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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
I've often thought that a good car setup for our family would be two cars, a NEV and an ICEV.
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Back when NEVs were a growing segment, I used to think so too.
But my province never ended up allowing NEVs to be registered here. Official reason was lack of safety equipment/crashworthiness in the vehicles compared to regular cars / conventional EVs.
I converted the ForkenSwift instead, and even at just 48V it ended up with a higher top speed than the NEV class, since it was based on a regular car (and thus not electronically speed limited). Though I'm sure a ZENN would have beat it to 25 mph/40 km/h in a drag race!
It's all moot now anyway, since these days you can find a "beater" EV (eg. early Leaf or Volt) for less money than it would cost to do a comparable conversion.
Although none of the above beats a free ZENN.