professionally convert my fiat to hybrid and then maybe do the geo just ev since im not gonna be takin
#that thing long distances anyway? but idk. theres also that little nagging fear about like the fire risk cos i always hear about teslas
#with the scary fire shit from that new battery tech and other evs are using that too now to get comparable ranges so like?? are they less
#safe? should i be concerned about putting smth like that on an already less safe car from the 90s? or should i just be like well fuck it
#this shit is a deathtrap anyway? and then have intrusive thoughts about car fires the entire time im trying to focus on learning stick?
#also stick shift fucking stressful. why does it go backwards so fucking fast? what gives?
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