{"id":9,"date":"2023-05-13T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:27:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Electric Vehicle Technology was established in 1985 by John &amp; Kerry Hill to develop and promote Electric Vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We ran the National Secretariat for the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA) for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We participated in AEVA &#8220;Electrathon&#8221; events with &#8220;The Flying Kayak&#8221; and &#8220;The Dart&#8221;.\u00a0 These fun vehicles were primitive test beds for developing techniques to improve efficiency and safety of practical EVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar PV panels were installed on our farm shed in 2007 so we could reduce our dependence on fossil generated electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar hot water using Apricus Evacuated Tube technology was installed on our house in 2008 to further reduce electricity usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013 a Nissan Leaf was purchased for John&#8217;s daily commute to his job in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was released in 2014 and became Kerry&#8217;s farm vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gradually battery electric farm equipment was introduced to retire old petrol gear.\u00a0 Battery chainsaws, pole saw, brushcutters, mowers &amp; blowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Husqvarna released their &#8220;Rider Battery&#8221; mower in 2016 so John replaced his old petrol slasher.\u00a0 It was so successful he soon bought a second one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our son, Ashley, placed his order for a Tesla Model 3 in 2017 and received one of the first to be delivered in Australia mid 2019.\u00a0 John bought his Tesla Model 3 later that year and our daughter Pauline took over the Nissan Leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cybertruck was also unveiled in 2019 so both Ashley and John were quick to put in their pre-orders.\u00a0 We expect it will not be available in Australia until at least 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Vehicle Technology was established in 1985 by John &amp; Kerry Hill to develop and promote Electric Vehicles. We ran the National Secretariat for the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA) for many years. We participated in AEVA &#8220;Electrathon&#8221; events with &#8220;The Flying Kayak&#8221; and &#8220;The Dart&#8221;.\u00a0 These fun vehicles were primitive test beds for developing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evtech.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}