Classic cars converted to electric drive are increasingly frowned upon (Question of the week)
With more and more modern electric cars on the road, specialists have long since started to retrofit old cars with electricity. The combustion engine and petrol tank are being removed and batteries and electric motors installed in their place. Even some car manufacturers are getting in on the act. For many classic car enthusiasts, the soul of the car is lost with such a conversion. Do the advantages of being able to keep up with modern traffic almost silently and without exhaust fumes really outweigh the concerns about destroying cultural heritage?
We asked this "question of the week" four years ago and have now repeated it. It was: Would you drive an electrified classic/young car?
For almost four-fifths (77.9%) of all respondents (over 310), the answer in 2023 is clear: they would definitely not want to drive a classic combustion engine car that had been converted into an electric car.
Almost a tenth (9.9%) could imagine this scenario in the future if there were no longer an alternative.
A further tenth (10.3%) could already imagine driving an electrified classic today, while 1.9% would not choose any of the three answers.
It is interesting to compare this with the 2019 survey. Back then, 71.9% were strictly against it, 14.2% could imagine it in the future and 12.3% would have been ready for it back then.
In the last four years, the willingness to drive a classic car that has been converted into an electric car has therefore clearly decreased and the willingness to preserve mobile cultural assets with combustion engines has increased.
Here is the graphical analysis of the responses (the percentages in 2019 are in brackets)
We have already asked a new "Question of the Week" , this time we want to know whether Zwischengas readers can imagine converting a car with an automatic transmission to manual transmission.
All evaluations of the previous "Questions of the Week" can still be found in the corresponding topic channel.
