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2020 TOP 10 HIGH TECH CARS – IEEE Spectrum

Vintage-car aficionados love to grouse about the time and money it takes to keep their babies running. Electric GT has a better idea: Skip ahead a century. The California company has developed an ingenious plug-and-play “crate motor” that transplants an electric heart into most any vintage gasoline car. I drove an orange 1982 Fiat 124 Spider that Electric GT converted …

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Embracing Vintage Cars in the Catskills w Electric GT’s Systems

    By Brett Berk July 29, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET The driving season in the Catskills is quite short, abbreviated by snow and salt in the long winters and a spring rainy season that can sometimes feel endless. But now that it’s the heart of summer, and people can mingle again, Jared Lamanna wants to provide …

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Changing the Electric Vehicle Game with Additive Manufacturing – Meet ELECTRIC GT

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS Usually, when visiting any kind of auto shop, we think of loud engines, dirty cars, and the smell of gas. Visiting Brock Winberg and his company Electric GT is anything but, and we are surprised to find a high-end customization facility filled with rare cars which have gone through, or …

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These People Converted Their Cars Into EVs… And They Are Awesome

It’s becoming increasingly popular to convert old classic cars into futuristic electric cars, and the trend does have a lot going for it! Electric vehicles undoubtedly hold the key to the future of automobiles, however, it seems they can unlock the past as well. With automobile restoration becoming increasingly problematic due largely to the difficulty in finding a …

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The Rise Of ‘Restomod’: These Companies Are Bringing Vintage Cars Into The Future

In the chequered history of portmanteaus,“restomod” has to be one of the less successful examples — it’s definitely no “brunch” — but the restored and modified car scene it describes has been going from strength to strength in recent years. The concept is pretty alluring: take a vintage car and all the great things that …

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These Electric ‘Crate Motors’ Will Keep Engine Swaps Alive

Electric cars aren’t yet easy. They’re expensive, their batteries aren’t as energy-dense as we need them to be, and public charging infrastructure is sparse. Once all of that improves, the path to mass EV adoption becomes clearer—but for the moment we’re waiting for the technology to get better. Electric swaps for fossil-fuel cars follow a similar …

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ELECTRIC GT EV CRATE MOTOR

Enthusiasts have long purchased crate motors as an exciting way to boost their car’s performance. Electric GT is now offering a “crate motor” that’s totally electric. Built to pair with manual transmissions, it includes everything needed to convert a car to electric — motors, controllers, chargers, sensors, relays, and computer systems — in a single …

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Electric Crate Motors Allow Anybody to Swap Out a Combustion Engine

There is a growing desire for the electrification of the automotive industry. That move has taken greater intensity since Tesla proved that electric cars can be possible for the masses and not be ugly. But, that interest in electric cars also bleeds through to the supporting industry, such as repair, restoration, and custom shops. They also have customers that …

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