If you are environment conscious ,but do not wish to give up your favorite Range Rover ,then take a look at UK based startup Liberty Electric Cars.This enterprise plans to invest £30 million in a business that will initially re-engineer conventional vehicles to convert them into all electric cars. Currently Liberty buys new rovers and minis and replace them with an electric engine to get a zero emission vehicle costing a royal £95,000 to £125,000 per vehicle.However plans are afoot to source empty "Rovers" to be fitted with electric engines to bring down the cost.
This is an interesting approach to produce low emission vehicles.CEO Barry Shrier further says that even if the battery used in these cars is recharged using fossil fuel powered plants, the emissions from such cars would be a third of conventional vehicles.This however is not clear whether we are just trading tail pipe car emissions to more coal/fossil fuels.
