Electric Karmann Ghias are a thing

There’s a startling number of them out there.  Actually any number greater than zero is startling, since the body-on-pan contstruction used in air-cooled VWs is not ideal for carrying batteries, to say the least.   You have to do a major amount of creative work to pull this off even with modern lightweight battery packs.

Jay Donnaway’s Karmann Electric

David Herron’s eKarmann

Zelectric in California will even build you one, for about twice the cost of a Tesla, but at least ten times the wow factor.

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