Electric Conversion
This is only ideas if I ever planned to convert the truck to electric. The premise with an electric vehicle is to get your electrical load as low as possibly to extend the life of the battery per charge. Switching all lights will be a must. The idea here is to not use a direct drive but to replace the gasoline engine with an electrical motor.
Transmission
The selection for a 2-speed powerglide transmission is because the Tesla Model S comes with a 2-speed transmission. They switched to the 2-speed after destroying too many transmissions. The hydraulic pump will be used to circulate the transmission fluid since the torque converter will be removed.
- Short aluminum power glide 2-speed without torque converter
- Electric hydraulic pump
- Shift linkage
- External fluid cooler
Steering
- Power steering
- Electric power steering pump
- Steering gear box
- Steering shaft U-joint conversion
- Braid steel lines
Front Suspension
Phase 1: Stock suspension
Rear Suspension
At he beginning the rear suspension can stay the same but eventually will need to convert to a 4-link suspension to make the electric drive more efficient.
4-link suspension
Rear axle
The rear axle can stay the same for now. At some point the gears will need to be changed to make the electric motor more efficient.
Batteries
Computer
Gauges
- Battery pack voltage
- 12v battery voltage
- Transmission temp
- Water temp gauge
- Speedometer with GPS speed
- Gear Indicator
- High beam indicator
- Odometer
- Turn signal indicator
Dakota Digital Gauges or Intellitronix
Battery pack temp sensor (Optional)
Lighting
- LED Low Beams
- LED High Beams
- Interior lights
- Stock turn signal, brake, rear cargo lights with LED bulbs
Brakes
- Rear disc conversion
- Stock e-brake
- Upgrade master cylinder
- Brake booster
- Electric booster from 2018+ Honda Accord Bosch iBooster
- Hydraulic booster ran by steering pump
Interior
Wheels & Tires
Cooling
- Aluminum 4-core dual electric fan radiator without trans cooling
- Electric water pump
- Overflow tank
HVAC
- Electric heat pump
- Condenser
- Evaporator
- Switching valve
- HVAC controls
- Capacitor
Exterior
- Windshield wipers
- Windshield wiper pump
- Windshield wiper motor