The Electric Speed Shop was born out of a passion for electric vehicles. A passion that is focused on the conversion of sports and muscle cars to electric. A conversion removes the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle and installs an electric motor. The dream is to open an electric speed shop; A physical garage focused…
All posts in September 2019
Q&A Atlis Motors – Electric Speed Shop
Atlis Motor Vehicles was born Mark’s garage, ignited by curiosity and personal motivation. The goal: take his energy-guzzling diesel pickup and transform it into an electric truck. Back in 2014 it was just Mark, his truck, and long hours spent in the solitude of his garage. His early efforts spurred him to think hard about…
Greenshed Conversions Q&A – Electric Speed Shop
I met Steve Clunn in 2006 in a band. We are both musicians and now a duo. He showed up at a gig in an all electric converted Mazda B2000 truck with 42 GOLF CART batteries on board, a DIXIE CHOPPER he had converted to ELECTRIC and he mowed lawns with an all electric. I…
SWAPC : Pontiac G6 – Electric Speed Shop
The Electric Speed Shop previously looked at a SWAP-C for a Dodge Challenger. On those posts, is much more detail about an actual SWAP-C and what goes into the design decisions. For more information on that, please click here. In short, this is a space, weight and power review of a candidate car for an…
Q&A Shockwave Motors – Electric Speed Shop
One of my earliest memories of any kind of an electric vehicle date back to around 1958, I was only about 5 years old. At that time, I had a little red pedal tractor. My Dad told me about getting a small car battery and a starter motor; then using the tractor’s chain drive to…
Q&A Sessions Archives – Electric Speed Shop
We recently caught up with Jon Volk or better known as “tesla_bimmer” from Instagram to chat about his converted E30 BMW. Please tell us a little about yourself, your background and how you got interested in EV conversions. I have been messing around with cars since I got my license. Then I got into fabrication…
Q&A Converted Model T – Electric Speed Shop
Be sure to check our article all about Shockwave Motors and their Defiant EV3 RoadsterTM here. In this article we are going to talk about their conversion of a Model T! Why did you choose a Model T for a conversion? Actually, it is owned by someone else and they contacted us about doing the…
Q&A BluPrint Automotive – Electric Speed Shop
In 2009 I was inspired by the documentary film “Who Killed The Electric Car” to start a small company converting vehicles to electric. Was the goal always to be converting cars? Our ultimate goal is to manufacture our own electric HyperCar/MegaCar. What was the first conversion performed by BluPrint? Our first project was a Gen2 Toyota…
Making A Case for Conversions – Electric Speed Shop
If you are unfamiliar with what “Electric Conversion” means, it is a simple concept. Remove all the combustion engine components of your favorite car (or other vehicle) and replace them with electric components. Mainly a motor and batteries. The focus of The Electric Speed Shop is mainly on sports cars and muscle cars. That does…
Q&A Converted Ford Fiesta – Electric Speed Shop
I am a self proclaimed electrical nerd. Started with car audio in high school, degreed in electronics engineering, career electrical engineer (17 years?). Started building drones a couple years back. I knew about EV conversions back in 2002 but the lead acid ba eries were horrible so li le interest grew. With the availability of…