The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs
restofworld.org
Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety.

Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netM
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    6 days ago

    Very surprised at the price claims; in the US, doing a conversion has been expensive enough that it’s rarely done

    • kalkulat@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 days ago

      US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgDeutsch
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      6 days ago

      Which mostly boils down to labor prices. You can build cheap EV conversions if you have free labor and don’t care too much about range and charging speed