A Caterham Seven Blog

  • sEVen Tradoffs and Compromises

    sEVen Tradoffs and Compromises

    Post Views: 620 A cut down version of this post appeared in the December 2022 edition of Lowflying. This full version is a little more wordy but contains more detail, images and with hyperlinks. Putting the EV in sEVen – Part 2 : Conversion Tradeoffs With my sEVen conversion car now purchased, I’m well and truly…

  • It’s not Merchandise

    It’s not Merchandise

    Post Views: 538 Well I had to, didn’t I? It seemed such a great tag line “Putting the EV in sEVen” that I just had to get some T-shirts printed… and hoodies, polos and fleeces! 🤣 I used a local printing company called Carrillion here in Bristol. They were crazy busy but did manage to get…

  • sEVen Conversion – The Victim

    sEVen Conversion – The Victim

    Post Views: 624 Well it’s about time for an update. The victim has been purchased. After searching on and off for a couple of years, not particularly rigorously it must be said, I started looking seriously at the end of the summer (2022) for a “host” car to be the basis for my EV conversion.…

  • Putting the EV in sEVen – Index

    Putting the EV in sEVen – Index

    Post Views: 917 In this project we’re converting a Caterham Seven Supersport SV from being powered by an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), into one powered by an electric motor and batteries (BEV – Battery Electric Vehicle) This page is an index of articles relating to Putting the EV in sEVen. Putting the EV in sEVen…

  • Putting the EV in sEVen – Introduction

    Putting the EV in sEVen – Introduction

    Post Views: 974 And so it begins… We at the Purplemeanie HQ are quite into the whole eco-mentalist thing, with just about “electric everything” – solar PV, battery for solar, EV car, immersion heater solar overflow etc. So, a petrol Seven has sort of grated on my soul for a while. My 420R is something…

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