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Q&A Sessions Archives – Electric Speed Shop

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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 pretty quickly since it was the most affordable way to build a car on my own. I was never interested…

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How and when did Fenix Power get started? What was the original mission when getting started? Fenix’s beginnings pre-date it’s actual formation as a business and was born out of my own personal interest in EVs.  So I hope you don’t mind, but the following is more of a story than a simple answer! In engineering school (Kettering U.) in the early 1990s a friend was working on a senior project that involved converting a…

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Can you tell us a little about yourself, your background and how you became interested in EV conversions? I live in Sydney, Australia, have a degree in electrical engineering majoring in telecommunications and am employed in the television industry. My wife has a theory that Engineers always need a project and I think my fascination for EV’s is confirmation of that. An interest in cars developed in my early teens through helping a neighbor restore…

How and when did EV Torque get started? Was the goal always to be converting cars? We started as a Hobby and really, we still are about 5 years ago. I had a dream of building a electric kit car a bit like fellow New Zealander Ian Wright Wrightspeed who build the open wheeler that could beat super cars off the mark. What was the first conversion performed by EV Torque? What is the most…

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Please tell us a little about yourself, your background and how you got started in EV conversions. I’ve lived in Colorado all my life, and I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with electronics and mechanical projects. I’m going to seminary right now, and I’d like to teach, but I’m in IT at the moment. About four or five years ago I started working on cars, and things progressed from there! Then, I got into EVs when I…