Let's use a recent email from one of our Cooley on Cars viewers, KC in Cincinnati, who wants to build an EV. He's looking at a Factory Five 818, a kit car that is sort of a cross between a Lotus ...

All-Electric Project V Is Caterham's First New Car Ever: 268 HP, ... It's unclear at this time whether it'll be officially homologated for U.S. roads, or be imported as a kit car like the Seven.

Transform it with an electric conversion. A team at Carnegie Mellon University here in Pittsburgh has come up with an all-included kit to make your 2001-2005 Civic a zero-emission battery car .

Unlike the EV 7, which remains a concept car, Caterham intends to bring Project V to consumers' garages by late 2025 or early 2026, targeting a price below £80,000 ($104,000 USD). Everything to ...

Last year, we told you about a wild project car that combined a Factory Five 818 kit car, two Chevrolet Volt batteries, and a Tesla Model S motor. Back then, the car was in its early stages ...

Builder of the ZW2C electric trike (shown) Gary Krysztopik is preparing to release the EZ-EV car as open source plans, build-it-yourself kits and complete vehicles View 16 Images 1 / 16 ...

Switzerland-based Kyburz is now selling the EROD (via elektroauto), a small electric vehicle offered both as a kit car and as an assembled vehicle. It looks like a lot of fun to drive – see a ...

Ford has announced an electric crate motor for custom car builds. The Eluminator will be unveiled at the SEMA show this November.

Ford unveiled a cool F-100 EV conversion concept at SEMA, but it takes training to learn how to retrofit your car to electric power without burning down the house.

Home-converting a car to electric power would be so easy were it not for all those inconvenient drivetrain parts you have to remove. It's like carmakers didn't think of what people might want to ...

The specs of the iRACER are reasonably close to those of wingless sprint cars. At 3.6 meters (11.8-ft) in length and 1.635 meters (5.4-ft) in width, the iRACER is short, but not narrow in the ...

Almost one year ago, in October 2016, we told you about a Factory Five 818 kit car equipped with a Tesla Model S P85 electric motor and two Chevrolet Volt battery packs that was running the ...