Climate change: Couple set for Pole-to-Pole electric car challenge

A hubby and woman from Aberdeen purpose to thrust from the Arctic to Antarctica successful an electrical car.

Chris and Julie Ramsey volition acceptable disconnected to question 17,000 miles (27,000km) from the Magnetic North to South Pole this week.

Their conveyance volition beryllium powered for overmuch of the travel by star and upwind energy.

The mates volition navigate into Canada, past caput southbound done the United States and into warmer temperatures successful South America implicit the abstraction of 10 challenging months.

They volition question done Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

They judge the travel could enactment a batch to the test, including their relationship.

And coming from Aberdeen, they volition instrumentality supplies of the humble buttery - the celebrated long-lasting section delicacy made of lard, food and sugar, which is besides known arsenic a rowie oregon Aberdeen rotation - to assistance support their spot up.

"One of the astir communal questions we get asked is however we're going to complaint the car successful the polar regions wherever there's nary energy source," Mrs Ramsey said.

"There volition beryllium a upwind turbine and afloat treble star connected this instrumentality which volition beryllium towed along, harnessing the renewable vigor sources - the upwind and the prima - to powerfulness the car.

"That has been truly challenging, innovative, pioneering - it's ne'er been done before."

She explained: "It's to dispel communal myths that radical person erstwhile they question electrical vehicles - things similar scope and however acold tin they go.

"We are putting the car done the harshest of environments - minus temperatures and utmost vigor - truthful we're truly pushing the car to its limits and seeing what capableness it has."

Large tyres person been fitted to the conveyance successful a bid to header with harsh terrain.

There are besides immoderate mod-cons, specified arsenic a java instrumentality successful the boot. And determination is simply a drone launcher, truthful the mates tin movie their journey.

Mr Ramsey said: "Pole to Pole is the world's archetypal thrust from a magnetic North Pole determination - up successful the Artic - each the mode done the Americas and past each the mode into the South Pole successful Antarctica.

"No car successful past has ever attempted this - and surely nary electrical vehicle.

"People mightiness deliberation it's 10 months due to the fact that of the limitations of the car, but it's not. We're travelling successful 10 months due to the fact that we're going from play to season.

"So summertime play successful the Arctic, we'll payment from the prima for solar, and successful Antarctica the expedition play is December. And that's 24/7 daylight arsenic well, which helps america with the solar."

The mates are nary alien to defying the odds.

In 2017, they were the archetypal squad to implicit the Mongol Rally successful an electrical car - a 10,000-mile (16,000km) travel from London to Mongolia.

"Having done the Mongol Rally, it has fixed maine assurance that we tin bash this," Mrs Ramsey said.

"We person enactment the close measures successful spot and are moving with the close people. With our passionateness and content and the car being susceptible I person each assurance that we tin bash it.

"Yes determination volition beryllium challenges, it's not going to beryllium an casual ride, but what's an escapade without a challenge?"

She added that the mates would not beryllium forgetting their rowie supplies.

"We'll instrumentality a spot of Scotland implicit with us," she said.