Time for another EV progress video.
In this quick video I cover the strip down of the project car to remove the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) drivetrain. There’s also a couple of interludes where I visit:
- Fully Charged Show,
- Caterham Seven EV launch,
- Goodwood,
- the Taffia Fish and Chip Run and
- the Chipping Sodbury Classic Car Run
And finally I weigh all the parts I’ve taken off with the ICE drivetrain.
The Too Long Bit
It’s taking way too long to get these videos out. What with all the design work for the EV and the regular business of life, I’m not getting much time to work on these progress videos. Hopefully that can change a bit over the next few months, but there’s a ton of progress to get caught up on, so we’ll have to see how that pans out!
That goes some way to explaining why I’ve added all the road trips to this video. I had planned on making videos of each trip, but I just don’t have the time. We’ll see if people like this format, but I actually expect very little in the way of comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In the end the strip down was pretty straightforward, the engine went to a friend who’s got a radical futuristic plan for a hybrid ICE/EV project. The gearbox went to a Caterham and Lotus Seven Club Speed Championship runner. He’s already using a 6-speed but wanted a spare while he tweaks one or other box.
I’m keeping the rest of the parts, either as something I might use in the EV project (i.e. radiator) or as spare for my 420 (radiator, exhaust, etc).
As for creating the video. This was a simple one. It’s soooooo much easier to create a talking heads a-roll with b-roll clips I’ve already recorded. The learning point here though, is to record more video when I’m doing stuff. I have a tendency to just grab a quick still of something, but it would make my YouTube editing so much easier if I had just a few seconds of video of whatever I’m doing.
There are 297 items in this timeline… images, video clips, audio, titles, effects etc etc. Quite a small project for me. Probably 30 to 40 hours of work making this video (including writing a script, recording the a-roll and doing the editing).
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