{"id":1335,"date":"2011-11-30T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T07:13:48","slug":"a-varley-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/a-varley-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Varley Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people switch off when they read about electric cars. They\u2019re all over in the USA, aren\u2019t they? Or they\u2019re just concept cars that turn up to make a manufacturer look good at a big motor show. We just can\u2019t get straight electric cars over here in Australia at the moment, and those who are interested in sustainable motoring and alternative fuels have to make do with hybrid cars (and probably feel very grateful for their Toyota Prius<\/a> and Honda Civic<\/a> hybrids.
\nWell, that\u2019s about to change. Varley is getting in on the act. Varley may be quite an old Australian company that was originally founded in 1886 and has been involved in all sorts of engineering projects (including marine, defence force, rail and more) for quite some time. However, now Varley is producing Australia\u2019s first-ever all-electric supercar, the evR450.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Varley evR450 first made a rather tentative appearance at the Electric Vehicle Conference held in Brisbane in mid-October 2011 and the makers have been surprised at how much interest has been shown in this vehicle. Maybe they shouldn\u2019t have been so surprised \u2013 electric cars and hybrid cars are very sexy in automotive design (and this isn\u2019t the only place that electric-powered transport is a hot topic: aviation is another area where the engineers are breaking new ground to get a battery-powered plane off the ground).
\nThe Varley evR450 does quite well in the supercar stakes, as it can do the nought-to-100 sprint in a very, very respectable 3.8 seconds, which can beat the figures of some other Aussie-built supercars such as the HSV<\/a> and FPV<\/a>. Its top speed is a nippy 200 km\/h, and it can do anything between 150 and 300 km to the battery pack, depending on the type of battery pack under the bonnet.
\nHowever, while the Varley evR450 is the first real passenger-style car to be launched on the Australian market, this isn\u2019t the first electric vehicle that Varley have manufactured. Varley already make a number of small electric runabouts that you may well have seen in action. If you\u2019ve seen some of those dinky tugs on wheels at airports pulling the baggage carts and the like, the chances are that it\u2019s a Varley and it\u2019s probably electric. Varley also make those little buses that take people on tours around parks and botanical gardens. Have a look on the back of one of those vehicles next time you see one to see if the Varley logo\u2019s on the back. And have a listen and a sniff, too: can you smell fuel burning? And is the motor quiet?
\nThe Varley evR450 will officially hit the roads in Queensland in January 2012, which isn\u2019t far off. At the moment, they\u2019re not sure how many units are going to produce for sale, and they\u2019re going to wait and see what the demand\u2019s like (which means that it won\u2019t be listed in Private Fleet\u2019s car reviews<\/a> for the moment, and this post is the best you\u2019re going to get for now). The Varley evR450 is aimed at the luxury car end of the market, and will cost about $200,000. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-next.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people switch off when they read about electric cars. They\u2019re all over in the USA, aren\u2019t they? Or they\u2019re just concept cars that turn up to make a manufacturer look good at a big motor show. We just can\u2019t get straight electric cars over here in Australia at the moment, and those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14945,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/14945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}