so mark cieslak has been finding out how they could still be saved from the scrapheap. modern, almost silent automobiles spring to mind. their interiors spartan and stripped of buttons and switchgear, replaced with touchscreen and acres of space. discovering that this 1953 morris minor is in fact a fully electric car might come as a bit of a surprise then. it has been converted from petrol to electric by the london electric car company, based here in vauxhall. this fine example of a vintage british automobile has had its fossilfuel—drinking guts ripped out and replaced with an electric motor and batteries, a task which is not as simple as i am making it sound. matthew quitter set up his company converting classic cars to electric back in 2017. parked in his garage now is a range of customers‘ different old school cars all being converted, from land rover to lancias. as a result, matthew has to figure out the best conversion solution for each individual car. in a lot of cases cars we're converting, they have never been converted before. so with the electric morris minors