Porsche 356 by Electrogenic review: Electric conversion allows owner to get more use out of a classic. And if it’s not your cup of tea, you don’t have to drink it
Electrogenic, the Oxfordshire EV-conversion company behind it, thinks it might be the first electrified original 356 in existence, made at the behest of the car’s owner, who wants to drive a zero-emissions classic in town and whose family didn’t much like driving it when it had an engine.
Anyway, the modifications here – and they’re very subtly and artfully done – involve adding a 36kWh battery and inverter and associated gubbins dotted throughout the car, including in the boot, and a 120bhp electric motor where the engine was in the back, still driving through the standard four-speed manual gearbox. The owner didn’t have to have it that way but preferred the idea of keeping that driver engagement.From the outside, you wouldn’t know there was anything unusual about this 356.
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