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Today I was at New Electric in Amsterdam to pick up two Siemens motors and two DMOC controllers. One of the sets is for my project and the other one for my father who is going to do the same conversion. Furthermore I had some info from New Electric about interaction between the 12V and high … Read more

After a search of two months and 11 cars that I checked out I found a replacement body for my EV conversion. The number of options was very limited and every car had it’s pros and cons. This varied from quality of previous repairs, not for sale anymore and questions about the identity. In the … Read more

After removing the dash I inspected my current estate in more detail and concluded that I wanted a better donor for the EV conversion. Especially the need for replacing the sliding roof made me decide that. Mid May 2015 I started searching. Over the last two months I have checked out 11 cars from a … Read more

At Volvo dealer Harrie Arendsen in Ruurlo, a meeting was organised by ATC Deventer-Zutphen where Martijn Hendriks shared his story about converting his Volvo 240 GL Classic to electric. After some words of welcome in local dialect Martijn was introduced. He thoroughly explained his entire conversion. One of his principles was a professional conversion and preserving the … Read more

Now that the renovation of the garage has been completed and the wagon is back inside, the project can finally almost start (just cleaning up a leftover). I was already busy collecting beautiful parts, among other things to give it a little more power (double solex carburetors, 123 tune ignition, 8-hole B20 bottom block for … Read more