MIT Students Convert Porsche to an EV

Valence Technology has contributed 18 lithium phosphate batteries for use in an MIT student engineering project that converts a 914 Porsche into an electric vehicle. The vehicle will be used as a research and development tool to demonstrate the viability of electric cars

Yang Shao-Horn, associate professor in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering, and her husband, Dr. Quinn Horn, spearheaded the project after buying the Porsche from eBay to offer students a hands-on learning experience. The project will provide valuable information for Shao-Horn’s research on advanced batteries, and with the student’s help her research team can measure conditions that batteries encounter inside an operating vehicle.