{"id":11580,"date":"2026-07-23T17:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:36:08","slug":"electric-fun-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/electric-fun-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Fun in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quickie for this one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A local Club member popped over to the local meet for the first time a couple of months ago (even though he&#8217;d been an owner for 30 years) and as we got talking he explained about his electric karts&#8230; and offered for me to have a play one day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well as you can imagine, I took him up on the offer. To demonstrate, here&#8217;s a quick 90 second waste of your life that you&#8217;ll never get back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJIh7lawUIk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Electric Fun Karting in the Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew has converted these standard go-karts with bigger wheels and sprockets, but also an electric drive-train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kit is mostly from China and is comprised of a 7kW motor, motor controller and battery management system. There&#8217;s Lithium batteries giving about a 90 minute run time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The motor runs on 72V and there&#8217;s also an HV to 12V DCDC that powers lights for night driving&#8230; definitely need to try that some time \ud83e\udd23 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew says the karts are good for about 50kmh and I can well believe it after an hour of hooning around his meadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quickie for this one. A local Club member popped over to the local meet for the first time a couple of months ago (even though he&#8217;d been an owner for 30 years) and as we got talking he explained about his electric karts&#8230; and offered for me to have a play one day.&nbsp; Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,51,38,29,26],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blat","category-caterham-blog","category-electric-vehicles","category-upgrades","category-youtube","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Electric-Go-Kartin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yl38-30M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/first-test-drives\/","url_meta":{"origin":11580,"position":0},"title":"First Test Drives","author":"John Martin","date":"March 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Pre-build Caterham 420R post covering early test drives and impressions before committing to the kit-build project.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Caterham 420R Build&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Caterham 420R Build","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/category\/caterham-blog\/caterham-420r-build\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8125,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/seven-index\/","url_meta":{"origin":11580,"position":1},"title":"Putting the EV in sEVen &#8211; 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