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Another Porsche 914 gets the plug-in treatment

Back in the early 1970s when Volkswagen and Porsche collaborated to create the 914 sports car it's unlikely that either company imagined that the little roadster would someday become a popular platform for electric drive conversions. Nonetheless after reporting on a 914 battery conversion by a group of MIT students and their professor last summer, we now have found out about two more such tear-ups. Ross Cunniff of Fort Collins Colorado picked up a rusty 1975 914 a couple of years ago. He then installed an EV conversion kit that included 1,200 ... Read more →

LA 2007: electric 1899 Lohner-Porsche

Click on the Lohrner-Porsche for a high-res gallery While most people think of Toyota and Honda as the pioneers of hybrid power-train technology, the idea actually goes back many decades before ...

Another Porsche 914 gets the plug-in treatment 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back in the early 1970s when Volkswagen and Porsche collaborated to create the 914 sports car it's unlikely that either company imagined that the little roadster would someday become a popular platform for electric drive conversions. Nonetheless after reporting on a 914 battery conversion by a ...

LA 2007: electric 1899 Lohner-Porsche 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the Lohrner-Porsche for a high-res gallery While most people think of Toyota and Honda as the pioneers of hybrid power-train technology, the idea actually goes back many decades before either company existed. The man behind the all-wheel drive Auto Union Grand Prix cars of the 1930s got ...



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