I’d say obviously not, for the Coupé and cars where the engine or transmission is a large part of the experience.

But my Citroën CX Break (or a DS!) … mmmm!

Brilliant idea, old Italian car and electricity.

I'm not terribly convinced by these types of things. Hats off to the folk that make it happen; there's a lot of creativity. Plus I think electric is the way forward. But adding the batteries and a motor massively alters the dynamics of any car. Most classics are wobbly jelly with not enough brakes or suspension, compared to modern cars. You address that and what's left of the classic?

Best ways you get something that looks like the original, and worst, something that's fundamentally compromised

Joe and I looked into this some years ago, and concluded that the cost of the conversion would be significantly more than the most expensive coupes out there. We concluded it simply wasn't worth it.

Though if the price of the batteries ever falls to a sane level... as an example, an electric plane reviewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqF55MjU9jc pointed out a cost of around a Euro an hour to fly, with 70kWh of new battery required every 500 hours - for twenty-two thousand euros. Giving a cost of about 45 euros an hour (Assuming that's for both the batteries on the plane.)

That's about four or five times what the French Thing[tm] or the coupe costs. Though of course 500 hours at an average of around 40mph (taken over several years when I was commuting an hour a day each way) is still 20,000 miles. Given that many of us now use the coupe less than 3,000 miles a year, hmm, six or seven years?

Neil

To be totally honest Hydrogen Fuel Cell is actually the future. At the moment too expensive but it will come down

It won't be the future if they don't find an economic way to make hydrogen that doesn't make more CO2 than it replaces...