The Toyota HiAce has been a global icon of commercial transportation since 1967. Renowned for its exceptional durability, legendary reliability, and cavernous interior, the HiAce serves countless roles worldwide—from passenger minibus and cargo delivery van to mobile workshop and family adventure vehicle. Available in multiple body styles (van, minibus, pickup) with various diesel and gasoline engine options, its reputation for longevity and low maintenance costs makes it the backbone of businesses and transport services across continents. Now, you can elevate this workhorse to meet the demands of the 21st century. Our complete Toyota HiAce electric conversion kit provides a high-performance, zero-emission powertrain solution, transforming your trusted van into a quieter, cleaner, and more cost-effective vehicle for years to come.
Before You Begin: Understanding the Conversion Scope
Converting a Toyota HiAce to electric power involves removing the original internal combustion components and installing the new electric system. Here are the key steps and considerations:
Remove the Original Engine: The old diesel or gasoline engine is completely removed from the vehicle.
Adapt the Drivetrain: Our 70kW motor is a direct-drive unit. The original transmission system is removed. The motor connects directly to the vehicle’s original drive axle using a custom-fabricated flange or adapter plate, which then connects to the original rear axle.
3.Replace Engine-Driven Accessories: Components previously driven by the engine—such as the power steering pump, brake vacuum pump, and air conditioning compressor—are replaced with electric versions (included or recommended in our kit).
4.Custom Fabrication for New Parts: Unlike original components with factory mounting points, new electric components often require custom brackets for secure and proper installation within the HiAce’s chassis. Precise measurement and local fabrication of a mounting bracket system are crucial steps for a clean, safe, and professional result.
Parts Included in the Hiace Conversion Kit
- (1).PMSMMotor
- (2)Electric Motor Controller
- (3).DC to DC Converter
- (4).Car Dashboard Display
- (5).Lithium Battery Charger for Electric Vehicles
- (6).12V vacuum pump booster
- (7).LeFePO4battery cell PACK
- (8) Wire harness
This powerful Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) system is specifically engineered for vehicles like the Toyota HiAce, delivering 70 kilowatts (KW) of continuous power with a peak output of 100 KW. The motor is designed to be mounted in the original engine position, connecting to the vehicle’s drivetrain via a custom spline coupler and adapter plate.
Critical System Feature: Liquid Cooling
The motor and its matching controller utilize an integrated liquid cooling system. This is essential for maintaining optimal operating temperatures and preventing power derating or overheating during sustained high-load operation, such as highway driving, climbing grades with a full load, or extended delivery routes.
Selecting the Right Powertrain for Your HiAce:
When planning your conversion, carefully consider your specific needs:
Target Performance: What is your desired top speed and acceleration?
Vehicle Configuration: What is the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of your HiAce? How will it be loaded (passengers vs. cargo)?
Typical Duty Cycle: Will the vehicle be used for long highway trips, stop-and-go city deliveries, or a mix?
Drivetrain Layout: The HiAce features a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (RWD) layout, which this kit is designed to accommodate.
This 70KW/100KW system provides the robust power and torque required to maintain the HiAce’s renowned workhorse capabilities in a clean, electric format.
This high-efficiency, intelligent charger is designed for the demands of a commercial vehicle:
Fast and Efficient Charging: With a substantial 6.6 kilowatt (kW) output, it enables significantly faster charging cycles compared to standard lower-power chargers. This minimizes downtime and allows for convenient overnight or between-shift replenishment.
Intelligent and Safe Design: Incorporates advanced LLC resonance technology, active Power Factor Correction (PFC ≥0.99) for grid efficiency, and full microprocessor control. It features a comprehensive suite of protections against over-voltage, short circuits, over-temperature, and reverse polarity. It is designed to IP66 standards for dust and water resistance and is CE certified for international safety.
Battery Longevity: Its intelligent multi-stage charging algorithm precisely controls the charging process, preventing overcharging and optimizing battery health, which extends the overall service life of the high-capacity LiFePO4 battery pack.
Key Specifications: Wide universal input voltage (85-265 Volts AC), high conversion efficiency (≥93%), low audible noise (<40dB), and robust, compact construction suitable for on-board installation.
In the original diesel or gasoline HiAce, the power brake booster relies on engine vacuum. After the engine is removed during conversion, this vacuum source is lost. This 12V electric vacuum pump is an essential safety component, providing a consistent and reliable vacuum supply to the brake booster. It ensures that your power brakes retain their familiar, effective feel and full stopping power, and it is fully compatible with the vehicle’s original brake pipes and calipers.
