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Although safety is certainly a legitimate issue, I can almost guarantee that car manufacturers will use that as an excuse to kill this form of competition -- yet another way in which capitalism is dooming our species to extinction.
A company in my city created an EV conversion kit for any cars years ago. As they could not get certification for all models, they made a partnership with the constructor and managed to have certification for only 1 model (Renault Master, a utility truck) and now the company is controlled by Renault (the constructor).
They indeed killed the competition...
It's almost like they should be open sourcing the method, so it can be accessible to anyone.
Unfortunately open sourcing is not an option without certification, cause vehucles will not be allowed to go on roads.
At least here in europe
As long as the car is inspected and passed after the fact I don't see why you would need certification for the actual conversion. Of course that's a big risk on the owner, but if you're pretty sure you know what you're doing it's not that much of a risk
I test drove an electric conversion vw bug and vw gti 25 years ago. I saw but did not drive electric porsche 914s and fiat 124s 20 years ago. I remember seeing electric miata conversions. This is not new and it should continue