{"id":244,"date":"2009-10-11T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-10-11T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:21:00","slug":"canberra-ev-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2009\/10\/11\/canberra-ev-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra EV Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October the 4th Canberra hosted an <a href=\"http:\/\/canberraev.org\/page27\/page27.html\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Vehicle festival<\/a> on the grounds of old parliament house.\u00c2\u00a0 At the show was a complete range of Electric and Electric assist vehicles (hybrid).\u00c2\u00a0 Two old Detroit Electric cars at one extreme and a Tesla Roadster at the other.\u00c2\u00a0 Along with the large companies showing off their almost electric Hybrid cars (actually not at all electric, they still get all their energy from petrol) there was a great collection of home conversion cars.\u00c2\u00a0 I met, in person some people and cars that I had researched on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Really has got me thinking&#8230; it would not be that hard to pull together the gear for an electric bike.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course I might have to learn how to, weld, cut metal and design stuff&#8230; also a shed full of tools might help, don&#8217;t have many of them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it was fun and inspirational, here are a few links to get you going..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canberraev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canberra EV group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aeva.asn.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Electric Vehicle Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evcapri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EV-Capri<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theelectriccarcompany.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Electric Car Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/enginewhisperer.com\/wp\/?cat=5\" target=\"_blank\">The Engine Whisperer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.converturcar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Convert Ur Car<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evworks.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">EV Works<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope this inspires you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October the 4th Canberra hosted an Electric Vehicle festival on the grounds of old parliament house.\u00c2\u00a0 At the show was a complete range of Electric and Electric assist vehicles (hybrid).\u00c2\u00a0 Two old Detroit Electric cars at one extreme and a Tesla Roadster at the other.\u00c2\u00a0 Along with the large companies showing off their almost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2009\/10\/11\/canberra-ev-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canberra EV Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Canberra","category-Cars","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}