SPAIN - CANNONBALL INT. ZEV RUN

International electric car endurance challenges, Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Norway .......

 

 

Dom de Luise Captain Chaos

 

Dom de Luise (Captain Chaos) would toast these Cannonball events

 

 

The Spanish Cannonball Run begins in Girona in the eastern tip of Spain, heading west, the suggested road trip route takes in a number of historic locations en-route to Huelva, including Barcelona and Madrid. We will also recognize the same start and end locations using a coastal route that is roughly 200kms longer - or any similar alternatives that are necessary to encompass suitable charging locations.

 

Spain is developing sustainable policies that include 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.

 

 

Spanish Cannonball Run Madrid route map 

 

Map of the Spanish Cannonball International ZEV Runs. [Left] Inland route incorporating a visit to Madrid and [Right] the coastal route incorporating a visit to Valencia. Both routes are valid as Cannonball International events.

 

 

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.

 

 

Cannonball EV Runs - International events designed to promote EV infrastructure

 

Make sure that you read the EV runners road rules before entering your team. 

 

 

GIRONA - HUELVA:  THE SPANISH INLAND CANNONBALL ZEV RUN STOPS* 50mph

 

START

GIRONA

NORTH

KMS

MILES

HOURS*

1st STOP

Barcelona

105

105

65

1.30

2nd STOP

Zaragoza

318

423

263

5.26

3rd STOP

Madrid

317

740

460

9.20

4th STOP

Córdoba

414 (257)

1,154

717

14.23

5th STOP

Seville

139

1,293

803

16.06

FINISH

HUELVA

SOUTH

1,386

862

17.27

 

 

 

GIRONA - HUELVA:  THE SPANISH COASTAL CANNONBALL ZEV RUN STOPS* 50mph

 

START

GIRONA

EAST

KMS

MILES

HOURS*

1st STOP

Barcelona

105

105

65

1.30

2nd STOP

Valencia

351

456

283

5.65

3rd STOP

Alicante

166

622

387

7.74

4th STOP

Cartagena

127

749

465

9.30

5th STOP

Almería

190

939

583

11.66

6th STOP

Málaga

206

1,145

711

14.22

7th STOP

Jerez

228

1,373

852

17.04

8th STOP

Seville

92

1,465

910

18.20

FINISH

HUELVA

WEST

1,558

969

19.38

 

 

GOOGLE SUGGESTED ROUTE - Driving directions  30 HR target with cartridge exchange and 50 hours with fast charging (This route has tolls)


Girona - Spain


Get on E-15/AP-7 from Carrer Barcelona and C-65
6.6 km / 10 min
Continue on E-15/AP-7 to Barcelona. Take exit 21 from Ronda Litoral
97.2 km / 55 min
Drive to Carrer de la Canuda
1.7 km / 7 min
105 km / 1 h 12 min


Barcelona - Spain


Get on Ronda Litoral from Via Laietana, Passeig de Colom and Passeig de Josep Carner/Passeig Josep Carner
3.3 km / 6 min
Take C-32 and E-15/AP-7 to Av. de Catalunya in València
344 km / 2 h 59 min
Continue on Av. de Catalunya. Take Av. d'Aragó and Gran Via del Marqués del Túria to Plaça de l'Ajuntament
4.3 km / 7 min
351 km / 3 h 12 min

Valencia - Spain


Take Carrer d'Alacant and Carrer de les Filipines to Av. d'Ausiàs March/V-31
3.1 km / 6 min
Drive along E-15/AP-7. Take exit 6 from A-70
169 km / 1 h 29 min
Take N-332 to your destination in Alacant
6.2 km / 8 min
179 km / 1 h 43 min

Alicante - Spain


Get on A-70 from Av. Aguilera, Av. Orihuela and Ctra. Ocaña
5.2 km / 9 min
Drive from AP-7 to Región de Murcia. Take exit 185 from A-30
116 km / 1 h 5 min
Follow RM-F36 to Calle del Hospital in Cartagena
4.3 km / 6 min
126 km / 1 h 20 min

Cartagena Murcia, Spain


Drive along Calle del Hospital, Ctra. Media Sala, RM-36 and RM-332
4.1 km / 7 min
Follow E-15/AP-7 and A-7 to Andalucía. Take exit 460 from E-15/A-7
171 km / 1 h 33 min
Take N-349 and N-344 to Calle Reina Regente/N-340a in Almería
14.2 km / 14 min
190 km / 1 h 54 min

Almería - Spain


Get on Autovía del Mediterráneo/E-15/A-7 from N-340a and Exit 439a
4.4 km / 5 min
Merge onto Autovía del Mediterráneo/E-15/A-7
64.0 km / 37 min
Continue to A-7
31.6 km / 27 min
Continue to Autovía del Mediterráneo/A-7
11.0 km / 8 min
Get on E-15/A-7
18.0 km / 16 min
Follow E-15/A-7. Take exit 243 from E-15/A-7
72.7 km / 44 min
Take Av. de los Pascueros/Av. Pascueros, Av. de Guerrero Strachan/Av. Guerrero Strachan, Calle Emilio Díaz, Paseo Martiricos and Av. Fátima to Calle Nosquera in Málaga
4.4 km / 8 min
206 km / 2 h 23 min

Málaga - Spain


Get on MA-20 from Paseo Parque and Av. Andalucía/Av. de Andalucía
6.6 km / 10 min
Drive along AP-7 and A-381
216 km / 2 h 1 min
Take Ctra. Jerez Algeciras and Av. de Medina Sidonia to Av. de Arcos/Av. de la Universidad in Jerez
5.9 km / 8 min
228 km / 2 h 19 min

