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Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
These Are The Vintage Cars You Want To EV Swap
Earlier this week I had the chance to drive Everrati's EV-swapped Porsche 911, and it got me daydreaming about other vintage cars that would be excellent candidates for electric powertrains. That led me to my question from earlier this week: What classic model do you want to EV swap? Your answers ranged from land barges to sports cars and everything in between. To be honest, I think that nearly any answer you could have given is valid. There are so many awesome older cars that are saddled with bad powertrains, or ones that are hard to maintain in the modern era. An EV swap can make an old car much easier to live with, extending their lifespans, and isn't that something we as enthusiasts should celebrate? I think so. Keep scrolling to read some of the best responses, and let us know in the comments which one you think is the best idea — or if you have a better one. Continental convertible. Definitely. Submitted by: dustynnguyendood Did you know that Lady Gaga owns one of these? DeLorean is an obvious answer, doesn't mean it's wrong. Deloreon for sure. The DMC-12 deserved better power from the start and an EV powertrain in one of those would maybe make one of those worth driving. Delorean DMC12. Super cool car visually, but the mechanical aspects were terrible. You'd get a better performing and more reliable car. Plus, these things are mostly only driven around town or to Cars and Coffee anyways, so you don't need to worry about range much. Pretty sure this is the most played out answer by now but I don't care. I'm a fool for wedges. Submitted by: Andrew Gottlieb, This burner burns premium, Golfball, icrashbikes This EV-swapped DeLorean will do 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds! Really anything would be better than that Renault V6. Hear me out... In the year of our lord 2025, the Plymouth Prowler could be considered a classic. It should make the short list of great vehicle designs with an absolutely pitiful drivetrain. Space is at a premium under the hood for Hellcat / LS swaps, BUT an EV drivetrain could fit nicely. The same could be said for a Delorian, and some folks have been swapping those bad lads for a few years now. Submitted by: vr6dan How about a Cord 812? Having seen the Tampa Bay Auto Museum's Cord moving under its own power, I can attest that mid-1930s ICE technology definitely does not fit well with the Cord's sleek art deco styling. Mounting a 125hp hub motor under each of those fenders would do wonders for performance. Submitted by: Earthbound Misfit I Hell yeah. Fiat x19 or Toyota MR2 Modest electric motor and battery packs in the front, middle and rear. Retuned springs/struts for the extra weight. I see maybe 100 mi range and a freaking blast to drive. Submitted by: jdmmmmmm I think little sports cars like this are perfect candidates for EV swaps. Studebaker Avanti... really anything driven in Gattaca but the Avanti specifically. Also the Ford Thunderbird from 1961-1963 and 1964-1966. Submitted by: Clark Wise I'm sorry to say that I'm an Avanti hater, but an EV swap would make sense for it. 88-98 OBS GM pickup. IMO, the last good looking 'Truck's Truck' ever made. I've been following the work Deboss Garage up in Canukistan has been doing with Edison to make just such a thing happen. It's a series-hybrid kit they are working on, but close enough. Submitted by: C. Weeks This is easily my favorite era of GM truck. Any one of Nissan's Pike cars would make great town runabouts if converted to EV. You're probably not getting great range from an EV swap, but you wouldn't want to do long trips in these for the most part anyhow, and it's not like a basic four-cylinder is wildly characterful. Submitted by: Maymar In a perfect world we'd all be driving around Nissan's Pike cars. I think something big, elegant, old, and slightly sinister would really benefit from an EV conversion. Check this out: Now imagine it gliding silently out of the fog on a dark and deserted cobblestone street in London. I know I'd run for my life!! Submitted by: Anthony Thornton Having seen this thing in person, I whole-heartedly agree. Really any pre-war Rolls would be awesome as an EV. How about the good old Beetle? I mean, the original air-cooled H4's made at best, what 50-60HP in the 1600cc?You could easily adapt a small and lightweight electric engine to output that, or even double that. Balance the weight up front with the battery cells. Small eco electric, that would be a blast to drive. Submitted by: Knyte Really any old VW would be vastly improved with an electric powertrain. Very specifically our companies 1925 Model T Touring. The factory block has a crack in the cooling jacket, and unfortunately the company owner drove it without coolant. An EV conversion could make it far easier to drive, and I could hide battery packs under both seats. Submitted by: Drg84 This would be pretty sweet, but I can imagine electric torque in a car like this would be terrifying. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Boston Globe
27-01-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Climate change and the homeowners insurance crisis
