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You're right, they did - I wonder what happened to that money? I note that GBS are following in Caterham's footsteps - lot of their cars seem to be factory builds now. The FB page is full of carbon fibre this and that with money being thrown at builds (yes, I'm jealous)...

I believe GBS were given a government grant a couple of years ago to design and build an electric kit car. Haven't heard anything since, so maybe they filed it under 'too difficult' ?

it can and has been done before. You might find this build on the westfield forum interesting: https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/121032-the-fastest-accelerating-westfield-in-the-world-the-megawatt/

Has been done before, when I first went to Stoneleigh kit car show a few years ago now there was an electric car using lead acid battery's, I beliver you have a couple of options, Mount motor to gearbox and use gears, Mount to rear dif or direct to wheel, lastly being the better option but might need 2 motors. Will need to get LIFP04 batteries, these come in different form factors.so depending where you going to place them. Would need to pick your motor size and voltage, then speed controller for the motor then match the batteries to the motor, Would suspect you will need to be up in the 110vdc to 200vdc range to keep the current down so you haven't got 1 ton of cabling Would recommend doing plenty of research on it, would be an interesting project