I’m not as smart as her I have a masters she has a PhD, my daughter is in an MD program in Munich. I make more money than my PhD wife but as far as intellect goes the women in my life do out match me.
There’s a Canadian gent on jeep forum.com converting a CJ5 to electric that you might want to check out. He’s using pretty standard industrial stuff to do the conversion and it looks like it’s going pretty well for him, a welder and math can get you a long way in an EV conversion
The US Army Corps of Engineers have been designing, building, and maintaining public infrastructure for a very long time now.