Category: Caterham Blog

  • 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…

  • 2021 Cadwell Park Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes

    2021 Cadwell Park Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes

    Post Views: 564 Aaaannnddd… Here’s another quick behind the scenes post about making my second Lotus Seven Club track day introduction video. If you want some background on what this is all about then this post has it all ( 2021 Castle Combe Track Day INTRO – Lotus Seven Club YouTube Video ), and so…

  • 2021 Castle Combe Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes

    2021 Castle Combe Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes

    Post Views: 1,397 When I joined the Lotus Seven Club leadership team as Social Video lead, one of the tasks I took on was to create introduction videos for the club’s Track Day program. Each year the Lotus Seven Club puts on 8 to 10 track days around various circuits in the UK. There’s a…