Because it would be cool. There’s not much functional reason. But having a gears and a clutch will also go a long way towards preventing people from stealing your car, and it’s 100% effective on preventing people from asking to borrow it. For maximum japes you could possibly rig your motor controller’s firmware such that it can simulate stalling, too.
From a semi-practical standpoint there may be something to be said for parking any old electric motor you can find in what used to be the engine bay and just hooking it up to the input shaft on the transmission so you can keep all of your existing differentials and axles and so forth, which may be handy on converting a (possibly compact) vehicle that won’t have a ready made aftermarket conversion and without having to spend ages faffing around trying to kit-bash new axle mounts into it or find and weld new places to hang motors behind the wheels or between the axles.
Because it would be cool. There’s not much functional reason. But having a gears and a clutch will also go a long way towards preventing people from stealing your car, and it’s 100% effective on preventing people from asking to borrow it. For maximum japes you could possibly rig your motor controller’s firmware such that it can simulate stalling, too.
From a semi-practical standpoint there may be something to be said for parking any old electric motor you can find in what used to be the engine bay and just hooking it up to the input shaft on the transmission so you can keep all of your existing differentials and axles and so forth, which may be handy on converting a (possibly compact) vehicle that won’t have a ready made aftermarket conversion and without having to spend ages faffing around trying to kit-bash new axle mounts into it or find and weld new places to hang motors behind the wheels or between the axles.