How Jonny Smith Built the World’s Quickest Street Legal EV

On the latest episode of the Late Brake Show, host Jonny Smith gives a detailed description of how he took a lowly 1970s electric city car, and transformed it into the “World’s Quickest Street Legal EV”. This super quick drag racer started out as a humble, 1974 Enfield 8000. Originally, it had 8 hp, now it has over 800 horsepower. Jonny’s Flux Capacitor is a car that I was already aware of from its appearance on FullyCharged about 5 years ago. I was so taken but the little monster, that I have mentioned it in every history of the electric car class I have ever taught. I am including both videos below, along with a sampling of photos from Jonny’s blog site that details the cars transformation from obscure to record-breaking. Enjoy!

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