Team TeslaNL do Gumball full electric [interview]
Posted on 22-05-2015 at 13:27 by sir_smokalot – 39 Comments”
This weekend the 16th edition of the Gumball 3000, with 4 Dutch tenders, including Afrojack. For now, we will focus our look, however on a car that in terms of pk’s is equal to the Afrobolide: the bright orange P85D of TeamTeslaNL. We talked before with these participants.
Gumball this year is spread over Europe and the US: after the registration in Stockholm on the 23rd of may (if you’re lucky, you fix your an Uber ride in Jon Olssons RS6) is the 24th los in the direction of Oslo. Then Copenhagen done for the day after – on 26 may – to end in Amsterdam. That evening in the Amsterdam Arena a event of autoblog-gelegenheidspresentator Sjoerd van Stokkum planned, the day after the whole field with the plane to the west coast of the US, to San Francisco.
San Francisco is the 27th in the direction of L. A. driving, and the final stage ends (with or without a thick Hangover) in the city of glitter and glamour-Las Vegas.
Lewis Hamilton seems to be as previously reported participation to be canceled, he could not wear trousers and hat to find that his car would fit.
Team TeslaNL
Two occupants: Remy sr. and Remy, jr., respectively, 50 and 25 years old. Pa Remy and Jr take in specialist GPS security systems, and are engaged in the manufacture, delivery, monitoring, and detection thereof. Participation in the Gumball 3000 was already quite a few years on their Bucketlist, and sometimes covered the pieces in place, the advent of the P85D and the route through the Netherlands. Plus the challenging factor of being the first to try to get the entire rally electric through the “free” Tesla Supercharger to drive.
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The intention is that the whole piece is not only zero emissions is taken (which, in view of the lack of a combustion engine will work), but also that there is completely for free is ridden with for Teslarijders for free Supercharger juice. The 40,000-GBP registration fee is already expensive enough at the end of the account, although this does almost everything to get: ***** hotel packages, and flight plus car transport to SF. The return trip leaves the organization, the participants themselves, the participants from various corners of the world to come.
Background
Remy was never convinced elektrohead, but the Tesla pulled him in the realm of the batterijrijders. He is one of the very first outside of the U.S. with a P85D, and already has over 6,000 miles on the clock.
The entire race from start to finish, electrically driven, only the own P85D’t go to the US, but suggested a local contact in the USA, an identical Tesla available. First, to connectivity issues with the plugs, to prevent, and second, because maybe what’s weird to have a race full COIL to do, but the same vehicle or from Amsterdam to San Francisco to luchtbruggen. (carbon footprint much?)
Stickers is quite restricted: the main sponsors come on every car, you will get 2 pieces of 25×25 cm to itself to fill in with advertising for your own shop for example.
In total, 8 to 15 other participants of the tracking hardware of TeamTeslaNL, that we are the eccentricities of the cars on the foot should be able to follow through teamtesla.nl/Tracking.
Before the Tesla, there was also a Range Rover Sport. To compensate for the Tesla, have they at this time still a real Hummer H1/H2.