A husband-and-wife team will travel almost 17,000 miles between the North and South Poles in a Nissan EV.
electric crossover will journey from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an attempt to prove the capabilities of EVs.
The 16,777-mile, 10-month trip is expected to kick off in March, Nissan announced on Wednesday. Modifications to the Ariya include 39-inch BF Goodrich tires, widened wheel arches , and suspension changes, but the powertrain and battery pack were left unmodified. The Ariya will be driven from Pole to Pole by the husband-and-wife team of Chris and Julie Ramsey, who previously completed the 10,563-mile Mongol Rally. Aside from the bigger tires, they aimed to keep modifications to the Ariya to a minimum to show off the capability of the basic vehicle.
"One of the things that underpins all the adventures we do is that we take a standard production EV and aim to make minimal changes to clearly demonstrate its real, everyday capabilities, regardless of where you are driving it," Chris Ramsey said in a statement.A modification not related to capability was a built-in espresso machine for coffee-lover Chris.
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