Specifically ev, and specifically aftermarket modifications. Whether it’s a custom shop offering a package that you could have installed, or a backyard tinkerer coming up with a new trick to make their EV ratrod faster, what do you think will be done in the future that hasn’t been done yet?
I think full dashboard replacement to have physical buttons and switches instead of the giant control screens will be a thing for customers with deep pockets.
Zero? Short of a motor swap or hacking it, you cant change the performance of an EV.
Monster Cables enters the chat…
Well, motor swaps and hacking are definitely modifications.
You mean like hotrodders and tuners have been doing since prohibition?
Hotrodders and tuners have been modifying ICEs for decades. It shouldn’t be controversial at all to say that EV motors are less serviceable or moddable than conventional ICE drivetrains. Even something as simple as a manual transmission swap is literally impossible with an electric motor.
EVs are a great solution to a lot of problems, but let’s not make them out to be something they’re not.
Hot rodders can deck heads, build a new exhaust manifold, slap 4 carbs on one engine, put a turbo or a supercharger on there, put a cam in, pretty much anything and everything. (If you ever get a chance to see the Museum of American Speed in Lincoln Nebraska, you should go.)
Just typing away, hacking it, is boring. And swapping the motor might not get you much with evs, no one is doing it yet for a reason. Its not like putting an LS where an old small block used to go.
I just dont see much hot rodding potential in EVs, and you just dont many people doing much with them. Weve had a decade or more, its just not happening yet and it might not ever.
Besides the other commenter mentioning how cars have been modified forever, computers have been modified forever. People overclock their processor, swap in better ram, hard drives, graphics cards. Use a different operating system. I expect we’ll see the EV equivalent in time.
Beyond everything else, EVs just don’t invoke the same feelings like an ice does. A rumbling V8, a turbo i4 with a TUTUTU, gear shifts, the vibration and the noise.
EVs are appliances that take you from A to B. ICE cars have a soul, one that wants to rev till the valves float and tires burn off.
Don’t invoke the same feelings for you. I can’t relate to thinking my car has a soul or wanting to be loud.
Have you ever put your foot all the down on a highway on-ramp, and have the car keep revving for a split second after you lift? Like it wants to keep going faster, but you’re chaining it?
Yes, we get it. You’re really into powerful v8 cars. I’m not sure why you’re here under this post that is far outside your area of interest, arguing with people who want nothing to do with your area of interest.
I mean, there’s still cosmetic modifications, and some of those might be slightly different (things emphasizing exhaust pipes for instance wouldn’t really work, but maybe you’d see parts that suggest an exaggerated fake battery somewhere, or some clear panels placed to show off the motors or something). But beyond that, couldn’t you still change the performance in some ways, for example by replacing parts with lighter weight parts? For example, since batteries are heavy, maybe someone wanting to increase top speed and acceleration and willing to sacrifice range might replace the battery with a smaller one, or remove some of the cells from the battery somehow?