Summary

I've always been interested in electric cars, ever since being involved in the Battery Vehicle Society in the 80's racing home made electric cars around various kart and bike tracks for hours, seeing who could go the furthest on 2 car batteries.

Many years have passed since then but more recently I leased a Nissan Leaf through my companies green car scheme for 2 years. Leaf's aren't exactly the best looking cars and living with a car with a range of 70 miles can be frustrating, but the feeling of driving something now which we will all be driving in the future was great. The pull from a standing start, continuous acceleration and lack of maintenance is great, unfortunately some EV's are slow or people drive them slowly, but they don't need to be. I also got to drive a Tesla Model S, without doubt the best car I've ever driven in every way, but unfortunately at cost few can afford.

I bought the Smart Roadster 4 years ago, I love the looks and the fun handling but ever since owning it I've though this car should be electric. So after a lot of thought, a lot of searching for parts and too much time seeing what other people have done, it's time to make a proper start on planning the conversion.

Finding good information on conversions that have been done so far is quite difficult, so I figure I should try and document it properly in case anyone else might be interested. I've never blogged before but I'm assuming this will be the best way to do it.. time will tell. I hope you find it useful and interesting.