The classic rocker Neil Young is singing to a different tune–electric cars.
With the advent of electric cars getting a rebirth, the musician has decided to partner up with his friend Johnathan Goodwin, a mechanic who has a reputation nationwide for re-engineering power systems in average cars to gain more horsepower and rely less on fuel.
Goodwin has developed a prototype power system that is being used on Young’s 1959 Continental Convertible which they tested not too long ago with some glitches. But the feat of making Young’s Convertible into an electric car is fascinating with a positive future. And that future involves using Young’s car as the staple for the first affordable mass-produced electric automobile.
“The technology to make a practical and affordable electric car has been around for a long time,” Goodwin noted. PUMP N’GO couldn’t agree with him more with this notion. The fact is the technology is here, and the national Automakers need to take notice.
Neil Young is optimistic about the change in the technology.
“You know, I thought long ago you could change the world by writing songs,” he said. “But we could change it with this car.”
To quote a lyric from one of Neil Young’s songs, “I’ve been searching for a heart of gold.” Indeed. PUMP N’GO feels that Neil Young has found his “pot of gold” in electric cars.
