After a few requests I thought it might be interesting, if nothing else, to setup a thread to follow the build and ownership of our 110 EV conversion project. There are a couple of other conversions on Landyzone, but these seem to be Freelanders, and hats off to those guys, they are far more...

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Yeah, unfortunately they couldn’t help on this occasion. I’ve potentially found a few just waiting on their initial quotes. Seems a lot of insurers are jittery about Land Rovers (of any kind) due to the large volume of keyless Range Rovers & new Defenders being stolen. 20 odd per day presently.

Thanks, it is something I had heard about when I started looking into the EV conversion. Thankfully (for me) I established the post 2001 element so our '89 110 should be smoother. Trouble now is finding the insurance.

Thanks, and welcome to the forum

Likewise … just not at Newbury - hope you found some bargains!

Agree … and totally agree with those being mad!!! … I’m regards to the change in taxation that is true and spectacularly wrong, but also for post 2001 vehicles. Anything older can have the tax class changed - so if you can do it for older vehicles, why not newer ones.

The latest “FullyCharged” video pops along to see a form near Bristol that is building kits for most cars now, so if they don’t do the Freelander yet, they may soon. The price of the batteries is the main % of the cost presently though.

Maybe it was the review of the Grenadier what did it!!!

I bought last months and was quite surprised at the cost … made sure I read it cover to cover! In all honesty I preferred Land Rover Monthly, but that seems to be hard to come by in print these days … did they go fully digital?

They might. I’ve said I’m more than happy for them to do so. The 110 has been stripped now (as the eagle eyed would spot) with EV installation works imminent. Looking at 100kW with a Tesla Model 3 motor and CCS charging capability.

Thanks My Old Landy, lets be honest, it is expensive & I’ve been saving hard to do this working overseas, but keen to share more of the build & experience over the coming months.

Well this is some seriously impressive EV conversion work chaps! I applaud your handiness & patience! Any idea when your projects will be finished? I’ve taken the slightly lazy approach with my 110, and paid someone to do all of the heavy lifting for me! Fingers crossed the base build should be...

Great, thanks, I'll take a look for those threads

Yeah, the Fossil Fuel industry (like the smoking lobby) has a wide reach through their misinformation campaign. I did a report 25 years ago on electric vehicles and while the technology has moved on the rhetoric has intensified!

Rarely happens :D so I'll take it. I'll be honest, I may have been doing more research than is probably healthy. You may be interested in my 'Belated Hello' post over in the intros section.

Agree. Plenty of examples of Tesla early adopters doing 250k miles ... and even a chap from Germany with over 1million EV miles. He has had two replacement battery packs and eight motors (a bit like that "are you being served sketch" but that is still a lot of charge and discharge cycles for...

There are actually two options for this already; 1- Ultimate Cell; reduces your tailpipe emissions and increases your fuel consumption. My brother-in-law had this fitted to his Series and says it is a noticeable improvement for limited cost. He lives in Lisbon but there might to stockists in...

Welcome. Which part of London. It might help nail down a garage if you give an N-S-E-W direction. I used to live down there and used a decent workshop over in Leytonstone, it was a non Landy but they did decent work.

Maybe just to **** you off it seems? But as you are asking I’ll indulge you, save in the knowledge you may think my view BS. I was struggling to justify owning owning a petrol/diesel vehicle, but I equally don’t want to give up ownership of a classic vehicle for which I have a long...