EV conversions of classic cars are hotter than the UK this past August. It seems many people are drawn to the the style and the steel of an old car; the aesthetic that many egg-shaped crossovers can’t match thanks to pesky safety regulations and aerodynamic targets. But, at least in my city, the shine is wearing off on old powertrains. And I get it! Traffic is getting worse and worse. I have a variety of old cars myself, but there are lots of places and times I don’t want to drive them.
Almost all conversions use Tesla powertrains and batteries. Why? Because people crash a LOT of Teslas, meaning the supply of batteries and motors is plentiful. No argument from me - I may criticize a lot of things about Tesla, but their motors work just fine and their batteries are better off recycled into an old car than in a landfill. As more OEM’s produce mass market EV’s, we can probably expect a variety of options to become available, depending on a patron’s specific needs.
I’m also talking about classic muscle cars, up to and including the aforementioned Scorpion EV with their Shelby Cobras. Muscle cars, with very rare exception, and even the vast majority of Cobras, drive like hot garbage. Objectively, their dynamics are terrible, they handle poorly at the limit, and even those limits are quite low. The pedal spacing is abysmal for heel-toe driving, and they have awful brakes.
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