We made it!!! 🍾🍾🍾
We arrived in Tarifa at 23:02 on 12 June 2017 , 58 minutes ahead of target and 3 days 23 hours and 2 minutes after leaving Nordkapp, thus setting an unprecedented world record in an electric car.
What an adventure. The trip of a lifetime. 6279 kilometers, through 7 countries in 95 hours and 2 minutes, without using one single drop of gasoline.
What?
Girls-only world record
“4 girls. 4 days. 0 emissions” is the first ever girls-only world record in an electric car. The record consists in crossing Europe from Nordkapp (Norway) to Tarifa (Spain) in less than 4 days. 100% electric. The record has been organized by a young luxembourghish start-up: The Car’tell and carried out in a TESLA Model S P85+. The team was composed of Marie Guerre, Sascha Bloemhoff, Paule Kiénert and Sandra Heinisch (who could not participate due to medical reasons) (more on Team 4.4.0).
Starting at precisely midnight on 9th June in Nordkapp, Norway, the girls drove non-stop down to Tarifa in Spain where they arrived at 23:02 on 12th June, 58 minutes ahead of the deadline set for midnight. The total distance covered was 6279 kilometers crossing 7 countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Spain), the longest distance ever performed in under 4 days in an electric car. In total they stopped 35 times to recharge the batteries of their TESLA for a total charging time below 19 hours. They saved over 1 ton of CO2 compared to the same trip in a regular petrol-powered car. This is equivalent to the CO2 absorption power of 50 trees over 1 year.
Why?
The logic behind the madness
More?
The nitty gritty details of the record
The route
Charging:
Indirect CO2 emissions in each country: *
Norway
7 kgs CO2
Sweden
3 kgs CO2
Denmark
18 kgs CO2
Germany
70 kgs CO2
Luxembourg
22 kgs CO2
France
11 kgs CO2
Spain
58 kgs CO2
* calculated based on electricity consumed by charging the car (source: Sunearth Tools)
Who?
Team 4.4.0.
Nationality: French
Favorite car: 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing Coupé
Quote: “There are three kind of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wondered what happened.”
Car trivia: Co-founder of The Car’tell, Luxembourg’s only Private Members Club for car lovers. <a href=”https://www.resumeslivres.fr/”>Loves reading.</a>
Nationality: Dutch
Favorite car: Toyota Landcruiser HDJ80
Quote: “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing you are not innovating enough”-Elon Musk
Car trivia: Team Captain and pilot of the first ever all female rally team to participate in extreme desert rallys (http://www.lesgazelles.nl/). Teamwinner of the Low Car Diet 2015 (www.lowcardiet.nl), developed SNS Bank’s 100% electric mobility approach.
Nationality: French
Favorite car: Mini Cooper S Mk1
Quote: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
Car trivia: Racing her Classic Mini Cooper S in Trophée Maxi 1000 and VHC (Véhicules Historiques de Compétition).
Not present: Unfortunately Sandra hurt herself whilst training a couple of days before the record attempt and was not part of the winning team.
Nationality: Luxembourgish
Favorite car: Jaguar E-type
Quote: “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”
Car trivia: Secretary of the commission for historic vehicles at Automobile Club Luxembourg, Board member and Secretary of the Luxembourgish Oldtimer Federation.
Sponsors
The muscle behind the record
They talked about us
News
Watch the teaser
Listen to the girls explain their record attempt on l’essentiel Radio
(Video in French below)
Watch our car getting its battle colours.
