A German company has offered its customers an electric Lada Niva, for the modest sum of € 2,800.
While governments have embarked on a great hunt for CO2, before ultimately the ambition to do away with heat engines, many companies have decided to ride the trend of the electric car. This is how retrofitting developed, this increasingly widespread practice, which consists of removing the heat engine from a car and replacing it with a zero-emission engine. If all vehicles are eligible for this transformation, the one we are talking about today is unusual to say the least.
And for good reason, a German company, baptized Elantrie, specializing in retrofitting, tackled a car unlike any other: the Lada Niva. A model notably marketed in Russia, but which has a large community of fans abroad, who must undoubtedly be tearing their hair out when reading this article. Anyway, the small 4X4 has therefore converted to electric, then swapping its four cylinders for an electric motor, then developing no less than 87 horsepower, five more than the original version. Powered by a 30 kWh battery, it then allows the vehicle to travel between 130 and 300 kilometers depending on the driving style and the type of trip made. Note that the 4X4 can also be used as a generator to power other electrical devices.
Less than 10,000 €
Outside, nothing changes on this Lada Niva zero-emission, which therefore remains strictly identical to the standard version, launched in 1977, and only the company’s stickers can distinguish it. But the main advantage of this unusual version is above all its price. And for good reason, Elantrie asks € 2,800 for the transformation, which must then be added to the amount of the standard car, posted at around € 7,650 in Russia. In total, it is therefore possible to drive an electric Lada Niva for less than € 10,000, which would then make the Russian 4X4 an excellent alternative to the Dacia Spring… if it were sold in France!
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A German company has offered its customers an electric Lada Niva, for the modest sum of € 2,800.
While governments have embarked on a great hunt for CO2, before ultimately the ambition to do away with heat engines, many companies have decided to ride the trend of the electric car. This is how retrofitting developed, this increasingly widespread practice, which consists of removing the heat engine from a car and replacing it with a zero-emission engine. If all vehicles are eligible for this transformation, the one we are talking about today is unusual to say the least.
And for good reason, a German company, baptized Elantrie, specializing in retrofitting, tackled a car unlike any other: the Lada Niva. A model notably marketed in Russia, but which has a large community of fans abroad, who must undoubtedly be tearing their hair out when reading this article. Anyway, the small 4X4 has therefore converted to electric, then swapping its four cylinders for an electric motor, then developing no less than 87 horsepower, five more than the original version. Powered by a 30 kWh battery, it then allows the vehicle to travel between 130 and 300 kilometers depending on the driving style and the type of trip made. Note that the 4X4 can also be used as a generator to power other electrical devices.
Less than 10,000 €
Outside, nothing changes on this Lada Niva zero-emission, which therefore remains strictly identical to the standard version, launched in 1977, and only the company’s stickers can distinguish it. But the main advantage of this unusual version is above all its price. And for good reason, Elantrie asks € 2,800 for the transformation, which must then be added to the amount of the standard car, posted at around € 7,650 in Russia. In total, it is therefore possible to drive an electric Lada Niva for less than € 10,000, which would then make the Russian 4X4 an excellent alternative to the Dacia Spring… if it were sold in France!
Also read on Auto-Moto.com:
A 1984 Lada Niva entered for the Dakar 2022
New Lada Niva 2024: first info and image
The Lada Niva is not dead: new developments in 2020
