INVERTED RANGE ROVER CLASSIC

New electromodder sets out stall with 450bhp interpretation of classic off-roader

- ILLYA VERPRAET

TESTED 10.8.23, WARWICKSHIRE ON SALE LATE 2024

There appears to be one main guiding principle for whether converting a classic car to electric is acceptable to the purist: did it have a good engine in the first place? A Citroën DS? Fetch the engine hoist. A V12 Ferrari Daytona? Boo, hiss etc.

So what about a classic Range Rover? Sure, the V8 burble is nice, but is it integral to the car's character? You will perhaps be comforted to know, then, that this particular Range Rover exited the factory in 1990 as a diesel. Inverted's conversion follows the now well-trodden path for a high-dollar electromod: take one carefully restored shell and add low-mileage Tesla bits.

Charge comes from an 80kWh Tesla battery pack that has been split up so that nine of the cells live under the bonnet and six go in the boot (which is now quite a bit smaller as a result).