The Caterham EV Seven is our kind of electric car.
At the heart of the Caterham EV Seven’s familiar chassis sits a 51-kWh battery pack, of which 40-kWh are usable to the driver. That's a larger buffer than you might find in other EVs comes down to the fact that Caterham expects this machine to spend almost all of its time on the track, where quick runs through the charge cycle are an inevitability. The buffer helps to protect battery life over the long term with that specific high-performance use case.
The powertrain itself was co-developed with Swindon Powertrain, a company that provides immersion-cooled battery packs for both roadgoing and . Caterham expects the EV Seven to be capable of 0-60 mph runs in the 4.0-second range. The EV also comes bolstered by hardware from the Seven 420 Cup, including a limited-slip differential and adjustable Bilstein dampers.With such a small battery pack to work with, the team at Caterham had to get creative in the charging department. The automaker says it should only take about 15 minutes to top up the car’s battery after a 20-minute track session.
Now it is important to note that Caterham doesn’t currently have plans to put the EV Seven into production. This particular car will instead serve as a testbed for the possibility of electrification in the future alongside Swindon Powertrain. That said, the automaker does have plans to unveil an entirely differentBorn and raised in Metro Detroit, associate editor Lucas Bell has spent his entire life surrounded by the automotive industry.
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