{"id":116062,"date":"2020-11-19T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/electric-ferrari-time-to-give-classic-cars-a-new-lease-of-life"},"modified":"2020-11-19T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:24:53","slug":"electric-ferrari-time-to-give-classic-cars-a-new-lease-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/electric-ferrari-time-to-give-classic-cars-a-new-lease-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Electric Ferrari \u2014 time to give classic cars a new lease of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IGjOY4JBmy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From time to time, <em>Fully Charged<\/em> receives an offer that is too good to refuse, and when a long-term friend of the show offered us his <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/ferrari\/\">electrified Ferrari<\/a> 308, we didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While the sheer scale of combustion engine cars that are converted to electric remains to be seen, conceivably, conversions could become an entirely new market. A number of companies are making inroads in this most intriguing of markets, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newelectric.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Electric<\/a> in Ireland and the Netherlands working on open source conversions, and <a href=\"https:\/\/transition-one.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transition One<\/a> in France that convert an array of smaller combustion engine cars. In North America, cool conversion shops like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evwest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EV West<\/a> in California, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momentmotors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moment Motors<\/a> in Texas, are popping up, and in England, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IGjOY4JBmy4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electric Classic Cars<\/a>, who worked on the Ferrari in question, have featured a few times on <em>Fully Charged<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, Fully Charged receives an offer that is too good to refuse, and when a long-term friend of the show offered us his electrified Ferrari 308, we didn\u2019t hesitate. This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek. While the sheer scale of combustion engine cars that are converted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}