CHINA - CANNONBALL INT. ZEV RUN

International electric car endurance challenges, India, Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, Russia, South Africa, UK, USA

 

 

Xie Zhenhua at the COP21 climate change talks in Paris, France

 

As Beijing declared its first “red alert” for heavy smog in December 2015, closing schools and curbing car use, Chinese negotiators at the UN talks in Paris are being accused of trying to weaken the new global climate accord due to be finalized by Friday.

 

“It is very frustrating,” said one negotiator from a developed country after a meeting where he said Chinese officials had tried to water down efforts to create a common system for the way countries report to the UN on their carbon dioxide emissions and climate change plans.

 

China accounts for 27 per cent of carbon emissions and India is the fourth biggest emitter with just over 7 per cent of the global total. A public war of words intensified on Tuesday over another fraught reporting issue in the talks: a 2009 pledge wealthy countries made to deliver $100bn a year by 2020 to help developing countries deal with climate change.

 

Prakash Javadekar, India’s environment minister, told reporters developed countries “have not made much headway” towards the target and questioned a recent OECD study that concluded as much as $62bn in funding from public and private sources was delivered in 2014.

 

 

The Trans-China Cannonball ZEV Run is one of the longest road trips through arduous wilderness. Some of the distances between stopping points are over 200 miles, though you can of course make more stops to reduce the distance to 100 miles, etc. In addition, there are few fast charge points at the logical geographical recharging locations, which will mean significant time delays for vehicles that do not have a means to refuel other than mains electricity charging. Because of this the Trans-China scores high on the Cannonball International points system - compared to a trip across France or Japan.

 

China is rapidly developing renewable resources from wind and solar electricity that will ultimately benefit a change to a sustainable all electric economy for both economic reasons, the health of the nation and as a means to curb changing weather patterns.

 

 

Cannonball ZEV Run - International green eventing

 

Map of the Trans-China Cannonball International ZEV Run, one of the longest @ 3,925 kilometers of clean motoring adventure.

 

 

CANNONBALL INTERNATIONAL EV SERIES

 

The Cannonball International EV Run™ series is for battery or hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles that are based on ordinary production vehicle running gear and must be capable of carrying at least one passenger. They may be solar assisted, provided that the solar panel area does not exceed four square meters - a rule that may be relaxed in subsequent years as we learn from experience. See the full Cannonball EV rules HERE.

 

These rules are designed to promote the development of an international EV infrastructure, as a means of accelerating the transition from IC engines to clean electric motors, especially in countries that do not have abundant sunshine, where support for non-solar assisted electric vehicles is all the more important.

 

An event for adventure capitalists

 

Cannonball EV Runs - International events designed to promote EV infrastructure

 

It's about time we had an EV compatible with battery or hydrogen fuel cell technology. The Ecostar DC50 by Bluebird Marine Systems Ltd may well be the vehicle that changes all that from 2015.

 

 

AI HUI QU  -  SHENZEN:  TRANS-CHINA CANNONBALL ZEV RUN STOPS* 50mph

 

START

AI HUI QU

HEILONGJIANG

KMS

MILES

HOURS*

1st STOP

Bei'an, Heihe, 

Heilongjiang

265

165

3.30

2nd STOP

Suihua

Heilongjiang

468

291

5.82

3rd STOP

Harbin

Heilongjiang

569

353

7.06

4th STOP

Dehui

Jilin

746

463

9.26

5th STOP

Changchun

Jilin

844

524

10.48

6th STOP

Siping

Jilin

948

589

11.78

7th STOP

Shenyang

Liaoning

1,121

696

13.92

8th STOP

Huludao, 

Liaoning

1,386

861

17.22

9th STOP

Qinhuangdao

Hebei

1,521

945

18.90

10th STOP

Tianjin

Tianjin

1,786

1,109

22.18

11th STOP

Chu'anzhen, Cangzhou

Hebei

1,919

1,192

23.84

12th STOP

Hengshui

Hebei

2,034

1,263

25.26

13th STOP

Puyang

Henan

2,288

1,421

28.42

14th STOP

Zhoukou

Henan

2,536

1,575

31.50

15th STOP

Xinyang

Henan

2,723

1,691

33.82

16th STOP

Huangshi

Hubei

2,949

1,831

36.62

17th STOP

Xiushui, Jiujiang

Jiangxi

3,113

1,934

38.68

18th STOP

Xinyu

Jiangxi

3,265

2,028

40.65

19th STOP

Ganzhou

Jiangxi

3,512

2,182

43.64

20th STOP

Dingnan

Jiangxi

3,630

2,255

45.10

21st STOP

Heyuan

Guangdong

3,754

2,332

46.64

22nd STOP

Huizhou

Guangdong

3,835

2,383

47.66

FINISH

SHENZEN

GUANGDONG

3,925

2,438

49.00

 

