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Review: Mazda MX-30 EV masquerades as an exotic, misses what matters

Green Car Reports

It embodies a unique package not shared with any gasoline model and its design details transcend its sub-$40,000 price tag. For the most part, these were electric conversions of small cars—the Fiat 500. Yet it sends out some of the disappointing signals of the so-called compliance cars from a decade earlier.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Get all the latest EV news and reviews delivered to your inbox with our weekly newsletter. General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion. Mazda MX-30 – sporty thinking in a compact SUV body with rear-hinged back doors.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Marketwatch ).

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