Bastiaan en Lily's blog

Well sorry to say, little about family today, I want to blog about something entirely different.
I''ve been passionate about cars for most of my adult life, driven around circuits the last few years and tinkered around with them loads too.
Some time ago I started reading into electric cars. Not because I''m such an eco friendly guy, far from it, my interest was mostly fueled, well simply by interest when I ran into the subject. Electric cars just seemed like a neat novel idea (while its for from novel turns out, they''ve been around for well over a century).
In the last year or so however I''ve been taking this more and more serious and really started reading up on the subject. I was amazed to find there is a large community out there who are actively building electric cars and have been doing so for many years. I was also amazed to find that the technology and knowladge to undertake such a project has been around for decades as well. Its been since the early nineteens that battery technology, which seems to have been the #1 reason to not go down the electric route seems to have caught up enough to make electric cars as usable as a normal petrol car for commuter driving. Since recently advances in lithium based batteries, all though currently still on the expensive side for the car hobbiest, have even brought electric cars really into competition with their petrol based brothers.
Now I''m far from starting my own conversion project, right now me and Lily are concentrating hard on getting our lives up and running here in Australia, it''ll be awhile before I start getting into such expensive hobbies again (but one can dream right).
Still, there is loads of cool stuff out there and I''m sure to be following it more and more closely. Also here in Australia electric car enthousiasts seem to be a well represented bunch, so thats pretty cool too :)
Here is atleast one link that really struck me that any car nut would enjoy: http://www.evcapri.com/