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On the 21st May with my African LEAF, I reached the edge of Africa and completed the first ever overland trip through this great continent in a full electric vehicle. I hope you will all enjoy this short video. 🙂 Please share it to show that something that may seem impossible, can be accomplished with determination and become a reality. 14 African countries visited. 15176 kilometres. 97 days on the road. 100 charges. 1425 kWh used ( promise to post more stats and trip summary very soon ) Photography: Albert Wójtowicz & Arkady Fiedler, edited by KamKam Visuals
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Now that is a Grand Tour, excellent story and video. Also at UK prices the power used would have cost about £230, however, I guess you managed to get free charging along the way, either way it was far cheaper than using an ICE vehicle. How was the range anxiety though?
Hi Steve, most of the time I paid for the electricity used just to be fair to the people who shared it with me. It wasn't expensive and costed around 200 euros. Compering to my classic Fiat 126 which I drove from Egypt to South Africa in 2014 it was...
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Thank you :)
Good job. =)
You're made one of the amazing and wonderful work. I can't describe my feeling with some words. You should realise many episodes on your trips.
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