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The Pan-American Highway

Driving the car on the road!

SRZero speeding past!

Dear All, I have to apologise for the general lack of blog posting with regard to the car, but we do have a good excuse!  The car drives so nicely that all we’ve been doing over the last week or so is just driving it here, there and everywhere!  It’s quite an exhilarating experience cruising [...]

Planning the trip!

So with just over a month to go you might be wondering how things are going on the logistics front! Well all kinds of things are going on behind the scenes. The car and equipment will be flown to Alaska toward the end of June, generously sorted out by our friends at Hellmann Logistics, with [...]

RGE energises up with Ubershot!

Today was a great day for just one simple reason…20 crates of Ubershot arrived for the team! “What’s Ubershot?”, I hear you ask.  Well, both myself and the entire RGE team will testify to Ubershot being the best energy shot out there.  There are plenty of companies that have come out with various forms of energy [...]

Getting Road Approval for the SRZero

Today was a big day for the project so far: the Radical SRZero, the car we have worked so hard on in the past 7 months, was due to be assessed for road worthiness. A test called IVA (Individual Vehicle Approval) had to be passed. All cars that are not mass produced series type approved [...]

Beautiful day, beautiful drive

Everyone doing their bit while the car's on the dyno

For anyone in England on April 8th 2010, you will know of the beautiful weather we had on this day, and how it seemed to categorically signal the end of winter, and the start of those glorious summer days which seem forever just around the corner. So, it was in this extremely buoyant and optimistic [...]

SRZero Gets Some New Wheels!

New rims on the car and in the foreground

Another few days have passed and yet more has happened in the world of Racing Green Endurance! On Wednesday 22nd we took the car back up to Peterborough to put the final touches to the car and to put the car through some testing on Radical’s dynamometer. So, over the last few days we have [...]

The car runs!

Front pose

If there was ever a blog entry that I have wanted to write more than this one, I certainly can’t think of it! At 1.10am 21st March, the SRZero drove under its own power for the very first time! However, soon after, we ran into problems with electromagnetic interference (EMI) and had to take the [...]

Sponsored Loadbank

Hillstone Loadbanks kindly agreed to sponsoring RGE with one of their 55kW DC loadbanks.

KPMG Come on Board

RGE Team Presnting to KPMG at the House of Lords

RGE would like to welcome KPMG as our second Gold Sponsor. Read on to discover how the team went to the Houses of Parliament in our quest for sponsorship.

Sponsorship from Continental AG

At the beginning of this week Nik and I went to pick up our long awaited tyres which were kindly sponsored to us by Continental AG, a well known and respected developer of technology all around the world. They also agreed to sponsor us with €9,000 of cash as well thereby helping out the project’s [...]

USHUAIA
26,500 km done!
November 03, 2011
46
Rio Grande
November 03, 2011
5th
November
All day
RAC Future Car Challenge
Brighton to London
9th
November
All day
NIDays London
National Instruments