"YouTuber Chris Doel, who moonlights as a software and electronics engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, has demonstrated that batteries from 500 disposable vapes can actually power one of the UK's most famous electric vehicles. For this project, he built a 50-volt, 500-vape battery stack that's able to power his house and selected the Reva G-Wiz as the perfect candidate for trial."
"The Reva G-Wiz may be one of the worst vehicles ever made, but it's a perfect candidate for trial by 500-vape battery. Because it comes from an era when EVs didn't really have much in the way of computerized safety features, it was easy for Doel to replace the old-fashioned commercially made lead acid batteries with his homemade vape stack."
"In both the vapemobile video and his previous story about the 500-vape stack being used to power his home, Doel has come out publicly against the scourge of disposable nicotine vaporizers and the mountains of trash they've created. The UK banned disposable vapes in 2025 to stop nicotine use in children and reduce piles of recyclable garbage."
Chris Doel, a software and electronics engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, built a 50-volt battery stack from 500 disposable vapes and used it to power a Reva G-Wiz, an early 2000s micro electric vehicle. The G-Wiz was an ideal candidate for this experiment due to its small size, low power requirements, and lack of computerized safety features that would have complicated battery replacement. The original G-Wiz used a 48-volt lead acid battery pack, making it compatible with Doel's homemade vape battery stack. Through engineering modifications, Doel successfully created a functioning vehicle powered entirely by recycled vape batteries, highlighting the potential for upcycling electronic waste and addressing the environmental problem of disposable vape disposal.
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