Jerez Cádiz, Spain


Get on E-5/AP-4 from Av. de Arcos/Av. de la Universidad and Ctra. Con A4
6.5 km / 9 min
Continue on E-5/AP-4 to Sevilla. Take the SE-30/E-803 exit from E-5/A-4
78.8 km / 41 min
Take Av. de la Raza and Paseo de las Delicias/Paseo las Delicias to Av. de Menéndez Pelayo
5.9 km / 10 min
91.3 km / 1 h


Seville
Sevilla, Spain


Take Av. de Menéndez Pelayo, Av. de María Luisa, Paseo de las Delicias/Paseo las Delicias, Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, ... and Calle Odiel to E-1/A-49
5.4 km / 8 min
Follow E-1/A-49 to Av. Andalucía in Huelva
85.3 km / 46 min
Follow Av. Andalucía to Calle San Sebastián
2.1 km / 4 min
Continue onto Av. Andalucía
Go through 3 roundabouts
1.9 km
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Calle San Sebastián
210 m
92.7 km / 58 min


Huelva - Spain

 

 

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 - Pyramid Special

France - Calais to Toulon

Germany - Bremerhaven to Munich

India - Amritsar to Nagercoil

Italy - Turin to Reggio Calabria

Japan - Aomori to Kagoshima

Korean TechCity - 

New Zealand -

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

 

 

 

 

 

Female environmental lobbyists strut their stuff - point well made ladies and we love the gull wing doors on that red Mercedes.

 

 

FORBES 2014

 

On the same week that Tesla shows off its cross-country “cannonball run,” (aiming to break the transcontinental record for driving an EV from the left to right shore of the U.S. in three days), bad earnings and production news comes from the oil patch.  This could be really good news for Tesla and its competitors, among them, the Chevy Volt, the Nissan Leaf, and the forthcoming BMW i3.  The more expensive oil gets, the more marginally attractive EVs become.

 

Fourth quarter earnings are out from Shell and Exxon Mobile and they confirm a trend many have pointed to for a long time: the hydrocarbons may still be there, but they are getting more and more expensive to recover. Both Shell and Exxon pointed to declining output, while at the same time bearing enormous investment burdens (Shell’s 2013 capital spending exceeded $44 bn).

 

Shell’s fourth quarter revenues declined from $7.3 bn to $2.2bn. At the same time, the company took a major torpedo to the bow with its Arctic mishaps, which to date have cost them over $5bn while yielding nothing. The company has also allocated over $30 bn to a project in Kazakhstan which is eight years behind schedule. To worsen the situation, Shell reported a 6% drop in oil production. Annual earnings were down 23% below 2012.

 

Exxon Mobil fared somewhat better, seeing its earnings decline from $9.95 bn to $8.35 bn, but annual earnings were down 27%. Production of oil and gas was down 1.8% from the prior year, a trend that has continued in seven of their last eight quarters.

 

The two majors are not the only companies forced to spend huge amounts of money to develop difficult oil and gas fields across the planet. Fracking notwithstanding, the easy stuff is pretty much gone. Today’s projects typically involve billions of dollars of riskier investments at higher costs, and the potential for enormous cost overruns. OilPrice.com cites the example of Italian oil company ENI which currently forecasts a $50 bn investment in Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field – a five-fold increase over initial numbers.

 

If one looks southward to Latin America, the example of Petrobras shows similar echoes.  The company has incurred over $100 bn in debt to develop the gigantic offshore Lula field.  To get to the oil, companies will have to function a mile below the ocean, and drill another two miles to get to the reserves. It’s technologically risky (does anybody remember BP) and super expensive, with the potential for brutal cost overruns. 

All of which suggests that marginal costs for the production of oil will continue to rise.  In the meantime, electric rates are also not without price pressures. The question will be by how much rates increase over time, and whether the current advantage in ‘fueling costs’ enjoyed by EVs will continue to grow. The DOE currently shows an ‘eGallon’ (the cost for the equivalent energy of a gallon of gasoline) at $1.21, compared with an average price of $3.33 for a gallon of gas. Electricity rates would have to rise much faster than gasoline for electrons to lose their economic advantage. Even if electricity were to shoot up by 50% (an additional $.61 per eGallon) while oil increased by only 25% (an additional $.83), there would still be a marginal economic gain for an EV.

 

But that kind of mismatch is unlikely to occur. With relatively cheap U.S. natural gas-fired generation, and renewables continuing to rapidly decline in cost, there’s a very good chance that the relative cost benefits of fueling an EV will continue to increase significantly. And while fuel is only a small part of the entire cost equation, that’s a great trend to help spur along the adoption of electric vehicles. Tesla’s voyage may be pioneering today: it will be commonplace tomorrow.

 

 

Ben Stiller  Brad Pitt

 

 

METRO CANNONBALL RUN MOVIE REMAKE OCT 2011

 

The 1980s caper movie The Cannonball Run is set to get the remake treatment – with two directors vying to bring their version to the big screen. Cannonball Run remake attracts rival bids from Guy Ritchie and Shawn Levy

Director Guy Ritchie is reportedly linked to a remake of the film, which was originally made in 1981, and is set to receive a funding boost from General Motors. The Snatch director’s version of the film would star Brad Pitt and be produced by Warner Bros.

However Total Film reports that another director, Real Steel’s Shawn Levy, has also expressed interest in getting his hands on the project – and his version of the film would reunite him with his Night at the Museum leading man Ben Stiller.

The original version of The Cannonball Run focused on an illegal cross-country car race, and the eccentric participants who would go to any lengths to win, similar to the road race movie Monte Carlo or Bust, and other similar themes.

It starred a host of big names including Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise and Dean Martin, and was a big hit at the box office when it was first released. Reynolds, DeLuise and Martin returned for a less successful sequel in 1984.

 

 

 

LINKS & REFERENCE

 

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