Archive for June, 2010

Anchorage, Picking up the RV

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Trip day 2 dawned bright and early, and despite very little sleep the night before, the team were buzzing with anticipation! There was a lot to do to prepare for the trip including picking up our motorhome rental, the car, all our equipment, and other last minute jobs. Before all this work could ...

Arriving in Anchorage

Trip Day 1. Today saw us complete our first full day of the trip, despite not actually driving the SRZero at all.  As part of our schedule and logistics planning, we had always allowed the first day of the trip to be getting ourselves organised, and we certainly needed it! First off, we went to the airport ...

Houston, we had a problem…

Alex blogging on the flight

For Racing Green Endurance, this blog post is certainly one of the most exciting! For a start, it’s being written at around 33,000ft as the team wings their way across the US mid-west to Anchorage, Alaska, thereby signifying the first day of our Pan-American trip! After a year and a half of hard ...

Flights booked! Continental Airlines, we need a favour…

As if we needed it, the team had another massive reality check as we booked out flights out to Anchorage, Alaska, and back from Buenos Aires in Argentina. Somehow, when the flights are booked, you have your e-ticket, and you know you have to be at Heathrow at 6.30am on June 28th, things become ...

Intense logistics organising

Logistics Planning

Despite the fact that we are leaving in 11 days time (it's still sinking in by the way!) there is still quite a bit of logistics work to do. But now that the car is working and engineering work has pretty much stopped, we have drafted in the engineers to help. See the ...

London–Paris:

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Wow, what a weekend the last few days have been! As Andy mentioned in the previous blog post, team RGE attempted to drive from London to Paris on Saturday on just one charge, and then head back on the Sunday after a full charge, some nice French food and wine, and a bit of ...

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RGE Team & BBC Electric Ride

After the successful M25 trip the RGE team decided it was time to try something a little more... international. That is why this weekend, we are going to attempt London to Paris on one charge, in another attempt to show the true potential of electric cars! We will be at the London Eye from 10:00am on ...