Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
On FB there appear some sort of contests for electric conversions...I have always treated them as spam/scams, but they had a mid-60s VW bus modified for electric. Cool idea -- but one would be able to go way too fast in an unsafe vehicle for those speeds (>60 mph).
Not to mention any electric conversion is never going to get anywhere close to the range of a vehicle designed to be electric from the ground up. Everything has to be light in an EV, and those old vehicle frames aren't light. Also EVs get much better range at 60 mph and below anyways, mostly because air resistance goes up exponentially with speed.