https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbjqad/mechanics-are-putting-tesla-motors-in-cars

You don’t have to own a Tesla to drive a Tesla—or, at least, a car that runs like one.

Elon Musk’s electric car company is notoriously grumpy about Tesla owners working on their own cars, but that hasn’t stopped enthusiastic mechanics from fixing up the vehicles and even lifting the electric motors out of Teslas and putting them in the chassis of other, formerly gas guzzling cars.