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Vanagon Syncro owner here! I can’t imagine ever parting with mine.

My stated plan is to convert it to electric in 2025.

There’s good progress being made forging a path - see the DreamEV guys on YouTube for a currently ongoing 2wd Tesla vanagon conversion. They documented all the steps, are pretty entertaining, and just finished like 2 weeks ago.

If I was to do it now, I’d go Tesla engines front and rear to keep the AWD and ditch the engine and both diffs, which are the most troublesome part of the syncro anyway.

In 5 years, who knows. Maybe I’ll transplant the parts from a scrapped 2023 Cyber Truck!




1974 T2 owner here, and converting it to electric is my retirement project, in 15 years or so.

Got to keep these museum pieces alive and relevant!


Museum pieces are supposed to be authentic.


Which one do you have? T4, T5? Or even a T3?




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