Electric car race - old style distance event
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London - Edinburgh - Cardiff Who can post the quickest time?
Any one as a start but you have to visit each and end where you started only using purely electric vehicle and with only publicly available chargers.
No defined route but you must share your full route telemetry and possibly full video to prevent cheating and no speeding on public highways probably means this avoids the racing on public roads laws.
It is just under 1,000 miles so beyond most fully electric cars at the moment. This means recharging and driving styles come into play. We can up it to two or three loops if things go well for range.
There will be an annual prize to encourage people to keep improving and to account for improved infrastructure.
Suggestions and ideas on this basic concept welcome. Also anyone who wants to put up £1,000,000 prize money can contact me privately
Any one as a start but you have to visit each and end where you started only using purely electric vehicle and with only publicly available chargers.
No defined route but you must share your full route telemetry and possibly full video to prevent cheating and no speeding on public highways probably means this avoids the racing on public roads laws.
It is just under 1,000 miles so beyond most fully electric cars at the moment. This means recharging and driving styles come into play. We can up it to two or three loops if things go well for range.
There will be an annual prize to encourage people to keep improving and to account for improved infrastructure.
Suggestions and ideas on this basic concept welcome. Also anyone who wants to put up £1,000,000 prize money can contact me privately
I believe that the Guinness Book of Records people have a set of official records for such things (eg. New York to LA cannonball style) but they track the charging time not moving time, so there's no incentive to speed.
Obviously once someone does it non-stop then that's the record done forever.
Obviously once someone does it non-stop then that's the record done forever.
It's interesting but you can model it pretty well on abetterrouteplanner.com - it works out the most efficient route, charging speeds, etc. "Publically available" = available to all, ie no Tesla Superchargers?
Spoiler: a Telsa Model 3 LR or Model S Raven LR is sub 18 hours overall (assuming starting full and using superchargers).
Lack of non-Tesla super fast charging is the biggest problem for others, and hopefully will change in time. Big battery Taycan over 19 hours, same for Audi eTron (assuming you don't have to wait at the smaller capacity stations), Kona/eNiro nearly 21 hours.
Spoiler: a Telsa Model 3 LR or Model S Raven LR is sub 18 hours overall (assuming starting full and using superchargers).
Lack of non-Tesla super fast charging is the biggest problem for others, and hopefully will change in time. Big battery Taycan over 19 hours, same for Audi eTron (assuming you don't have to wait at the smaller capacity stations), Kona/eNiro nearly 21 hours.
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