Last updated 7 November 2026. Written in plain English on purpose. If anything here is unclear, ask us before you list or bid.
Swaxcar is a marketplace run by Webtronaut Innovations LLC. Car owners list classic cars they want converted to electric. Conversion shops bid for the work. We run the board, the bidding and the deposit holding described below. We do not convert cars ourselves, and we are not a party to the conversion contract between an owner and a shop. That contract is between the two of you, on the terms of the winning bid.
Listing a car needs a free owner account. Bidding needs a free shop account. Use a real email address, because your account, your listings and your bids all hang off it. You are responsible for what happens under your login. One person or business, one account. Business listings in our directory are unclaimed profiles until the business claims them with its own password, and claiming a profile makes you responsible for what it says.
List only a car you own or are authorised to sell a conversion for. Describe it honestly: year, model, condition, what works and what does not. A listing stays open for bids for 7 days. You may set a budget to guide bidders, but a budget is a guide, not a promise to accept any bid. You choose the winner, or no winner at all. If you pick a winner, you are entering a real job with that shop at that price, so pick like you mean it.
A bid is a real offer: a price, a delivery time, a battery size, a range figure and a warranty, in the currency of the listing. Bid only what you can actually deliver, with the parts, labour, shipping arrangements and inspection costs you describe in your notes. If your bid wins and the owner confirms, you have the job at that price. Repeatedly winning and walking away gets an account closed.
Listing is free. Bidding is free. The winning shop pays Swaxcar a fee of 10% of the winning bid, with a minimum of $49 (scaled to the listing currency), and only when it wins and gets paid. There are no monthly plans and no charge to owners for listing.
When an owner picks a winner, a deposit of 10% of the winning bid is held on the platform before work starts. The deposit is released to the shop in four stages as photo-proof checkpoints pass: engine and gearbox out (20%), motor and controller mounted (30%), battery fitted and first power-on (30%), and road test done with the car driving electric (20%). If a checkpoint sits unconfirmed for 48 hours after the shop posts its proof, it counts as confirmed. Read this part twice: while the platform is in its early launch phase, payments and deposits are recorded and tracked inside Swaxcar only, and no real money moves through the site. When live payments switch on, this page will say so clearly before anyone is asked to pay anything.
The shop is responsible for doing the conversion safely and legally, including any inspection or certification the car's country or state requires: a BAR referee inspection for 1976-or-newer cars in California, TÜV individual approval in Germany, the DVLA route in the UK, an engineer's certificate in Australia, LVV certification in New Zealand, and type-approved kits fitted by authorised installers in India. The owner is responsible for delivering the car as described and for collecting it when the job is done. Shipping arrangements are whatever the winning bid says they are: included, extra, or arranged by the owner.
The scan gives a rough cost breakdown from the details you type in. It is an estimate to help owners and shops talk about the same numbers. It is not a quote, not a valuation and not a promise about what any conversion will cost.
No fake listings, no shill bidding, no contacting users to cut the platform out of a deal that started here, no scraping the directory, and no using Swaxcar to advertise unrelated services. We can remove listings, bids and accounts that break these rules, and we will warn first unless the behaviour is plainly dishonest.
Swaxcar provides the marketplace as it stands. We work to keep it accurate and online, but we do not guarantee any shop's work, any owner's car, or any outcome of a conversion. Disputes about the work itself are between the owner and the shop. Disputes about a deposit held by the platform come to us first and we will review the checkpoint proof from both sides before deciding. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
If these terms change in a way that affects a live job, we will say so on this page and the new version applies from the date shown at the top. Questions about these terms: write to info@webtronaut.com.
These terms are a plain-English statement of how the marketplace works. They have not been reviewed by a lawyer yet, and they are not legal advice.