Driving the Pan-American Highway – in an EV

Ten engineering students from Britain hope to tackle the Pan-American Highway — all 15,000 miles of it — in the last thing you’d think to do it in: an electric car. Not just any electric car, mind you, but one originally designed for racing. Racing Green Endurance, which consists entirely of students at Imperial College London, has converted a Radical SR8 to battery electric power. As if that weren’t impressive enough, they plan to spend three months driving it from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Tierra Del Fuego to show people that EVs can be quick, they can be cool and they can go the distance