Yes, no problem to putting them on. My Elise can be found on www.evalbum.com/1454 but is rather out of date now. My Vortex was in the Kit Car mag in 2013 and both have done the "RAC's Future Car Challenge" event of 2010 to 2012 until it was cancelled.

Hi, I am in the Leicestershire area. Before the Vortex build, I purchased a Cerbera and drove it in ICE form for a while. I hated driving it. It handled awful and the forward vision was lousy. Luckily I sold it for a profit. The Elise though is a superb drive and better in EV form. The gearbox was like stirring a pudding and is now locked in 3rd I think. I'm using an ex Ford Ranger Siemens motor (of which I have a couple spare) and Siemens 6SV traction inverters specifically designed for cars which date from 1995. Very advanced for their time with built in DC-DC power supplies but unobtainable now. The Elise cost me £7,000 in 2007 but you can't buy a written off one for that price now. Wish I had bought a stash of them then. Regarding batteries on the Elise which is a small car. I have most in the luggage area at the rear, 30 cells in the petrol tank which is accessed underneath and there is space in the front area which I used with my first set of cells (they are smaller now) for another ten or so. You can hide around 100 50 or 60Ah cells which gives a range of at least 60 miles.

Hi, I have built a Lotus Elise EV (2008) and Vortex GTEV (2012) from a kit along with a Ducati based EV bike so have a bit of an idea about building an EV. The main thing you must ensure is that the car to be converted must have as much rectangular space as possible for the batteries. There are many different dimentions of cells so once you have the space (or spaces as you can split the cells in to more than one bank), you can choose the supplier and format of the cells. Running an EV is very inexpensive but building one isn't. They are expensive to build and you can save money on the drive motor and electronics but buy the best batteries you can afford. The drive unit is easy to change but batteries on an EV will make or break the driveability of it. The BMS (battery monitoring system) is another essential part. I can recomment Orion as both my cars have them. Do not even consider keeping the clutch and the gearbox will not need 5 gears, just one which is probably 3rd or 4th. Electric motors have no problem pulling away in those ratios. These days I would recommend using a drive unit such as Leaf or possibly a Tesla. I have used a drive unit Ford were using on their Connect EV vans from Azure Dynamics which still may be available from the odd supplier on Ebay. Just a few words to start you off. I will add my profile later to the site. Cheers Russ