
[ Editor’s Note: I met Doug and his family while galavanting around Europe in my diesel manual Chrysler Voyager. By “tinkerer,” I do not mean itinerant tinsmith, but someone who is always looking for projects, whether that is improving (hopefully) something around the house or crawling under my Jeep XJ to replace another worn out part. So behold my EV conversion of a Vespa.Ī brief bit of background on myself: I’m a civil engineer by education, project manager by profession, and a tinkerer at heart.

While my initial pipedreams focused on converting an old car to an electric vehicle, I decided that it might be more sensible to start small. For several years now, I have been itching to undertake an EV conversion.
