Electric conversions for existing sports car platforms have received a mixed reception from the enthusiast world. Vintage Porsche 911s and Jaguar E-Types without their gas-drinking hearts straight-up ...

This video shows the installation of a bolt-in electric conversion kit on a Porsche 911. I explain how the motor, battery, and control systems integrate into the original chassis with minimal ...

Classic cars are, for now, excluded from the stringent emission regulations that threaten the internal combustion engine’s future. Nevertheless, many iconic car owners want to stay ahead of time and ...

French carmaker Renault has partnered with EV specialist R-Fit to make retrofit kits that turn the vintage Renault 4, Renault 5 (Le Car in the United States), and Twingo into all-electric cars.

Ebenezer Ugorji is a Nigerian writer whose work spans digital journalism, sports reporting, automotive journalism, and fiction. Over more than a decade of professional writing, he has built a ...

How do you turn a classic VW Beetle into a fully electric car? In this video, we take a closer look at an electric conversion kit specifically made for the iconic Volkswagen Beetle. From battery ...

Just looking at the price tag, a new low-cost retrofitting EV kit that costs around $3,100 might not sound cheap. But when you consider that's just a tenth of the cost of most gas-to-electric ...

I don’t think it’s controversial to say that battery tech has a ways to go before it can completely replace internal combustion, especially in trucks. Still, electrification is promising, and it can ...

Whether hardcore petrolheads like it or not, we appear to be living through the final years of the internal combustion engine. In many countries there are legislative timetables in place for their ...

A startup seeks to accelerate the transition to electric trucks by retrofitting existing diesel vehicles with electric drivetrains. How adapting practices from high-volume truck manufacturers to ...