EV conversion is a cottage industry that's emerged over the past five years, and been turbo-charged by advances in battery technology and electric motors in the past two.
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You can save your prized Aston Martin DB6, Porsche 911 or Mustang from the museum of combustion engine history. Or your Fiat 500 and Renault Clio, for that matter. That is the message from a growing cohort of European and US start-ups seeking to carve out roles in the auto transition by converting the roaring dinosaurs of the fossil-fuel age into clean electric vehicles (EVs).
At the high end, companies like Britain’s Lunaz Group sell a “remanufactured” Aston Martin DB6 for ￡1 million (US$1.32 million), or Dutch firm Voitures Extravert, which sells a re-engineered 1960s Porsche 911 for 300,000 euros (US$339,435).
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EV conversion is a cottage industry that's emerged over the past five years, and been turbo-charged by advances in battery technology and electric motors in the past two.