{"id":10884,"date":"2025-04-30T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:23:33","slug":"putting-the-ev-in-seven-progress-2-strip-down-and-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/putting-the-ev-in-seven-progress-2-strip-down-and-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the EV in sEVen &#8211; Progress #2 Strip Down and Weigh-in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Time for another EV progress video.<\/p>\n<p>In this quick video I cover the strip down of the project car to remove the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) drivetrain. There&#8217;s also a couple of interludes where I visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fully Charged Show,<\/li>\n<li>Caterham Seven EV launch,<\/li>\n<li>Goodwood,<\/li>\n<li>the Taffia Fish and Chip Run and<\/li>\n<li>the Chipping Sodbury Classic Car Run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally I weigh all the parts I&#8217;ve taken off with the ICE drivetrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><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\/4JUPxGOD8qg?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Too Long Bit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;m not getting much time to work on these progress videos. Hopefully that can change a bit over the next few months, but there&#8217;s a ton of progress to get caught up on, so we&#8217;ll have to see how that pans out!<\/p>\n<p>That goes some way to explaining why I&#8217;ve added all the road trips to this video. I had planned on making videos of each trip, but I just don&#8217;t have the time. We&#8217;ll see if people like this format, but I actually expect very little in the way of comment \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end the strip down was pretty straightforward, the engine went \u00a0to a friend who&#8217;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&#8217;s already using a 6-speed but wanted a spare while he tweaks one or other box.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>As for creating the video. This was a simple one. It&#8217;s soooooo much easier to create a talking heads a-roll with b-roll clips I&#8217;ve already recorded. The learning point here though, is to record more video when I&#8217;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&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"474\" data-attachment-id=\"10886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/putting-the-ev-in-seven-progress-2-strip-down-and-weigh-in\/fcp-timeline\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-scaled.png\" data-orig-size=\"2560,592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FCP Timeline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-2048x474.png\" src=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-2048x474.png\" alt=\"Final Cut Pro Timeline - Putting the EV in Seven Progress 2\" class=\"wp-image-10886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-2048x474.png 2048w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-600x139.png 600w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-768x178.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FCP-Timeline-1536x355.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final Cut Pro Timeline &#8211; Putting the EV in Seven Progress 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 297 items in this timeline&#8230; 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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[51,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caterham-blog","category-electric-vehicles","category-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PTEVIS4-001-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phg0Uj-2Py","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8125,"url":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/seven-index\/","url_meta":{"origin":10884,"position":0},"title":"Putting the EV in sEVen &#8211; Index","author":"John Martin","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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