Electric Rolls Royce Phantom? Classic Cars New Lease Of Life With Lunaz
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Lunaz is electric upcycling for vintage cars. In a bid to make luxury vintage and classic cars more sustainable, Lunaz is giving old Rolls Royces, Jaguars, Bentleys, and Astons Martins electric powerplants and a new lease of life.
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REPORT K. Heidemann, G. Sonnleitner
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EDITING Manu Reuss
REV - The Global Auto and Mobility Show from Deutsche Welle
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What legends!!! You are preserving history in a smart and eco-friendly way. These cars can now run better than they have ever run before.
So one is preserving a vehicle by taking its heart out and replacing it with an artificial heart?
@@lorencooper6043 so you want it die and rot with its "organic heart " rather ro live with need artificial heart ? 🤡
@@lorencooper6043 I mean if we want to still have a planet to call home I would be down bad for classic looking cars with electric engines
@@lorencooper6043 its heart? Chill bro
Nicely done full restoration of a classic BUT, I think the 700,000 Euro's for a price tag would stop a lot of people.
It would stop me...
It is meant for a few people loaded with cash.
You recon ....
not with people with a lot of money
This is like Brabus my guy, not for normal people
Hopefully they sell those engines. It would be a waste to scrap it out.
They will definitely be preserved as display pieces
At a premium.
NOTE: At 2:07 you describe the car in the image as a 1961 Rolls Royce - with twin headlights? THAT didn't happen until 1963 when the Silver Cloud 111 came out. The Cloud 111 was introduced in late 1962 but marketed as a 1963 model. Why? I have no idea but that's how it was. The car in this part of the clip is around a 1966 to 1968 (or there abouts) model Phantom VI. Still, they're all beautiful cars and MANY thanks for sharing. Take care.
Was the handle of the Rolls-Royce vehicle converted into a tower handle at the beginning of the video?
I've started a project to convert a Jaguar Mark 10. Not planning on changing anything besides what was attached to the driveshaft, or was powered by belts off the XK engine. This is the way to preserve and enjoy a special car of this sort.
This is the way
For a little while 😂
Have you seen the CZcams channel Super fast Matt ? he is doing a MK10 with a Tesla motor
Yes quite right. Spend YOUR money in the way that YOU want to spend YOUR money but others have the right to choose how they spend theirs.
Brilliant! If I was loaded, I would buy one.
The Phantom shown @2:07 is of a later generation
This is how you use EV drivetrains properly. Store the original motor and trans and go electric to cruise around quietly
2:04 The Rolls-Royce Phantom V was produced from 1959. The Silver Ghost was not the first Rolls-Royce to ''hit the streets''. The first Rolls-Royce motorcars were the 10hp, the 15hp, the 20hp and the 30hp. The 40/50hp was produced from 1906, but the Silver Ghost was produced in 1907 with the registration number AX201. The Spirit of Ecstasy was produced from 1911. ''Most perfect''? Perfection is an absolute. A coop houses chickens, a cut-back car is called a coupé, because their body designs are cut short. Seven hundred thousand? Come on!
@ Alexander Croyx you’ve not been laid in a while I’d being willing to bet!
Let's see if the upcoming Phantom IV owner would convert it into.....
The black Phantom V at 2:05 is actually John Lennon's P V that he had the psychedelic paint job applied to. It had black bumpers and wheels and John Lennon wanted the grille black but RR refused.
Let’s make no mistake, electric cars are not carbon neutral, but it is absolutely wonderful to see these beautiful cars find life again. They are such a living nightmare, mechanically, and so many have been lost due to the mechanical unsustainability.
Could you elaborate on your comment. I do not understand the ‘not carbon neutral’ and ‘ living nightmare’ and mechanical unsustainability’?
Que bien ... !
Truly fabulous to see and to know they will be here for the cleaner planet, great work !
in the end, its more efficient to leave the car as it is eith the petrol engine. The amount of resources that go in to the car AGAIN with all those components and strippiung it down instead of enjoying it as it is doesnt make it feasable in my opinion from an environmental standpoint.
Ruined a beautiful car.the whole electric thing is just a con
Don't get me wrong, restoring these cars that may have otherwise been codemned is admirable, and some interesting new things can emerge where no one expected. I also understand the advantages of an electric car over an old ice drivetrain. But when you swap out the entire type of drivetrain you lose the core of what the car originally was, flaws and all. This is not to mention the myth that battery electric cars are environmentally sound. To me, doing a swap like this is a really cool way of making a new kind of car that previously didn't exist, essentially a restmod. But this isn't preservation; it's reinvention. To restorers: if you can, please keep these endangered dinosaurs as they were as much as possible.
Happy for you to spend your own money restoring vehicles as you wish but other people should spend their own money in the way that they want to spend it. If vehicles are being rescued from breaker yards and not rusting away to oblivion then the conversion gives them another life regardless of whether it's different to what they had before.
if they change the suspension, brakes and steering it feels nothing like this car should.
It should still steer with the pinkie finger and slush up every bump
The geometry is still the same there's no change on drivability or comfort only the drivetrain
I'm not a fan of Rolls Royce, although the old school Aston Martin's and Jaguars in general are quite easy on the eyes. The trend of converting older cars to electric technology is quite exciting as it would be nice to apply it to a rough. say a series 62 convertible Cadillac, given the workable space. I hope the price of the technology drops to the point that a regular person can order a kit, be it high or low output and create their own custom electric automobile in their own garage, regardless of make or model.
