Porsche 964 911 EV Owner Thinks That the Future Is Electric

Electrified Classic

Everatti has been converting sports cars and vintage SUVs into all-electric vehicles for some time now, and that list includes the beloved 964-gen Porsche 911. Of course, such a machine isn't exactly what one might call cheap, with prices starting out at a whopping $300k - not including the donor car. This means that only a select few can afford such a machine, like former Apple engineer and Nest co-founder Matt Rogers, who owns this one.

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Times Change

Rogers is the very first person in the U.S. to take delivery of a car from Everatti, but it's just the beginning of such a trend. In fact, as he explained to Forbes, many wealthier folks in California, in particular, are gravitating toward electric-converted classic vehicles rather than new ones, using Elon Musk's prior purchase of a McLaren F1 as an example of how things have changed.

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Shunning ICE

"We love our cars here…but overwhelmingly people are wanting to move to electric," Rogers said. "We had a similar story [to Musk's McLaren purchase] at Nest. One of the entrepreneurs from one of the companies we acquired at Nest bought a McLaren the next day and people looked at him funny. Like, 'what are you doing?' It's so loud and with a spewing exhaust. It's like 'gosh, it’s kind of tacky actually.' That is the culture, especially in the Bay Area. People are very environmentally conscious."

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Passion for Porsche

However, Rogers' 964-gen 911 isn't just a way for the tech veteran to signal that he cares about the planet while also looking cool at the same time - this particular car is a 1991 model, the very same that his father once owned and he rode around in the back of as a kid. After that, Rogers became a Porsche fan for life and has owned many of them over the years.

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Core Memory

"I love those cars and they've had a special place in my heart, especially now my kids can be in the back seat like I was when I was a kid," Rogers said. "That dropping oil in the garage - you know your Porsche loves you when there’s a pool of oil on the floor - I think those days are over. There are different ways to preserve that legacy."

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Preserving the Classics

And that's precisely where EV conversions like this come into play - many believe that fossil fuel-powered vehicles will eventually become a thing of the past, replaced by electricity for good. At the same time, people like Rogers and Everrati founder and chief executive Justin Lunny believe that we need to act to save these classics for future generations.

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Can't Lose

"It's cars that we just don't want to lose," Lunny said. "If we're not careful with what we’re doing, our kids will not have anything like that [classic Porsche 911] to look back on. They will have, dare I say it, current Teslas to look back on, or current Leafs or whatever it might be, and that scares the life out of me."

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