• londos@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I believe it. All the retrofits I’ve seen seem to be highly custom and/or for classic cars. If someone developed a standard procedure for converting Honda Civics for example, I thought there could be savings and it would make a decent impact since they’re so common.

    I also think some people would be more receptive to an “upgrade” rather than a full on trade-in. People can get attached to their cars for reasons other than economics.

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      7 months ago

      There are companies that specialize in doing the conversion to EV. So indeed the gov rebate could theoretically be to cover the cost of that. I think $6k would be sufficient budget.