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A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs (restofworld.org)
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Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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