TODAY'S STARTING POINT We experience climate change personally and most poignantly when a cascade of events finally catches up with us. Consider this sequence: A changing climate leads to freakier weather – storms that are more destructive and more frequent, rising seas and heavier precipitation that exacerbate flooding, heat waves that dry out vegetation, and longer droughts that make the land more vulnerable to fire. Storms, floods, and wildfires lead to homeowners suffering vast and catastrophic damages. Massive damages lead to insurance companies getting absolutely clobbered with many costly claims. And all that clobbering leads to insurers pulling out of certain high-risk regions, refusing to issue or renew policies in certain areas, or increasing rates so high that some customers can't afford to pay. Some choose to take their chances and let their policies lapse. That's where we are now. Some insurers are already pulling out of disaster-prone states, such as Florida, highly susceptible to hurricanes and flooding. In 2023, AAA announced it would Advertisement But it's not just in extreme-weather states that consumers are feeling the burn at the end of the cascade. 'Southern New England, the Carolinas, New Mexico and counties in the Northern Rockies, Oklahoma, and Hawaii all suffer from high non-renewal rates,' the US Senate Budget Committee said In 2023, Massachusetts had the fifth-highest non-renewal rate for homeowners insurance in the country, behind Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, and California. Our main issue is not wildfires, but flooding exacerbated by sea-level rise. In flood-prone areas, particularly Cape Cod and the islands, as many as one in nine policies went unrenewed, according to the Advertisement The Senate investigation found 'a correlation between rising non-renewal rates and rising premiums,' suggesting that climate change is becoming a major pocketbook issue for many American families. Of course, climate change is also a political issue, with Americans 'I've always felt that the thing that would drive climate response is the insurance companies,' Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the nonprofit Gottlieb said the Cape has been remarkably lucky, in that it has enjoyed decades without a significant hurricane, since Hurricane Bob in 1991. 'At the same time, we are extraordinarily vulnerable' due to the amount of new development on the Cape and the recent type of home building – mostly very big and very expensive. Major weather events aside, flooding is becoming a regular Cape problem. 'There are documented cases of severe, impactful flooding on the Cape,' he said. 'And if the insurance industry was not paying attention, then that would be surprising.' Surf Drive in Falmouth, for instance, a coastal road on the southern end of town, has become infamous for periodically flooding on high tides. 'Not storms,' said Gottlieb. 'It just floods.' The road and the homes on it may one day Shoreline loss caused by more violent storms is another issue. An oceanfront Nantucket home that sold for just $200,000 six months ago was knocked down by work crews a couple of weeks ago after it was condemned Advertisement The issue is that the waters off Cape Cod are warming faster than nearly any in the world, 'Perfect summers have grown hotter and muggier. Storms arrive violently, and more often. Occasionally, nature sends up an even more ostentatious flare: A historic home vanishes. The earth opens up and swallows a Honda Civic. A seasoned fisherman on the waters off Provincetown peers over starboard and spies an unmistakable shock of electric green: mahi-mahi, visiting from the tropics.' Gottlieb's organization is working on salt marsh restoration projects on the Cape, which can help buffer against flooding, and the Association is a founding member of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative, aimed at reducing the region's carbon footprint. But as the Senate Budget Committee put it, 'unless the United States and the world rapidly transition to clean energy, climate-related extreme weather events will become both more frequent and more violent, resulting in ever-scarcer insurance and ever-higher premiums.' What can residents do? If you can afford it, move to an area less subject to natural disasters. Yes, that's disruptive, but not as disruptive as losing your house. If you are denied private insurance, 34 states (including Of course, the only real answer is to arrest the advance of climate change. And the world isn't doing very well on that score. Advertisement POINTS OF INTEREST A woman's dress shoe was on display in front of a case full of battered shoes that belonged to Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz, part of a traveling exhibition. Musealia NEVER AGAIN: Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1945. The United Nations will hold a Holocaust Memorial Ceremony at 11 a.m. EST at UN headquarters in New York, streamed live on SNOW OUTLOOK: Two weak clipper systems are set to race across New England late Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing SCANDAL IN THE BERKSHIRES: An in-depth look at the sex abuse accusations that rocked Miss Hall's, an elite boarding school for girls in the Berkshires where an alleged sexual predator operated for decades. 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( Advertisement YOU MAKE STUFF COME ALIVE: A resident of the central Oregon city of Bend says he was the person behind some of the BLANK SCREENS: Why I won't let my kids watch YouTube videos and other thoughts on controlling the social media your kids use. ( THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION After a tit-for-tat fight in which the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro , turned away two US military planes carrying migrants because, he said, they were being mistreated, Trump threatened hefty tariffs, and Petro threatened tariffs of his own, things were finally settled when Petro relented and Trump fired about Pete Hegseth Vice President JD Vance said he supports immigration raids on schools and churches because they could have a 'chilling effect.' He also defended Trump's decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted cops. ( 📧 Want this sent to your inbox? Mark Arsenault can be reached at
