A small but expanding group of tinkerers, racers, engineers and entrepreneurs across the country are converting vintage cars and trucks into greener electric vehicles, in part due to recent ...

Electric powertrain conversions are becoming more mainstream as battery technology advances and the world turns toward cleaner energy to combat climate change.

That’s because the car being loving worked on by student organization RE Electric isn’t a beaten up high-mileage car, pickup truck or European hatchback. It’s a 1939 Pontiac Silver Streak ...

So it's not surprising to him that a small percentage of people converting classic cars to EVs are interested in improving performance.

Erickson is among a small but expanding group of tinkerers, racers, engineers and entrepreneurs across the country who are converting vintage cars and trucks into greener, and often much faster ...

Jonathan Klinger, vice president of car culture for Hagerty, an insurance company and automotive lifestyle brand that specializes in collector vehicles, said converting classic cars into EVs is ...

He then embarked on a year-and-a-half-long project to convert the car into a 636-horsepower electric vehicle, using battery packs, a motor and the entire rear subframe from a crashed Tesla Model S.