Instead of having a full gas tank, participating vehicles were fully charged and they were ready to go.
The project was run by non-profit Launch Alaska to show the capabilities of electric vehicles in Alaska. “We want to bring awareness around electric vehicles, hopefully increasing adoption of electric vehicles, is kind of our second outcome there, and then, really, some of the learnings here around how do we deal with charging in remote or isolated locations,” Leach explained.
Rob Roys, Chief Innovation Officer with Launch Alaska, said, “It was a really long, pretty exhausting journey, but it took a lot of planning and a lot of effort by the team. Now that we’re here, it just feels absolutely amazing that we’ve made it.” These vehicles came from a variety of brands and models, including Rivien and Hummer. Said Leach, “We have roughly half of those that are Teslas, so we’ve got Model X, Model Y, Model 3 and Model S, and then we’ve got the other half or so really on the trucks that have just recently come out. So that includes the Ford F-150 Lightning.”
The solution, proponents argue, is to space charging stations closer together, and efforts are in the works to install a series of these stations in Alaska. The corridor between Anchorage and Fairbanks will be prioritized first, with other portions of the state expected to follow.
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