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Posted by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'(electrek.co)
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wishinghand 16 hours ago|
I’d love to do something similar to an El Camino. I don’t even need triple digit range; I’d use it as a local runabout, mostly to my art studio.
entropicdrifter 16 hours ago|
A lot of people use Leaf batteries/powertrains for this type of conversion. Probably would be cheaper than using Tesla parts if you don't need as much range.
wishinghand 7 hours ago||
If I ever find myself with the money to do this, that was exactly what I was thinking.
beedeebeedee 16 hours ago||
Neat. I would have preferred the original interior over Tesla's, but I guess it would then just be an electric conversion and not a "Tesla" conversion with "FSD".
jazzyjackson 16 hours ago||
Whatever happened to the electric delorean reboot?

EDIT: at one point whoever owned the name also owned a warehouse of spare parts and was going to produce an electric retrofit kit for the old vehicle, and hinting at manufacturing new ones a la retromod. Whoever owns the name now just has concept rendering on their site and a Solana token, so, little more than a meme coin now :(

anotherhue 16 hours ago||
Carson did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCvUGx6OkE&list=PLYIgpKT34L...
technothrasher 11 hours ago||
I believe Stephen Wynne, the man you're referring to, still owns the new DMC company, and he did even produced a concept car of his Alpha5 model. But since 2022, there hasn't been much activity. His classic DMC parts sales side of the business is still active though.
loeg 15 hours ago||
> It’s likely the first non-Tesla vehicle to run FSD, and it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3.

This claim is implausible, right? The Mustang is unambiguously less aerodynamic than the Model 3; there's no way it is achieving similar efficiency, especially at highway speeds.

volkl48 13 hours ago||
The Mustang is from before modern safety laws (and feature expectations) and therefore weighed a lot less than your average modern car.

A stock '66 Mustang hardtop had a curb weight below 3000lb, in the lightest configuration close to 2500lb.

Less mass to move will do a lot for efficiency just like aerodynamics will.

Of course, you will also die or be horrifically maimed in an accident in a 1966 Mustang that you might walk away without any serious injuries from in a modern vehicle.

loeg 10 hours ago||
But this conversion is basically just a Tesla model 3 with the shell taken off and a mustang shell installed over. It's mostly a model 3, including the heavy battery and drivetrain. And airbags.
KaiserPro 11 hours ago|||
Yes it is implausible. But I imagine that they are probably not running it at 70 mph everywhere, just pootling about in suburbia
aliljet 6 hours ago||
This is so cool. I would love to revitalize a generation of great, but perhaps boring older cars with FSD. Just so much work...
theklub 7 hours ago||
So where is the startup to convert any car to electric?
LurkandComment 16 hours ago||
I've been waiting for someone to do something like this as long as I've known electric cars to be a thing. I hope they just start making them like this.
loeg 15 hours ago|
People have been doing Tesla powertrain swapped vehicles for a long time. Here's a Jaguar from 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxaHYlCuN8
xbar 8 hours ago||
That is the safest 1966 Mustang on the road.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 6 hours ago|
Yeah, kinda boring in that respect.
hiroto_lemon 7 hours ago|
I hope they implement this in other car models as well, and make autonomous driving possible in Japan too.
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