Posted on November 9, 2018, 2:51 pm By Ethan Elkind
To meet long-term climate goals, we’ll need eventual 100% zero-emission vehicle adoption. But it’s not just new vehicle sales that matter. It’s becomingly less expensive to retrofit existing vehicles, including even this 1949 Mercury Coupe, pictured here:
As Autoweek profiled, Jonathan Ward and the Los Angeles-based Icon converted a fuel-injected Coyote V8 into an EV, installing two motors and a Tesla-sourced 85 kWh battery system with up to 200-mile range.
It was carefully done work, as you can see under the hood:
Not everyone will want to do (or afford) retrofits like this one, but it’s a reminder that as the price of batteries decreases and as the scale of shops that can do this work increases, a retrofit option could be come more common.
The planet — and our lungs — will be better off for it.
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