By AMY SHORTELL | aherzog@mcall.com | The Morning Call -Retrofitted Car Unveiled at Bethlehem Area VoTech School PUBLISHED: September 20, 2023 at 4:12 p.m. | UPDATED: September 20, 2023 at 4:53 p.m. People look at an EV retrofitted 1970 Fiat 124 Spider in a garage Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, after it was converted to an electric power system by Northampton […]
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Horse of a Different Color: One of the companies trying to break into the EV-conversion business is one you’ve heard of: TREMEC. We first saw the manual transmission manufacturer’s electrified 2004 Mustang GT at the 2023 SEMA show in Las Vegas last November. Unlike some other companies racing to reach the starting line, TREMEC got
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TREMEC WIXOM, Mich., Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TREMEC, a subsidiary of KUO, today announced the acquisition of an innovative provider of plug-and-play EV conversion systems, Electric GT, Inc. The acquisition will enable TREMEC to strengthen its product offerings in the rapidly growing ICE-to-BEV vehicle conversion market. The newly branded company, TREMEC – Electric GT, will be based out of Electric GT’s headquarters in Huntington Beach,
Per Article by Stacey Philips June 20, 2023 for Wards Auto HERE Electric GT, based in California, designs and manufactures turnkey crate EV systems for customers. Eric Hutchison, Electric GT’s managing director, says the team has noticed an increased interest in electric conversions, especially for older vehicles with underpowered motors. The company offers two flagship systems:
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., October 24, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Electric GT, LLC , known for its modular turnkey EV Crate Motor Swap Systems, will have a dominating EV aftermarket presence at SEMA 2022 with a strong showing of its eGT-413 V8 EV Crate Motor Swap System and the eGT-913 Porsche 911 specific EV conversion system. EGT-equipped Classic Sports Cars, SUVs and
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California has had programs aimed at getting owners into EVs for years, including the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program and the Clean Cars for All Program. The catch was that these programs were only for new vehicles and never for conversions. With Assembly Bill 2350, the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project, owners of internal combustion engine (ICE) powered vehicles
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Modified restomod EVs were all the rage at SEMA 2021. Here are the best… Electric GT’s offering here isn’t a single car. Nope, the company claims to make Tesla-motor packages that can convert any 911, 912 or 964 into an EV. Full article…
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Each generation manifests a vision of the automobile’s future. Consider, from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), the streamlined aerodynamics of the Rumpler Tropfenwagen, a mid-rear-engine car that acted as progenitor to the Tatra, the VW Beetle, and even the 911. Or the touchscreen-activated, search-engine-enabled cabs of The Fifth Element (1997) that presaged today’s tablet-forward infotainment systems.
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A number of very special cars were showcased to the world at last week’s SEMA Show and these included a particularly electrifying (or is that Tesla-fying?) 964-generation Porsche 911. The restomod 911 in question comes from a company dubbed Electric GT and features an eGT913 powertrain that also fits Porsche 912 models. This system consists
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Electric GT is responsible for producing a wealth of EV conversion kits, powering everything from a Ferrari 308 to a Volkswagen bus. On show at SEMA was the company’s latest eGT 913 system, designed especially for rear-engined Porsche models such as the 911 and 912. Priced from $55,000, it is meant as a fully plug-and-play
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