Best of Both Worlds? Classic 911 with Tesla Batteries
With Porsche and Tesla having quite the back and forth on the Nürburgring with the Taycan and Model S we thought we'd take a look at what could happen when worlds collide.
Electric Classic Cars
Electric Classic Cars, based in the U.K. will take an older car, any older car, and bring it into the 21st century by way of battery power. This 1979 911 SC is now known as the 911 E. When ECC first got a hold of the car the 911 was in pretty rough shape. Before work on the electric conversion could even take place the front fenders needed to be replaced, the car needed to be sanded down to the bare metal, and a nice shiny coat of paint.
Pre-conversion restoration
The car received a full makeover from the ground up including bare-metal paint, LED headlights, re-chroming, and a soft-backdating for a number of inefficient parts with more modern features. With all these modifications the 911 still retains its classic look, however, there is now a charging port where the stock fuel filler neck location once was. Other modern features were added to the car like power steering and regenerative braking to bring the underlying operation at the peak of modern electric motoring.
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The batteries are where?
Once you open the frunk you'll be greeted by 18 battery packs from a Tesla Roadster that come to a total of 54 kWh of battery power. The electric 911 will now travel for about 200 miles on just one charge and can now do a jaunt to 60 in just 5.5 seconds. For those of you who are familiar with the offerings from the house of Tesla will know that the 0-60 time of this car is the same as the Model 3.
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That's some mighty fine weight distribution
Where the flat-six used to sit in the rear of the car is now a nice empty space that you can use as storage space for any knick-knacks you may need to stow away. Adding to the battery packs from the Tesla Roadster is a pair of electric motors that shift through the car's original five-speed transmission. The arrangement of the batteries in the front gives the car a 48/52 weight distribution.
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Fully charged
What do you all make of this electric interpretation of a classic 911? Sure there's no rumble of the flat-six from the rear and the connection of the car has been broken with a manual transmission but hey, there's electricity. Every day more and more classic cars are getting this treatment to run on electricity and for the most part, people are receptive to the modification. Back in England, ECC has been hard at work on cars that span the field from a classic Range Rover to a BMW CSi.
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