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In automobile engineering, electric vehicle conversion is the replacement of a car's combustion engine and connected components with an electric motor and batteries, to create a battery electric vehicle (BEV). There are two main aims for converting an internal combustion engine vehicle (aka combustion vehicle) to run as a battery-electric vehicle.
Historically, these have used aircraft starter motors and lead-acid batteries; several books have been written to document and guide these conversions, [12] including The Complete Book of Electric Vehicles (Shacket, 1979), [13] How to Convert to an Electric Car (Lucas & Riess, 1980), [14] Convert It (Brown & Prange, 1993), [15] and Build Your ...
The chassis for the e-Beetle is marketed at a retail price of €39900 alone, or €99900 for a complete converted vehicle that is ready to drive. The upgraded battery and motor are also available for an extra €15900. [3] eClassics intend for the technology in the battery-electric conversion to be applied to other classic Volkswagen products.
Look no further than the Monterey-Pebble Beach Car Week in August, where total classic car sales reached $469 million, Yahoo Finance reported — a gain of more than one-third from the previous year.
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LincVolt is a 1959 Lincoln Continental, owned by musician Neil Young, that was converted into a more fuel-efficient, hybrid demonstrator vehicle. LincVolt participated in the Xprize Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize .
The later Comuta-Car, produced by Commuter Vehicles, Inc., retained all of the Transitional CitiCar changes including the larger 6 HP motor and drive train arrangement, but moved the batteries from under the seat to battery boxes behind the bumpers, making the vehicle about 16 inches (410 mm) longer than the 8-foot (2.4 m) long CitiCar.