They'll turn your gas guzzler into an EV. But be prepared to wait

Pro skater Tony Hawke owns a classic Corvette Stingray like this one, but one that he has had converted to run on electric power. — dpa

LOS ANGELES: Mark Wagner isn't sure what he enjoys more: the looks he gets when he pulls his ancient Volkswagen ragtop into a EV charger parking space, or the looks he gets because of what he does next.

Wagner's car rolled off of a VW Beetle assembly line in 1962, the year Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev played nuclear brinkmanship with President Kennedy.