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1200km Recycled Electric Vehicle

Insights November 9th, 2017
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Eric Lundgren and his team from IT Asset Partners Inc. (ITAP) has built an electric vehicle (EV) capable of traveling 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) on a single battery charge.

The recycled BMW (aka The Phoenix) was:

  • Built at a cost a total of USD$13K
  • Built in (40) days
  • Manufactured from 90% Consumer Waste.

On 7th July 2017 the car drove 1,204kms on a single charge.
They set the World Record driving four days without charging from Bakersfield to The Capital, to Tesla HQ and Apple HQ, IFixIT HQ, and Back.
They say that they built this car for Elon Musk, to prove that he was right per 1,000km being capable in 2017.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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