“French regulations have authorized the electric conversion or retrofit of a vehicle and state certain conditions. To be converted to electric, the internal combustion vehicle must be roadworthy, registered in France and more than 5 years old. We guarantee our retrofit 2 years unlimited mileage and our batteries 5 years or 100,000 km.”
Libeau talks passionately about retrofitting as an ecological transition project, rather than an urge just to sell electric conversions, and he sees this as a contribution to preserving the earth’s climate. He says this is part of the so-called circular economy. “Our mission is to convert 100,000 vehicles in 5 years in the EU and 10,000,000 by 2035 in the world. We need ambition to emerge from this critical phase in our ecological history. So, you will understand our ambition is global. We have designed a generic retrofit unit that can be adapted to a large number of vehicles in order to expand rapidly. In the U.S., we can already retrofit Fiat 500s and Minis. Then we could extend to small cars from Toyota, GM and Honda.
After they rot on the lots, the price will be half what they’re asking.