Ex-midfielder “Manchester United” and Real Madrid David Beckham invested in the British company Lunaz, which is engaged in the conversion of classic cars in the electrocars. The athlete’s money will go to the expansion of production towards the electrification of the freight transport, writes The Guardian.
Beckham acquired ten percent of Lunaz shares, the activities of which focuses on the production of electrocars due to the electrification of classic cars, including Rolls-Royce, Jaguar and Range Rover. The plant was launched in 2018 in the British village of Silverstone. The company replaces in the machines internal combustion engines with batteries and electric motors. The exhaust technology of environmentalization of the automotive industry Lunaz intends to scale to garbage trucks and other trucks.
“Lunaz is the best of British ingenuity both in technology and in design. I am interested in promoting the company, looking at its work to restore the most beautiful classic cars with electrification,” commented on his decision former football player to journalists of the British portal AutoCar.
The costs of electrifying the machines are quite high, but gradually decrease due to the growth of demand for eco-friendly transport, the founder of Lunaz David Lorenz notes. Rolls-Royce and garbage truck stands in approximately equally equally, about 350 thousand pounds of sterling (496 thousand dollars). At the same time, the re-equipment of garbage trucks into the electrical version, according to Lunaz estimates, will cost 40 percent cheaper than buying new diesel cars. Trucks with garbage run on a limited route, which is perfect if you need to charge the battery. Previously, the engine cleaning systems were installed in such machines, now in their place you can fit the batteries, the company’s representatives explain.
“We have to abandon the idea all the time to buy a new one. On the planet two billion cars, and each of them can be converted into electric,” the automaker emphasizes.
New cars with gasoline or diesel engines will be banned in the UK by 2030. The British are increasingly resorting to the service of converting their cars into electrocars, as the latest types of batteries managed to adapt for old models of passenger cars.
In addition to Beckham, the owners of Daily Telegraph, Brothers Ruben, who took second place in the list of the richest British families according to Sunday Times in the list of the richest British families in the Sunday Times version for 2020, an offacarious real estate investor Alexander Dellal.