Autocar have this story today. It is disguised as a article about whether or not it is right to take the beating heart (or internal combustion engine) out of a classic car and replace it with an electric motor. It seems to be more of an advert for Kit Lacey's eDub Services who do just that.
As do Jack's Garage in the shadow of Grenfell Tower who Autocar told us about in December 2019.
Although eDub will let you rent one of theirs for a week:
The Jack's Garage story was just after Autocar told us that "EV conversions slammed by classic car experts"
But, then again, Michael Gove had already told us that we'd had enough of experts. He then went on to tell us to listen to the experts on Coronavirus.
Anyway, these particular experts are The Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) who issued a statement, stating that it
“cannot promote, to owners or regulators, the use of modern EV components to replace a historic vehicle’s drivetrain”.
eDub are offering to box up the original engine so that it can be re-installed if it is so desired.
I'd have thought that this way, more classics would end up on the road - and in a more eco-friendly way. Nobody is going to do this with all of the existing classics so the more the merrier. And more must be getting merrier as more and more operations set up to do this exact job.
Over in Wales (or over on Quest) is another example - Richard "Moggy" Morgan of Electric Classic Cars in Newtown is shown on Quest and the series returns this Thursday:
Not sure of their scheduling, they seemed to show half of the series then stop it.
But now it's back.
Well, they are plugging it. (plug! geddit!?)
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