Charged up VW Beetle outpaces original
The Super Beetle has a spare wheel tucked underneath the floor of the bonnet.
The speedometer is still in miles.
The lithium ion batteries were replaced in 2016.
Warkworth’s Nick van Hoppe has a bright orange classic 1971 Volkswagen 1302 Super Beetle with a secret underneath the bonnet.
Nicknamed “Voltsy”, it is fully electric, with 45 lithium ion batteries hooked up in a series, requiring five hours for a full charge.
The car was converted by an engineer in Nelson who sold it to Nick. It cost $15,000 for the body and $30,000 to convert.
It’s much faster than the gas-guzzling original car, easily holding 100 km/h on the motorway.
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Great Wall Motors Is Going To Make An EV Beetle Before Volkswagen Does
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China’s motor industry has had few hang-ups about designing cars that look a hell of a lot like someone else’s cars. While the industry has moved away from that a lot, and has been developing its own distinctive design languages for years, you still sometimes see some comically derivative designs pop up. In this case, it’s one of the most iconic, well-known designs in all of motoring: the Volkswagen Beetle. Great Wall seems to have decided not to wait for VW it’ll just go ahead and build an EV Beetle of its own.
Author of the article: Mary Caton
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Do You Know This VW Super Beetle On The Top Of The World?
I had just crossed the border into Canada, having left the outpost of Chicken, Alaska, in the morning, with Dawson City ahead of me. I was on what’s called the Top of the World Highway, part of the most remote drive I had ever taken. And there was a VW Super Beetle passing me by.
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The border crossing was a stressful one on my end. I was a shuttle driver for a friend of mine. He was flying out of Fairbanks with a bunch of his buddies to raft down the Firth, a remarkably old river that predates the Ice Age. The whole crew was going to be dumped out into the Beaufort Sea, then motor over to nearby Herschel Island. And from there a couple of planes would fly everyone and their gear to the far northern town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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