Battery makers
Your packs, named in the bid spec. Owners pick range, shops pick suppliers. Get your cells on the shortlist.
Keep the classic.
Lose the petrol.
List your classic and EV conversion shops bid to strip it and rebuild it fully electric. Best price and fastest delivery wins, even if the shop is three states or three borders away. We sort the shipping.
Owners list free. No listing fee, no obligation to accept a bid.
Shops pay only on a win. 10% of the winning bid, minimum $49, once the job is paid.
Your deposit is held, not handed over. It is released in stages as checkpoints pass with photo proof.
Your dashboard
How it works
28 seconds, start to finish.
- Enter your VIN
- Get a free cost estimate
- Shops bid
- Shipping quoted in the bid
- Pay in stages as work is proven
Cars up for bid
Live board, priced in each owner's currency. Open in the US, Europe, Australia, India and New Zealand.
List your car
Listing is free. Bidding runs 7 days. You are never obliged to accept a bid.
Find a conversion specialist
Shops, kit makers and suppliers already on Swaxcar. Claimed profiles are run by the business itself.
Is your business listed but unclaimed? The claim link went to your published email. Ask us to resend it.
For conversion specialists
You do the work, you set your price. Bid on any car on the board with your best number and your honest timeline. Win, and the owner's deposit is held on the platform and released in stages as the job hits agreed checkpoints, with photo proof at each one.
Out-of-state job? Quote shipping in your bid. Plenty of owners would rather ship a car to the right shop than settle for the nearest one.
- Free to join and bid. 10% fee only when you win and get paid (minimum $49).
- Bids show price, weeks to deliver, battery size, range, warranty and shipping.
- We rank on price and delivery time together, so a fair price delivered fast beats a cheap price delivered never.
- Open in every country on the listing form. Verification badges are coming.
Sponsors
Every conversion on this board needs parts and a place to be seen. Sponsor slots are priced per campaign: one payment, no monthly plan.
Conversion kit makers
Bolt-in kits turn a six-month job into a six-week one. Featured kit badges on matching cars.
Used car showrooms
A classic on your lot that will not sell because it does not run right? List it as a conversion candidate and sell it minted.
Classic car clubs
Bring your members. Club pages, club-only featured listings, and first look at cars from your marque.
Grants and rebates, honestly
There is no US federal grant that pays to convert a classic car, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. Here is what is real.
- Clean Cars 4 All
- Income-qualified drivers who scrap an old polluting car can get up to $12,000 toward a clean replacement, plus up to $2,000 for charging. Run by local air districts. It pays for a replacement car, not a conversion, and we will tell you straight if that beats converting yours.
- Driving Clean Assistance Program
- The statewide version for income-qualified drivers outside those air districts. Same deal: replacement money, worth checking before you spend your own.
- HVIP approved kits
- California's HVIP program supports certain approved conversion systems on the commercial side. If your shop qualifies, we flag it on your bids.
- Road-legal paperwork
- A converted car from 1976 or newer needs a BAR referee inspection to be road legal in California. Every California winner's checklist includes it.
- Prime au rétrofit
- France actually pays toward conversions: up to 80% of the cost, capped at €5,000 for lower-income owners and €1,500 at other incomes, when a qualified professional does the work and you keep the car at least a year and 6,000 km. The approved shop advances the money on the invoice.
- Check the budget first
- The national budget for the premium was cut sharply for 2026, so ask the shop to confirm funds are still open before you count on it.
- Approval, not grants
- Most European countries do not pay for conversions, but they allow them. The car needs national approval after the swap: TÜV individual approval in Germany, the DVLA route in the UK, and the local equivalent elsewhere. Shops bid with that inspection included, so the price you see is the road-legal price.
- Approved kits only
- Conversions are legal through one route: an ARAI or ICAT type-approved kit, fitted by an authorised installer, then inspected and endorsed on the registration certificate at the RTO. Typical car conversions run ₹3 to 8 lakh, and some states waive road tax on converted cars.
- No grants, clear sign-off
- Neither country pays for conversions right now. Both have a clear approval path: an engineer's certificate for modified vehicles in Australia, and LVV certification in New Zealand. That certificate is one of the winning shop's delivery checkpoints.
For classic car auction sites
Your bidders already found the car. Half of them are doing the maths on an electric swap. Add one button next to the lot. The VIN carries over, the car lands on our board pre-filled, and your site is credited as the source.
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We get it. The sound, the smell, the ritual. Nobody here is coming for the car you show on Sundays. Swaxcar is for the classic that sits under a cover because it broke again, the one you love looking at and dread starting. Keep the shape. Keep the soul. Lose the tow truck. And where a shop can do it, ask for a reversible conversion, so the original engine stays with the car.