2018-07-21
A New Lithuanian record: 1000 km by Electromobile in 21 h 33 min
Aidas Bubinas, Valdas Jarutis, Vitoldas Milius and Yogendra Pratap finished on Saturday in Palanga. They all broke the record by driving with “Kia Soul EV” 1000 km in 21 h 33 min. They have started on Friday afternoon and spend less than an a day driving the main cities of Lithuania.
V. Milius states that it is far more complicated to drive around in electromobile than a diesel car. According to him, this example shows that it is possible to reach a long destination by environmentally friendly transport.
Plan: Stopping at Every 150 km
The crew of four people began their journey at 16 o’clock on Friday from Palanga to Klaipėda where they charged the batteries of the car. After that, the travellers drove through other Lithuanian cities. A. Bubinas explained that the route was planned in a way that they could stop at every 150 km distance. Yet if they did not use any air conditioning system and other comfort features, they could reach even farther distances.
Their destination was: from Šiauliai to Kūrėnai, Molėtai to Vilnius, Trakai to Elektrėnai, Kaunas to Jonava and Kėdainiai, again Klaipėda to Ventė and they moved towards Palanga. However, the real route differed from the planned one due to the lack of charging batteries. The density of electric charging stops is growing in Lithuania.
Obeying Speeding Limits
The travellers claim that anybody can freely drive with electromobile. Yet it is important to plan the route of charging stops. Although it is impossible to foresee the busyness of stops. The drivers say that they were lucky since there were no queues. According to V. Milius, electric cars are evolving rapidly, thus it is important to keep up with infrastructure. Travellers did not stop only for a recharge, they stopped at the famous Cathedral, Vilnius pipe, the sculpture of Vytis in Kaunas and other well-known places. V. Milius joked that it does not matter what the time record would have been because they will be the first to accomplish 1000 km by an electromobile in Lithuania.
The electromobile’s journey can be watched in the “Ruptela” real time monitoring system “TrustTrack”. Link to the system: https://track2.ruptela.com/#/login. Login name: EV0820, password: 9592EV0820