{"id":210,"date":"2008-08-05T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:26:17","slug":"first-tesla-crash-first-electric-supercar-motor-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"First Tesla Crash = First Electric Supercar Motor Swap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen but honestly I did not think it would happen this soon. Just as the first Veyron crash owner learned the very expensive way, people will always have accidents and some have it in supercars. The big question is will the owner get this fixed? I would think they will fork over the money for the repairs since these are such status symbols in California. I have no idea where the body panels will come from since Tesla Motors is behind in fulfilling previous orders. I can&#8217;t wait until some ingenious swappers gets a hold of one of these electric drivetrains. Just think of a AWD system with two of these 3-phase motors. I will go ahead and say whoever does it first, please take us for a ride-along.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hey (link not active) via <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/399346\/worlds-first-tesla-roadster-crash-thats-been-caught-on-camera\">Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen but honestly I did not think it would happen this soon. Just as the first Veyron crash owner learned the very expensive way, people will always have accidents and some have it in supercars. The big question is will the owner get this fixed? I would think they will fork&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=210\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Tesla Crash = First Electric Supercar Motor Swap?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tesla"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42878,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=42878","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":0},"title":"Nissan R32 Skyline with a Tesla Electric Motor","author":"swaptastic","date":"July 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year we shared the electric Nissan R32 Skyline \"ER32\" built by Chris Hazell and his company Zero EV in Bristol, UK. 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