Rugged https://refractor.io/tag/rugged/ Rugged en-AU Thu, 24 May 2012 01:34:55 GMT Frenchman Xavier Chevrin begins 3,000-mile African EV adventure https://refractor.io/environment/frenchman-xavier-chevrin-begins-3-000-mile-african-ev-adventure/ Xavier Chevrin recently began a journey through Africa in an electric Citroën Berlingo to demonstrate the reliability and energy efficiency of electric vehicles under extreme conditions

Xavier Chevrin is no stranger to extended EV adventures. In 2008, he rode an electric scooter between Paris, France and Almaty in Kazakhstan, and two years later he set the record for the longest distance traveled in an electric vehicle by taking a Venturi-powered electric Citroën Berlingo van from Shanghai in China to Paris, notching up some 13,400 km (8,326 miles) in the process – but costing less than 200 dollars for the whole trip. Now he's set off on an African adventure that will take him from Nairobi to Johannesburg – a distance of around 4,800 km (just short of 3,000 miles) – in about six weeks, charging the vehicle as he stops to chat with locals along the way.

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