joeriv
Well-known member
This is a great story about how a Nissan Leaf (30 kwhr) made the first-ever trip across Africa in an electric car.
“From Cape Town, South Africa to Poland, in a first generation Nissan Leaf, 100% electric, unmodified car with 30 kWh battery and a range of around 200 km on a single charge. A trip that lasted 97 days (the African part of the trip) and for which I had been preparing for well over a year. In this day and age of economic living and awareness, we have recently seen the rise of electric cars. But this change in many parts of the world remains slow, and awareness of the advantages of EVs is still overshadowed by a general distrust of anything new.
With this in mind, as well as a strong desire to challenge myself on unexplored grounds, I wanted to put to the test a standard electric car, and put it through its paces, specifically in Africa. The challenge was to find out whether or not it would be possible to drive such a car across this great continent.”
http://electric-explorer.com/index....rticleid=13&cntnt01origid=2&cntnt01returnid=4
“From Cape Town, South Africa to Poland, in a first generation Nissan Leaf, 100% electric, unmodified car with 30 kWh battery and a range of around 200 km on a single charge. A trip that lasted 97 days (the African part of the trip) and for which I had been preparing for well over a year. In this day and age of economic living and awareness, we have recently seen the rise of electric cars. But this change in many parts of the world remains slow, and awareness of the advantages of EVs is still overshadowed by a general distrust of anything new.
With this in mind, as well as a strong desire to challenge myself on unexplored grounds, I wanted to put to the test a standard electric car, and put it through its paces, specifically in Africa. The challenge was to find out whether or not it would be possible to drive such a car across this great continent.”
http://electric-explorer.com/index....rticleid=13&cntnt01origid=2&cntnt01returnid=4
