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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR. Wrightspeed has shifted the sync function that used to be performed by mechanical means into software control of electronics, driving the electric motor with precision. The system is therefore lighter, cheaper, and more efficient.

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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

This Australian Defence Force ute has been stripped of its Isuzu diesel engine and gifted a NetGain electric motor and Tesla batteries. Power steering you use an electric hydraulic pump to run the original power steering system on the Perentie; on other vehicles you use an electric power steering kit that’s fitted in the column.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

His garage currently houses, apart from the e2o, a Toyota Prius and an Isuzu pickup. The womenfolk created some sewing kits and embroidery frames. He went on to own a Rover 2000, which was the most handsome looking car of its time. In the early 2000s he picked up his first electric car - the Revai. He also owned a MG eZS for a year.