This is the high-capacity, rugged energy storage core of your electric HiAce, purpose-built for the demands of commercial use.
Power and Performance: With a substantial 35.6 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy capacity, this pack is designed to provide the range needed for daily delivery routes, passenger transport, or shuttle services.
Smooth and Silent Operation: Lithium battery power, delivered through the electric motor, provides an exceptionally quiet and smooth driving experience. It eliminates the vibration and noise associated with the original diesel or gasoline engine, making the cabin more comfortable for both driver and passengers.
Superior Safety and Longevity: The pack is constructed using premium EVE-brand LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate) cells, recognized globally for their exceptional thermal stability, intrinsic safety, and very long cycle life (thousands of charge/discharge cycles). It includes a sophisticated automotive-grade Battery Management System (BMS) with CAN BUS communication. The BMS continuously monitors and protects each cell, ensuring optimal performance, balancing, and safety throughout the pack’s long life.
Robust Packaging: The dual-enclosure design aids in installation flexibility and thermal management within the vehicle’s chassis.
Successful Conversion Cases We've Delivered for Our Clients：
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Questions About Toyota Hiace
Yes, we provide all electronic parts for conversion. We also provide wire diagram system, each part user manual, so you will have no obstacles for installation and connection of the system.
Yes, we provide motor spline coupler and adapter plate to install motor to original transmisison. But the original transmission’s clutch need to get removed. If you want to keep clutch, you need modify the spline coupler to clutch a bit. Because we do not have car in hand, so we bought a old transmission without clutch to make the coupler and adapter kit.
We provide two years for battery, and one year warranty for other parts. We only use top grade quality products. If any parts failure from manufacturing issues, we provide repair parts for replacement.
If we have stocks ready to go, the lead time is one weeek after order confirmed. if we have no stocks, lead time might be 4 weeks after order confirmed.
After you have discussed with sales manager all details of the order, he or she will make proforma invoice with all details and bank accounts for payment, normally payment is through bank to bank T/T. Other payment ways are also flexible to accept after discussion.
We only use top brand of cells in China, like EVE, like Gotion etc, most of the case we use EVE brand pure new and A grade cells to make pack. And in our battery pack we surely use real automobile grade BMS, not simple protection board.
We care about reputation more than our customers!
We are real manufacturer, not sales trade office/company, we started our motor production from 1995 in China. In conversion we now have more than 10 year experiencee. In the whole drive systems, we do not produce all parts, but motor we make, controller we provide CAN BUS and technical requests to our partner, same as lithium battery pack and wire hanress of the system, the design and CAN BUS are from us. other accessories like gas peda, meter etc we get from reliable partners.
Except motor and drive train solution, we also owns our own low speed electric vehicle assembly factory, its website/brand is www.gmtlsv.com
In short, we are EV expert with decades experience in China!
Yes, our key electronic components are with CE certificate for Europe markets, so at the moment, we ship to Europe like France, UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Turkey etc.
We also have ISO9001 quality manage certificate.
For our EV products, we also have WMI （World Manufacturer Identifier） certificate, each vehilce has its VIN number.
To some particular countries, they have requests in import or tax reduces policy such as for Africa countries and Middle East, COC or SABER might needed for import. For some countries, certificate of origin: FORM A, FORM E etc are requested. We all have experience to make for customers.
Yes, of course, our engineers who can speak English directly, video talk/email/Whatsapp they can communicate and serve customers without obstacles.
No matter before-sales or after sales, we all request in time response 24 hours and 7 days as long as we see the requests.
For necessary project, we can also send engineers to customers’ company for guide or training.
We also welcome customers to send engineers to us for onsite learning and training!
Yes, no problem, we support that. We hope customers can do longterm business so customization of his logo is OK
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Before installing the new electric system, it is necessary to determine the parts that need to be removed, as follows:
- The old diesel engine
- The 70kw motor is a direct drive motor and the old transmission system need to be removed, connecting the motor with original drive axle by a flange or adapter, then drive axle to the original rear axle.
3. The power steering, brake pump, and air conditioning compressor driven by the fuel engine
4. On the other hand, when installing new electronic components, the first thing to consider is how to fix these parts. Unlike the original parts that have mounting interfaces matching the original vehicle chassis, new parts often require new brackets for support and fixing. So, after fully measuring the size (he had to calculate the size needed after all the accessories were installed, so that the subsequent stacking of parts would not be insufficient), Zool custom-made a parts bracket locally to support the installation of the new assembly.