Why would you replace the engine?
@@van0tot100 The OG engine is awesome and has a distinctive rumble one can hear block away, but it would be neat to pull up to a tesla charge station with an automobile that has personality and style. A little heresy never hurt anyone, mind you owning an original correct configuration would be a wonderful thing too.
WOW fantastic
That ugly modern blinker sound... the new stuff ruins the car
Royalty always used to use Daimler, however, real Daimlers died out years ago.
The Royal state cars were Daimler until 1952. The late Queen's private Rolls-Royce Phantom IV was changed to a state car. The late Queen Mother kept Daimlers to the end of her life, although she had a Phantom V Landaulette.
@@michaelmontagu3979 Thanks for that.
@ 6:00 "Lunz is committed to keeping alive the tradition of British Automotive Culture." If that's the case, I ain't buy no British car with terrible rubbish LUCAS wiring! I'm buying Japanese EV Conversion with Yazaka wiring, it will outlast the vehicle 😂
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Unveliable❤
A source for those Rolls-Royce Bentley cars is Rome Georgia in the United States where they're being scrapped because they can't find people qualified to work on them anymore and the repair costs are so exorbitant that cars are loaded up and hauled to the salvage yard in Britain they call them breaker yards. So it looks like they're going to go get crew built cars from the breaker yards put an electric running gear in them and charge the customer a million dollars. Well I bet the price of breaker bits is going to go through the ceiling.
Old money look with modern power.
I hope they're using organic paint and plastic wheels.
actually governments ought to give rebates/tax relief for thos who own vintage/classic vehicles operating on older ICE engines to BEV/PHEVs? this would actually be better as the vehicle is not wasted and only the powertrain is upgraded...
I like this classic car but electric.
700.000€?????
in the end, its more efficient to leave the car as it is eith the petrol engine. The amount of resources that go in to the car AGAIN with all those components and strippiung it down instead of enjoying it as it is doesnt make it feasable in my opinion from an environmental standpoint.
For the max. 2000 miles you do a year in these… just fill it up with e-fuel ffs
Brits are so full of themselves.
The most beautiful cars in the world.
I wander what will the Italians and Americans think of that statement.
Name one US or Italian car that is more beautiful than the Aston DB5 or Jag E-Type, I’ll wait.
@@georgewelsford2587 the DB5 was designed by the Italian coach builder: Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera.
@@georgewelsford2587 Ferrari 275 long nose
It’s not “Jagwar “ it’s pronounced “JAG-YOU-ARE “ .
in the end, its more efficient to leave the car as it is eith the petrol engine. The amount of resources that go in to the car AGAIN with all those components and strippiung it down instead of enjoying it as it is doesnt make it feasable in my opinion from an environmental standpoint.
Not necessarily true
I used to think like you. More radical even. But after driving for some years electric cars, this combination of old quality outside and modern electric motor is a dream
Ruining pasts masterpieces should be forbidden.
Is this a Rolls with Chinese tech?
300 miles range. It's not correct to say kms with a classic British car!
DW is German and we use normal units :)
How by doing this it’s zero carbon?how about manufacturing of the battery
and all the coal or oil being used to charge it that’s not carbon zero is it? I just wish these people would be honest and stop the lie’s
"I mean they are icons, they are the most beautiful vehicles in the world"
Except they are not....you might or might not have seen american cars from the 50s and 60s....you cannot even compare their beauty to this.
It is just your opinion,I disagree
i disagree
American cars are utter dogsh*t
Sad
50s, 60s, 70s American cars are more beautiful that these
all the electric car non sense is waiting for one new volcano to blow and put 50 years of carbon in the atmosphere in 24 hours
At least the future owner won't be bothered by these cars original troublesome engine
These engines were never troublesome. The only issue was when they were sold in the former colonies where no one know how to look after them.
you would have to pay me to get me to take it off your hands. Then I break it for spares.
Sacrilege
What a sacrilege !!! Stop with those awful changes. Let the Rolls as it was.
I will never get electric ⚡️ that’s just crazy 😜
You are a dinosaur Luddite.
Sacrilege! A RR is the engine hence the need BMW ones are NOT RRs. Read the history first. Science can produce synthetic fuel for ice but refuse to because of money for battery's is huge. The world is being conned
RR should be electric the are the perfect brand to do so
Sorry, but that it's definitely not going up, but more like going down. EV-s are DOWNcycling process . Electric cars are dull, boring and lifeless electric cabinets on wheels.
Maufacturing such costly automobiles for the pleasure of a few privileged hedonistic villains is barbaric . Don't flatter yourself , you aren't saving anything.
I hope that one day you get the peace of being able to accept your own station in life without harbouring jealous thoughts of what others have.
in the end, its more efficient to leave the car as it is eith the petrol engine. The amount of resources that go in to the car AGAIN with all those components and strippiung it down instead of enjoying it as it is doesnt make it feasable in my opinion from an environmental standpoint.
It’s a sixty year old car. Enjoining it as it is would involve parking it in a garage and talking it out on a rally once in a while . So another car is going to have to be bought to do actual daily driving. So from an environmental standpoint you have just consumed the entire resources of a second car .