ANNOUNCING: Interest Area - Electric Vehicles

Any thoughts about the packaging?

Jonathan

Jon, that image isn't of the new car. It's just something Autocar use as a placeholder for when they have something to say about it.

John

We have a Zoom call scheduled for next Tuesday at 8PM. If you're signed up to the EV SIG group in LoveAdmin then you'll have an email with the following discussion topics and the Zoom details. If you'd like to join the sig then it can be done in LoveAdmin by adding the EV Area to your account.... or... you can send me an email to ev@caterhamlotus7.club and I can add you in the admin system.

We've missed a month so we've got a lot to talk about again.

• We've recenly had news of Caterham's new EV project. Firstly there was a piece in Autocar saying how the new CC EV will be announced in the coming months. Perhaps that's not surprising, but they thought it was news worthy enough to put a piece out about it. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/caterham-electric-car-break-cover-imminently-radical-design
• Secondly, there was a press release form CC about them taking on Antony Jannerelly to lead the design of the new car. 
  • https://caterhamcars.com/en/news/caterham-welcomes-anthony-jannarelly-to-the-fold
  • https://www.jannarelly.com
• I've also had the chance to meet Bob and the CC leadership team on three occasions over the past few weeks. So there's lots to unpick about what they've said in public about EV and CC.
• On one of those encouters (totally coincidentally) I had the chance to tour around an EV drivetrain company (Equipmake) at their offices and factory in Norfolk. It wasn't appropriate to take pictures but I can give an update on the things I'm allowed to talk about.
• We've also had some interesting news on new battery tech coming out over the next year or so, this could be a game changer. https://youtu.be/YtZkohZRE_s
• There's another EV article coming out in the May LF, which hopefully will have hit doorsteps by the time we meet and I can answer questions raised in that
• Finally, I can update everyone on where I'm at with my project. Since the last meeting I've got my project car MOT'ed and road registered through DVLA. There's been a lot of progress and plans are now firming up for my route forwards.

Interesting article on the Autocar Web site ref the Swindon powered EV Caterham.

From Caterham in collaboration with Swindon Powertrain Ltd

I was at the event with Matt Prior from Autocar and John Barker from Evo. You can find the press release repeated here. And a thread to discuss it here.

John