Does anyone own an EV converted from ICE?
I was wondering if it’s more to insure because there’s no history of safety on the model, similar to owning a foreign car that’s not officially imported in the US.
Liability insurance will be the same.
The only thing stopping me from EV swapping my mint van is that in British Colombia I can insure a vehicle that is EV swapped, but the insurer absolutely refuses to insure any private car for more than the book vale. ‘Because someone could commit fraud’. Even if I get a professional appraisal.
Yet my bus RV conversion I can walk in, tell them a number and they blindly insure it for whatever dollar amount I tell them. Of course I over-insure that.
I suspect you can get a professional appraisal done in California then insure for that value. You are still classifying it as whatever vehicle you started with. Based off either the frame or body serial number.