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SRZero Visits Mexico On Pan-American Odyssey

18th August 2010

Radical’s SRZero electric prototype is well on its way down the Pan-American Highway, having this week covered the magical 10,000-kilometre mark in a landmark trip with Imperial College London’s Racing Green Endurance team.

Unveiled back at the Autosport International Show in January, the journey-now in its 45th day after leaving Anchorage in Alaska- has reached Mexico City, where the team visited Radical Mexico’s Tomas Contreras Ambrosi  to restock spare parts, and visit Radical Mexico’s new sales and technical facility. As you can see, this extensive workshop and showroom is still in construction, but is expected to open in only a few weeks time, the perfect showcase for the Radical range to Latin America.

Followed by Long Way Round film-maker Claudio von Planta, the car has been a crowd-puller in every town it has stopped, and with a range of up to 350 miles, has demonstrated that electrical propulsion can be a viable alternative to fossil fuels.  It hasn’t always been plain sailing; border bureaucracy, regular police inspections and late nights have been commonplace. However, the car has behaved faultlessly, two broken dampers the only issues after the equivalent of a year’s driving, on some of the world’s toughest and inhospitable roads.

The team’s aim is to reach Ushuaia, Argentina, in the first week of October; the team are only a couple of days behind schedule, with another 16,000 kilometres to cover. The journey can be followed online and on Twitter by clicking here.