Collaborate Disseminate
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 …read more Continue reading Can A $3200 Kit Convert Your Car To Electric Power?
There are few production cars with as much geek cred as the DMC DeLorean. If you want to kick the nerdiness up a notch without doing a full Back to …read more Continue reading A DeLorean with an Electrifying Secret
While there are a lot of exciting electric vehicles finally coming to market, many of us feel nostalgic for the fossil cars of our youth. [Mihir Vardhan] restored his grandfather’s …read more Continue reading A Different Approach to EV Conversions
With electric vehicles such as the Tesla or the Leaf being all the rage and joined by fresh competitors seemingly every week, it seems the world is going crazy for the electric motor over their internal combustion engines. There’s another sector to electric traction that rarely hits the headlines though, …read more
Continue reading An EV Conversion Engineered As A Drop-in Replacement
Last year brought some exciting news from the unlikely quarter of an unexciting industrial estate in the British town of Swindon, the company Swindon Powertrain announced that they’d be marketing an all-in-one electric motor and transmission. Essentially this would be a crate engine for EV conversions, and since it’s pretty …read more
Continue reading Crate EV Motor Hits Market: The Swindon Powertrain
A common project category on this site is “put a Raspberry Pi in it”. For people who wrench on their cars, a similarly popular project is the “LS Swap”. Over the past few years, the world of electronics and automotive hacking started to converge in the form of electric car …read more
Continue reading Model S Motor and Volt Battery Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Watch a formerly gas guzzling Audi S5 run whisper-quiet with a Tesla motor and battery. Continue reading Mechanics are Putting Electric Tesla Motors in Audis and Mazdas