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That looks like a good price, but I'm guessing it doesnt include the battery. The real question is what does the battery cost to power the motor.



No battery, no charger, no DC-DC converter, and the controller/inverter isn't there as well. The latter is probably gonna be more expensive than the motor itself. We're talking about an inverter that can put out 250kW three phase AC. The board components alone are expensive.

I find it odd they didn't include the inverter from the Mach E mounted on the motor, because that's how the Mach E is configured.

A full tear down of this motor (and its inverter) from the Mach E can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVV52lPyIs

Notably this motor is potentially technically inferior to the one that Ford put in the front of the Mach E.

Indeed the motor price is competitive. But most of the competition from EV conversion shops is usually packaged along with a matching controller/inverter, so less hassle and also hard to compare price.

Most people doing a conversion would be better off just buying a salvaged Tesla drive unit -- which includes the inverter and gear reduction and can attach directly to short axles and has been reverse engineered so can be driven by third party software.




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