Tag: Cortina

After featuring on the cover of UK magazine Classic Ford earlier in the year, the electric Mk1 Cortina has been nominated as a contender for their Car of the Year 2021. It only takes a few seconds, 3 clicks, and no need to enter name/email/data etc. So no excuse! Let’s try to get an electrified […]

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This month’s Street Machine magazine (Australia’s leading customised car magazine) is a very special issue, not just because it is the 40th anniversary edition, but also because they have featured a full 6 page spread on the electric Cortina! Not only that, but here is another full article all about EV conversions, with more pics […]

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How cool is this? A cover story in the new Classic Ford magazine from the UK! Classic Ford wanted to know all about the conversion process, the history of the Cortina and how I decided to tackle the task of electrification. The photos by Matt Williams were so good that it nabbed the front cover […]

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Iconic Australian auto magazine Street Machine have gone out on a limb and featured the electric Mk1 Cortina in the below video on their YouTube channel, posing the question: “Is this the future of Street Machining? This Cortina has ditched the factory four-pot for a single Tesla motor and a reduced battery back. It gets […]

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The all electric Cortina has picked up a bit of media coverage lately. Here’s a fantastic article by Iain Curry from EV Central. He took some great shots of the car and even had a quick drive which he enjoyed thoroughly. Given he drives high performance vehicles for a living this was quite a compliment! […]

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The build video is now live on YouTube! Finally we managed to pin down some time to film a walk-around (and under) of the technical features of the 1965 Mk1 Ford Cortina electric conversion with James from Traction EV . Check out the video on YouTube and please leave any comments and questions and let […]

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Range test – 100% to 0% So it was time to test out the range in the all-electric Ford Cortina following a recent battery upgrade. After stripping out a wrecked Tesla Model X100D, which have the rarer, more energy-dense 6.2kWh battery modules, I was able to swap out the previous 5.3kWh Tesla modules with the […]

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Here’s some links to published articles, interviews and write-ups about Charged Garage’s first 100% classic electric car conversion — a 1965 Ford Mk1 Cortina. Classic Ford Magazine (UK) 14th Jan, 2020 The Driven Feb 11, 2020 Ecogeneration Mar 23, 2020 Webinar The first in a series of webinars on EV Conversions by EVolution Australia – […]

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Here’s some photos of the major steps involved in converting a classic car to 100% electric power. In this case it is a Ford 1965 Mk1 Cortina. This isn’t meant to be a how-to guide, or an exhaustive build log – just a quick photographic breakdown of the major steps in electrifying a classic ride. […]

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How hard can it be? We had the hardware (a CHAdeMO socket salvaged from a wrecked Mitsubishi i-MiEV), and the software (Orion BMS2), which proclaims to support CHAdeMO charging “out of the box”. Unfortunately it wasn’t exactly a plug-n-play exercise to get DC fast charging to work on a non-OEM electric car. See the previous […]

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