okay so this question we actually get a
lot of people on that video of our Audi
swap the Tesla swapped about,
how much it costs to do that and people
who want that guy to do that build
for them. first of all it's two guys
separate but they work together on that
project was a shop who specialized in
his Volkswagen Audi kind of ironically
not not at all related to us but and
then the guy who did this swap itself. he
I believe does conversions in some way
and a lot of stuff he does with is
around integration of electric stuff
into cars. but in terms of a cost to do a
an electric swap or an EVs swap
specifically a Model S set up into any
car is going to be significant expensive
so there's a company who we actually
looked at their Porsche when we were out
at SEMA and they did an electric porshue so that was beautifully well done
they sell a lot of ev swaps they're
known for that they have a lot of
air-cooled Volkswagen stuff that they do
that are like turnkey kits
that's not Model S stuff because those
cars aren't gonna they would be insanely
fast if you did a Model S swap into a
air-cooled Beetle they offer of huge
range in options but if you wanted to do
something like a Model S drivetrain they
actually have a kit with the drivetrain
that's kind of a universal kit that you
have to then fabricate to make it work
with your car that kit by itself is
twelve thousand dollars now aside from
that kid that does not include batteries
now if you wanted the same number of
batteries that you would find in a Model
S which is 16 battery modules that are
all gonna be wired in series you're
gonna be looking at, they sell them
for sixteen hundred each new that's
going to be about 25 grand so just for
those two components if you're buying
them new at retail you're looking at 37
thousand dollars you can go buy a Model
S used off of a lot somewhere for that
amount of money so most people are going
to be doing it and going to be buying a
crashed one for I don't know probably 10
to 20 thousand dollars now depending on
you know they're going to be buying one
that has some age and some mileage on it.if you bought a brand-new one it
probably would get upwards of probably
about 40 30 to $40,000 for a crashed one
to then strip all the parts and swap it
over that doesn't even touch the
fabrication time that you would require
or integration to make that stuff talk
the vehicle the sam the guy who built
that car it did an amazing job of
integrating all of the modules to talk
with the electric drivetrain components
which is not something that you're going
to find in most EV swaps. most Ev
swaps are gonna be done on old cars that
are going to be brought up with new
electric stuff because it's easier to
wire up a car that doesn't have any
bells and whistles to it no integration
into control modules and window control
modules and all kinds of different body
control modules and lighting all that
stuff to make the functionality work
including ABS transmission all that
stuff so because of that there's going
to be a huge amount of cost as far as
customization I have no idea how much
time that stuff took but they had custom
drivetrain components machined for that
and they had to do multiple times which
required engineering testing and all
that stuff to get all that stuff to even
work because he was using the original
Quattro drivetrain from the car and not
just using a Tesla motor with axles
attached to it and and done that way so
really if you're paying somebody to do a
swap like that if you're just coming out
of your pocket to pay somebody to do a
EV swap for you I would expect it to be
minimum for not even a Model S setup I
would expect a cheap setup that's not
fast or that interesting to be probably
20 grand probably and upwards of
probably six figures depend on what you
were looking to do
