{"id":82021,"date":"2025-04-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82021"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:00:00","slug":"everratis-electric-porsche-911-restomod-is-the-true-soul-of-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82021","title":{"rendered":"Everrati’s electric Porsche 911 restomod is the true soul of driving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the sportscar world, there is much discussion about retaining the \u201cpurity\u201d of the sputtering, underperforming gas-guzzling engines of yesteryear. After a drive in Everrati\u2019s Porsche 911 restomod, you\u2019ll be ready to embrace the present and see just how much the drive experience can improve with modern technology.<\/p>\n

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There has been a lot of discussion about \u201cpurity\u201d of the driving experience related to EVs. Some decry the \u201cnumb\u201d feeling of the consumer-focused EVs they\u2019ve driven, and think that this is indicative of some wider impossibility to provide an engaging drive experience in an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n

But of course, when you compare a modern jellybean SUV<\/a>, regardless of powertrain, with a purpose-built sportscar, there are going to be some differences in drive dynamics that aren\u2019t flattering to the SUVs.<\/p>\n

So lets make that comparison a little more fair. Let\u2019s take an actual<\/em> sportscar, a Porsche 911 (964) RSR, updated to the present day with an electric powertrain, and see just how much that \u201cpurity\u201d in drive experience can be carried over with intentional effort, rather than kowtowing to perceptions of current market trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For some background on myself, I started driving EVs with the original Mini E, which was merely a retrofit vehicle with the back seats replaced by a giant stack of batteries. It was a bit of a kludge, but I still fell in love with it largely due to the strengths of electric propulsion.<\/p>\n

I then went on to buy an original Tesla Roadster, one of the few true sportscars out there that runs on electricity, so I\u2019ve got more experience than most in small electric two-seaters.<\/p>\n

There are certainly a lot of high-performance EVs these days, but most of them are hefty (4,000-5,000 lbs or more), 4-5 seaters with all-wheel drive (my toxic trait is that as far as I\u2019m concerned, if it isn\u2019t rear wheel drive, it isn\u2019t really<\/em> a sportscar).<\/p>\n

So imagine my enthusiasm when I was offered a drive in a custom-built electric Porsche 911 (as long as Porsche refuses to make one itself<\/a>\u2026).<\/p>\n

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So, I headed down to Crystal Cove in Newport Beach, California, to meet Everrati CEO Justin Lunny and take this thing for a spin, to see what this real electric sportscar can do \u2013 and lets just say there might be a new entry on my lottery ticket shopping list.<\/p>\n

Everrati is a UK-based company that does electric restomods of several vehicles, including the Porsche 911, Mercedes-Benz W113 Pagoda, Land Rover Series IIA and Ford GT40.<\/p>\n

The company has completed 20 cars so far, with Porsche 911s being the most popular vehicle to convert.<\/p>\n

I caught Lunny charging the Porsche as I pulled up, at a 50kW charging station. It has two charging inlets \u2013 one in the rear, under the trunk, which does DC or AC charging, and one in the front, using the 911\u2019s original fuel door, which only does AC charging. The car is capable of 70kW charge rates, and while we don\u2019t know what its charge curve looks like, that should mean 30-45 mins for a 10-80% charge.<\/p>\n

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