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$3,000 DIY electric Mini Cooper is a fun exception among conversions

Green Car Reports

Benoit's Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel gained popularity focusing on Tesla rebuilds, but recently its star has been branching out. The 2020 Mini Cooper SE offers an all-electric powertrain from the factory, but YouTuber Rich Benoit took a different path to an electric Mini. As documented in a series of videos, he bought a non-running.

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Tesla Model 3 pickup “Truckla” gets updates and a perfectly wholesome robot charger

Teslarati

Back in 2019, YouTuber Simone Giertz, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sh*tty Robots,” created a one-off Tesla Model 3 build that took the automotive world by storm. Thus, for her Truckla update , Giertz shared how most of her Model 3 pickup truck conversion was essentially completed.

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Tesla Model 3 transformed into DIY electric pickup

Green Car Reports

Waiting and waiting for more details about the upcoming Tesla Pickup—the “cyberpunk truck”—or concerned that it’s going to be too big when it arrives? That’s what San Francisco YouTube star Simone Giertz did, from a Tesla Model 3. You could essentially build your own.

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1996 chevy s-10 conversion (part 2)

DIY Electric Car

Feb 2020: Bought a Tesla/Mercedes battery pack. 1996 chevy s-10 conversion (part 2). For anyone who has not been following along, I thought I would summarize the progress to date. Jan 2020: Bought my donor vehicle, a 1996 chevy S-10. Originally rated at 36kwh in 12x 7s modules.

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Do-It-Yourself Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

“I love Teslas,” says Graeme, owner of Oz-DIY Electric Vehicles, “they make great spare parts!” Graeme knows a lot about cars, both fossil fueled cars (ICE cars) and EV. He was the chairman of Australian Electric Vehicles Association Queensland for 7 years.

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1950 Jaguar Tesla Battery Swap Process Continues

InsideEVs

This is one of the coolest DIY classic car EV conversion projects that we currently know of.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. According to Howard, Rickard’s YouTube channel EVTV Motor Werks has received over 3 million hits, a majority on 507 DIY electric vehicle (EV) and other EV-related videos that Rickard produced over the 12 years he ran the company. “He