Geneva Motor Show - Zurich to Geneva on Friday, 9th of March 2012

[Kipernicus]

And just in case you wanted to do it a little quicker than Kevin's 2 week trip, here's what a sensible but fast route might look like...

David this is a cool map! How did you make it? I would love to see trip planners work like this!

 

[dpeilow]

Google Maps and MS Paint

 

[dpeilow]

Shame Kevin couldn't make a small diversion to take in the World's biggest wind turbines Pilot Demonstration of Eleven 7MW-Class WEC at Estinnes in Belgium: Project Status (forgot to suggest it)

Amazing engineering.


Next time...

 

[PV4EV]

Shame Kevin couldn't make a small diversion to take in the World's biggest wind turbines Pilot Demonstration of Eleven 7MW-Class WEC at Estinnes in Belgium: Project Status (forgot to suggest it)

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Amazing engineering.


Next time...

The pic doesn't do their immense size justice ... those particular turbines are a whopping 650 ft tall (650 !) with a total weight of about 6,000 tons EACH.

To put that in perspective, their height equals the 3rd highest "skyscraper" in London, or about 50 floors worth.


Although 2,500 tons of concrete needed for each foundations doesn't sound very green..

 

[dpeilow]

The pic doesn't do their immense size justice ... those particular turbines are a whopping 650 ft tall (650 !) with a total weight of about 6,000 tons EACH.

To put that in perspective, their height equals the 3rd highest "skyscraper" in London, or about 50 floors worth.


Although 2,500 tons of concrete needed for each foundations doesn't sound very green..

This photo was taken from 6km (~4m) away!




Some great shots from a paramotor here: Tout sur moi et ma passion (5 sets linked at the top of the page)

 

[mgemmell]

I gotta get you guys some snaps of the wind farms down here. They are immense! Mind you, 34% of electricity in Spain is from renewables.

 

[Marlot]

I grabbed photographic proof of this mythical Roadster

Who knows how old is the battery of this mythical Roadster ?

 

[VolkerP]

There was a problem with the battery pack in this roadster at 40,000km (=24,000) miles and Tesla chose to replace it. You can PM Eberhard, he frequently switches cars with Hans-Jörg and drives this very Roadster (=their solution for range extension/quick charge/battery replacement)

 

[Talkredius]

And just in case you wanted to do it a little quicker than Kevin's 2 week trip, here's what a sensible but fast route might look like...

For the trip from Endingen to Zurich I would suggest a slightly different route. It is shorter and more fun while driving through the black forest instead of driving on the dumb Autobahn.

I 've attached a kml file, starting point is Endingen, destination Zurich. If you want to use this route, there a several ways to put this route into the Alpine navigation system.

a) via Laptop , but you have to have a USB cable installed and connected to the navigation system. If have written a detailed how-to for the German Tesla forum. If you like to have it in English, just send me a PM an I'll translate it

Tesla-Fahrer und -Freunde Forum Thema anzeigen - Alpine Navigationsgerät NVE-M300P

b) choose Zurich as your destination, extract the GPS coordinates from the kml-file put them into the Alpine Navi as stopovers by hand

And if you are familiar with C&S ( charge and sleep (in your car ) ) you can rest at the Grand Dolder for only 2 CHF / hour:biggrin:

have fun

 

[Talkredius]

I grabbed photographic proof of this mythical Roadster

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This mystical Roadster crossed already the 200.000 km line:biggrin::biggrin:

Another 4...5 German Roadster will cross the 100.000 km line this year, probably starting with mine in May/June

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

 

[TRON]

Here an other video of the invasion to Geneva 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQa2wgPLygQ

 

[jcstp]

When is the movie-launch? :biggrin: