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134: Performance EVs — Do They Have a Future?


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The performance EV landscape is changing rapidly, and public opinion on electric vehicles also seems to be on the move. How much faster can they go? What are their limitations? Are they even still relevant?

A lot has changed since we first had this week’s guest, Sasha Anis of Mountain Pass Performance, on the podcast back in 2022. This conversation gets us right up to date on where the industry sits now and what it’s going to look like in the very near future.

Use ‘ONPOINT50’ to get $50 off HPA’s EV Fundamentals Course: https://hpcdmy.co/evb

Sasha has a foot in both the EV and ICE worlds, driving an extremely quick hybrid 350Z race car as well as owning and operating both Mountain Pass Performance and On Point Dyno, so he’s the perfect person to get down into the weeds on the latest automotive tech without much of a bias one way or the other.

In this conversation, we jump straight into just how much things have changed since Sasha was on the podcast only a couple of years ago, discussing the good and the bad consequences of this rapid evolution. We also talk about where it’s all heading next. Is hybrid the way forward? And what about hydrogen? And how much better can EVs actually get?

The chat then turns towards the technical side as Sasha talks us through the basics of an EV system, covering all the major components and their purposes.

We also discuss why it’s so hard to extract extra power out of an EV system and how an amateur enthusiast should go about carrying out an EV swap if they want to actually get a good result.

Follow Sasha here:
IG: @mountainpassperformance
FB: Mountain Pass Performance
YT: Mountain Pass Performance
WWW: https://www.mountainpassperformance.com, https://www.onpointdyno.com

Don’t forget, you can use ‘ONPOINT50’ to get $50 off HPA’s EV Fundamentals Course: https://hpcdmy.co/evb

Timestamps:

0:00 Performance EVs — Do They Have a Future?
4:06 Who are you and where are you from?
5:26 Hybrid 350z
8:15 What has been the advances in electric vehicles in the last 2 years?
16:04 How do you see the resale value of older EV models being affected as tech improves rapidly?
22:24 Pros and cons Hybrid vs Full EV?
26:44 What are your thoughts on alternative fuels for internal combustion engines?
31:40 Where are the limitations of EV performance?
36:46 HPA EV course overview
41:47 Why can’t I make more power? And why does it overheat?
53:59 How to maintain battery life?
56:05 Motors and inverters: how do they work?
1:00:20 What does the BMS do?
1:02:52 How concerned should we be about EVs catching on fire?
1:08:13 Final elements that the HPA EV course covers
1:08:56 What’s involved in an EV swap?
1:22:44 Traction control in an EV vehicle?
1:26:42 Can the average home enthusiast perform an EV conversion?
1:31:00 Final 3 questions


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