Racing Green Endurance SRZero Electric Car to Make 16,000 Mile Trip
The Racing Green Endurance Team has transformed the Radical Sportscars’ SR8 production car(which set the track record for a production vehicle at Nrburgring In Germany) into an all-electric supercar and intend to make a trip from northern Alaska to the bottom tip of South America to show the world its abilities. The SRZero provides an EPA 248 mile range per charge which is just over the Tesla Roadster’s 224 mile range, so it is expected to go more than 300 miles per charge in actuality. I for one look forward to finding out its exact numbers come July when the 16,000 mile run takes place as it will be a huge accomplishment for an electric production car.
Want to show that electric cars can be practical in day-to-day living? Take one on an impossibly long trip and show the world. That’s the plan for the Racing Green Endurance team, centered at Imperial College London, which will be taking its SRZero electric car along 26,000km (16,000 miles) of the Pan-American Highway, starting in northern Alaska and driving all the way down to Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of South America. Their car is a repurposed Radical SR8, once a back-breakingly quick two-seat prototype with a curb weight of just 1,433lbs and a rollicking 363 V8 in the back. That lump has been displaced by a pair of Axial Flux electric motors, producing a combined peak of 386hp, though their batteries conspire to nearly double the car’s initial weight to 2,600lbs. Still, a 248 mile range is predicted on the EPA cycle, and since you can eke out 300 in a Tesla Roadster (224 mile EPA-rated range), 350 might just be possible here. We’ll find out in July, when the trip begins.
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