Category: Innovation
how to move a heritage electric trolleybus you can’t drive within 48 hours
It started with a 5pm text from Drakey, who runs Middlesex Mill just down the road. “Hi. Just noticed this old tram bus on Grays. Thought you might be interested. Problem is the auction ends in 2 hours!” I couldn’t help myself, of course. It was a beautiful old thing, […]
How the first train carriages came to spark placemaking
Forget travel to exotic climes. The glorious winter sun is streaming in the carriage windows, adorned with views of Stellar Violets garden, and thousands of apple trees giving over to slumber. Bright red steel baggage racks give bold architectural lines to the interiors. It’s flush with old red carpet floors, […]
2014 WAVE Electric Vehicle Festival, Stuttgart
Coming face to face with a stuffed horse was not what I had expected at Europe’s biggest gathering of electric vehicle enthusiasts. We were in Germany, and likely to see a world record broken, when over 500 electric vehicles gathered together in Stuttgart. Having just converted the Stellar Violets ute […]
Electric Dream Come True: 100% Electric Farm Ute
Living in Electric Dreams: How it feels having built a 100% Electric Farm Ute To start off, there’s a fun little button between the seats that you flick to green or red. Green means forward, red is reverse. I feel so Marty McFly / Back to the Future every time […]