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The U.S. Government seems to be keen on electric vehicles from way before GM built the EV1. Somewhere between 1982 and 1987, it paid $240,000 to have a Dodge B300 prototype powered solely by gel cell batteries. This one-off vehicle is now on Craiglist, waiting for a new owner.
The nature of YouTube channels is always to have something new and exciting to present. When a project ends, another one has to replace it as quickly as possible. Rich Benoit and his team finished ICE-T (Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla) when it was taken to the 2021 SEMA Show. While they still owe us a new episode of how that thing drives, the Rich Rebuilds channel is already dealing with a new conversion: making a Corvette electric.
Whether they are daily drivers, weekend toys, or one-off show cars, more and more classics are receiving battery-electric powertrains. Arguably the most outrageous example is the E935 created by the mad scientists at Bisimoto Engineering.
Alfasuds are famous for being fun to drive and for self-destructing, thanks to rust issues. It was not their fault: Alfa Romeo just wanted to pump as many as possible, making terrible decisions in the process. The fun part led Sean Fosberry to buy one. Stopping self-destruction helped the engineer give it a new life with battery modules and an electric motor.
Electric cars – converted or born like one – need to be affordable. That’s a must to increase their adoption. When Swindon Powertrain said it would sell an electric classic Mini for £79,000 under the name Swind E, it may have inspired London Electric Cars to offer a less expensive version. We’ll probably never know that for sure, but the fact is that you can now have an electric classic Mini for £25,000 – with some catches.