this birds bird right there so I've been asked to go to their Rome formulary race
and they said : why don't you bring one of your vehicles but I thought to myself I haven't really
got any electric vehicles to take over than the mr. bean share now that's hardly a picture of
performance is it informally you've asked me to do something you know the world's first fully
electric racing series they're pushing electric motors and battery technology to the limits so
if they can make motor sport electric what can I make electric that used to have a motor in it
so here we have my drift right this thing is absolutely perfect now we couldn't look at
this and say that this is the Formula one version it has an engine now longer basically do is copy
this exactly the design because it is perfect it's not improvable at all and rather than a
petrol engine we're gonna wrap this components check been to the tip got loaded bmxs because
we need the front of a BMX we've essentially now got the rear axle off a go-kart and then we've got
our motor now I'm not sure this is going to be the right motor this is like a really big drone motor
but the race is this weekend and I already add this so we're going to use it batteries
esc chain sprockets cable throttle control thing all the bits for the rear axle measure
the other one make the frame and all the whales moomoobus basically just building noise I choose
right that's got everything we need from the BMX basically all we need
is the downtube the forks the handlebars and the stem next thing we need to do it's
just make the little boxy bit which comes off here so I shall measure the other one
and then shove the back accident then well I mean he nearly there
latch the axle together temporary thanks I can put this on the air now beautiful that's
really good you see cliff you ever want to get the axle off afterwards
it just comes out the back well we think advise then we get this Oh women it why
thank God the front wailing away now you can go I just need you to stay there now
oh boy can't be clamp hmm oh look at it oh yeah I'll do live a drift trike
right let's got the chassis all done now I've not fixed the seat there and I'll sit on top
there when it does because I'm kind of thinking it's kind of a formula Rey and this does not look
like the cutting-edge of Technology doesn't it no so I want to get something a little bit different
motor Mountain that's next that's gonna sit down you can go in there we've got a bit of adjustment
on the old sprocket that's gonna sit on the back there like that broke it on there sprocket
on there Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing and then get the SA and mount that round the
back get the axle trim down as well because that's all too long at the moment put some spacers in yes
right it's got the electric motor mounted we've got the ESC mounted happy with that
chain sprocket rear axle old looking good next thing we need we need some batteries
we could shove them along here I'd quite like to leave this free just make it look
a bit more streamline if I put them over here somewhere try and work out a nice neat way that
they can go under there maybe I'll put a little cowl in front of it so it all looks nice and a
and futuristic and then it'll all get too upset for it to itself and be right underneath me boom
but mechanically it's kind of new finished just waiting for components now got a couple of things
to do on the electronics I got some a wonderful seat of order so I'm going to strip the paint
just do a couple of other little jobs and then when they turn up with Wacom on see if it works
this seat is arrived what a booty it's a damn sight better than the old track to see for manere
I hope you approve is it lightweight and made of carbon fiber no so maybe they won't call it
ok I've rigged it up to the RC so we can spin the motor up and see how much power it's got
well it's a very good chain making that horrible noise that is bad I don't think this is the right
motor you ain't got any talk think I better do a bit of Internet in oh okay this didn't work
spins really fast not got enough talk we could alter the gearing but it won't even move the
thing without me sitting on it so just a couple of sprocket changes it's not gonna solve that
problem so scout the internet and an eight-hour long journey I've got this this is a Lynch motor
and apparently this has the same power as a mini hmm well it's definitely powerful enough we may
have other problems because obviously this is a bit bigger so I've got a fixed in somewhere
but also this was the ESC that controls the verse one and this is the AC that controls that one so
we're going to put this somewhere the connections look like they could feed the National Grid which
leads me to think are my batteries gonna be up to this now you can program this panel and you can
restrict how many amps go into the motor restrict all sorts of things so it's quite you know you
can play around with it quite a bit so hopefully we will be able to tune it to what we've got now
ever then it will be powerful enough I don't know right so it says you've got to remount all this
I'm not gonna film that quite as well as I did before because I'm got time cuz I'm running out
right here we go is this gonna work okay plug the batteries in switch you
on got a green light so in theory is it can actually move when it's on the floor let's
whack a seat oh well it'll go outside yeah well I do apologize for a quite a
lot of this video being how to make it the wrong way but you know you like to
see my own learning experience you got see the trial and error of these things going
ah that's better now of course there are still lots of questions with this how long
are the battery's gonna last how fast will it go will it be quicker than the petrol version
now luckily we've got the advantage we can plug the laptop in it and we can change all sorts of
little parameters and have a little fiddle around probably very much like a formulary
car remember that's what we're doing this for now you can go check out their channel
you can see all the races live on YouTube you can see all the races have happened on YouTube
it's all there go and have a look subscribe is great racing it's really close and very
unpredictable as well so don't don't miss the next video to shoot wanna see the spin
action I want to see an action and I've got to get it to Rome how am I gonna put on a plane