ROME – One of the main obstacles to the electric transition taking off is the high cost of purchasing a battery-powered car. It would be different if, by spending less than half, you could continue to use your internal combustion car but convert it into an electric car. And all in just 8 hours. This is what the German startup e-Revolt intends to do, which has presented an ambitious project to convert 42 car models in circulation from the main car manufacturers, including Volkswagen Golf and Polo, Audi A3 and Seat Leon, from petrol and diesel to electric, with a kit suitable for everyone and a cost between 12,000 and 15,000 euros.
Naturally it is not the first company capable of offering this solution, the principle is also applied to vintage cars. But the process is very arduous and the conversion work can take a long time: from two weeks to six months.
e-Revolt, on the other hand, is the first company that has managed to optimize the work process, reducing the conversion time to electric in just 8 hours. The first real experiment was carried out on a Volkswagen Golf 7 Variant previously equipped with a diesel engine. e-Revolt engineers removed the old engine block and replaced it with patented battery and motor chassis technology, while also fully digitalizing the vehicle. At the end of the process, completed in about a day of work, the car was 100% electric and with an estimated range of between 250 and 300 km on a single charge.
Another important innovation is the possibility of quickly updating the batteries as new technologies arrive on the market. ”Our cars or our solutions – Timo Walden, project manager of e-Revolt and one of the company’s first investors, explained to Euronews Next – are modular. So if, for example, one day there will be a better battery, we won’t need the time that a normal manufacturer needs, two or three years or more, to get this new battery in the car. Because in our cars everything, every component, can be switched to a different component.”
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