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"Tucked away in a small industrial park in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton
South is EVolution. A five-person team is working away at several top-secret
automotive projects, unbeknownst to most of the country.
The company was born of a random passion project in 2015, which saw director
Russell Shepherd convert his own Audi A3 to electric drive in the absence of
other appealing options on the local market.
"At the time, there just wasn't really anything on the market that I wanted to
drive, so I figured I'd convert that," Shepherd explains to CarAdvice.
"That was the first model I personally did with some help from a friend. We
soon figured out it was a pretty expensive thing to do, so decided to spin a
company to fund that called EVolution, and we quickly worked out there was a
demand for charging equipment and advice too."
When the charging side of the business took off, the conversions fell to the
wayside, until an ageing blog post on the A3 conversion caught the eye of
someone wanting to convert a couple of classic Land Rovers to electric cars.
"They approached us, we said 'sure' and we completed those vehicles, which then
kicked off increased interest in conversion," Shepherd recalls.
Since then, enquiries have been steadily increasing, with the team completing
six electric vehicle conversions so far, with seven more currently in progress
– and plans to expand even further."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