 

 

GOOGLE SUGGESTED ROUTE - Driving directions  60 HR TARGET  (This route has tolls)

 

Ai Hui Qu - Heilongjiang

 

Shenzhen - Guangdong

 

 

  

 

 

BEIJING AIR POLLUTION

 

There are many theories on how China could best tackle its air pollution problem: it could shutter its factories, upgrade its emissions standards or, according to one Dutch artist, it could simply suck up the haze using a giant electromagnetic vacuum cleaner.

 

When winter descends upon China, with it come thick clouds of smog. In October 2013 officials shut down schools and major roads in the northeast city of Harbin after air pollution there reached dangerously high levels. For days, the city and its 11 million inhabitants 
were at a standstill; streets were desolate, businesses were closed, and visibility dwindled to just 65 feet. At the height of the crisis, pollution levels were more than 30 times the limit considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

The smog has since subsided in Harbin, but the outbreak has revived longstanding debates across China, where rapid economic growth and a lingering dependence on coal have combined to deteriorate air quality at alarming rates. The government has made moves to address the issue with new regulations and emergency plans, but do these stand a chance of working.

 

Yet for all the promise that recent innovations may hold, experts say China's smog issues demand more drastic government action, pointing to the increasingly severe crises that the country has seen in recent years. In January, pollution levels in Beijing quite literally broke the scale, exceeding the index that the US embassy uses to monitor air quality. And recent research suggests that people in some regions are already starting to feel its effects.

 

A study published in July 2013 found that over the past two decades, coal pollution in northern China has cut life expectancy there by at least five years. On average, people living in the country’s southern regions live about 3.5 years longer than their northern counterparts, the paper reported. According to a study published in April, China's air pollution led to an estimated 1.2 million premature deaths in 2010 alone.

 

Pollution from electricity-producing coal plants are seen as the primary driver behind China's smog, which is why the country's colder northern regions see worse outbreaks during the winter, when people begin heating their homes. Although the government has made renewable energy a long-term priority, coal still provides an estimated 70 percent of China’s electricity. According to recent data from the US Energy Information Administration, China continues to burn nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined.

The Verge 2013 Daan Roosegaarde vacuum looks to sweep away china smog in beijing

 

 

 

 

CANNONBALL INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL ROUTES

 

Arabia - Jeddah to Dubai

Australia - Darwin to Adelaide

Brazil - Boa Vista to Rio de Janeiro

Canada - Vancouver to Quebec

China - Ai Hui Qu to Shenzen

Denmark - Skagen to Copenhagen

Egypt - Kings Valley Rally - Aswan to Alexandria

France - Calais to Toulon

Germany - Bremerhaven to Munich

India - Amritsar to Nagercoil

Italy - Turin to Reggio Calabria

Japan - Aomori to Kagoshima

Korean S. Smart City Rally - Seoul to Busan

New Zealand - Nelson to Invercargill

Nigeria - Maiduguri to Lagos

Norway

Russia - Murmansk to Bolshoy Sochi

South Africa - Cape Town to Louis Trichardt

Spain - Girona to Huelva

Sweden - Karlsborg to Gothenburg

UK - John o'Groats to Lands End (Jogle)

USA - Los Angeles to New York

 

 

 

 

LINKS:

 

http://www.mile-to-km.com/km-to-miles.php

http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/

http://www.discovery-campervans.com.au/adelaidedarwin.php

http://www.familyonabike.org/other%20info%20pages/awards.html

http://www.endtoenders.co.uk/

https://maps.google.com/

http://www.who.int/en/

VAUXHALL AMPERA endurance ev attempt 2010_ampera_e-revs

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_27-5-2010-12-26-15

http://www.formaplex.com/news/formaplex-launches-electric-car-world-record-attempt/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/racing-green-endurance-srzero-electric-car-to-make-16-000-mile-t/

http://www.rideacrossbritain.com/packages/end-to-end/

http://www.discoveradventure.com/challenges/land-s-end-to-john-o-groats-cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%27s_End_to_John_o%27_Groats

 

 

 

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