Hi everyone, I’m Andrew Yi Zong, the captain of the Chinese team for the “80-day Pure Electric Vehicle Global Tour.” We urgently need your help.
On June 16, 2016, Rafael from Spain and I started the “80-day Pure Electric Vehicle Global Tour,” departing from Barcelona with 11 teams and traveling across 19 countries. We’re sprinting to set the world’s first record of a group of electric vehicles traveling around the world in just 80 days.
Now, me and my team members from China are still on the road, having completed the first leg from Barcelona to Lisbon on the “80-day Pure Electric Vehicle Global Tour.”
The journey has been much tougher than I imagined. Currently, we can only sleep for about 3 hours per day, mainly because our Chinese-made electric vehicles can only be charged by finding public three-phase power sources using portable charging piles at night. (The 10 international teams are using Tesla, which can use European charging facilities. Knowing that we may encounter compatibility problems, we still firmly chose the Chinese-made DENZA electric vehicles. You know why we insist on doing this.)
Nighttime charging of DENZA electric vehicles on the “80-day Pure Electric Vehicle Global Tour”
The hardships of the journey are far beyond my imagination. We need your help, especially from friends in Canada and the United States. We will face even greater challenges during the following legs in Canada and the United States. This time, all the international teams are facing a tricky problem – nine European teams and one Chinese team cannot use the charging piles in Canada and the United States due to the incompatibility of communication protocols.
At this point, I would like to ask for your help. Specifically, I need a three-phase power source (380-400V, 32A, 20KW). Additionally, our teammates who have lost their passports need assistance from the embassies along the way (currently in Canada, the United States, and later in Kazakhstan, Russia, and the Schengen area) in order to clear customs smoothly.
Assistance needed:
- Three-phase power source (380-400V, 32A, 20KW)
- Assistance from embassies for lost passports during the journey.1. Three-phase power supply (380-400V, 32A, 20KW)
- Assistance with customs clearance and embassy services in various countries
Visa application and customs clearance assistance is currently available in Canada (2016-06-20——2016-06-24) and the United States (2016-06-24——2016-07-10), and will be provided in Kazakhstan, Russia, and the Schengen area in the future.
Friends who can provide assistance can contact me through the following methods:
Daniel WeChat (team): GDY920229
Daniel phone number: +8613632108810
Direct message on Weibo: @芬尼宗毅
Facebook: andrew.phnix@gmail.com
We hope that the issues we are discussing can become a global effort.
We hope that everyone can help us by sharing our difficulties on international social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, so that strangers who are able to help can find us and assist not only us, but also the entire international team!
Attached is the Canada leg of our route. Thank you in advance for your help!
Route in Canada
This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.